Virginia Nykänen and colleagues at Aalto University, Finland have transformed rice starch into a temporally stable, optically transparent, biodegradable plastic with a high degree of mechanical strength and good thermal resistance.
This important step towards bioplastics made from simple and sustainable resources has potential applications in food packaging and biomedical materials.
Read the full article here in Chemistry World.
This paper is free to access until 8 September, so download it now:
V P S Nykänen et al, Green Chemistry, 2014, DOI: 10.1039/c4gc00794h
