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Preliminary Studies on Converting Agricultural Waste into Biodegradable Plastics, Part I: Corn Distillers’ Dry Grain

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Distillers’ dry grain (DDG) was derivatized either by carboxymethylation, glutaration, maleiation, phthallation, or succination in order to produce anionic materials suitable for complexation with soy protein isolate. Infrared spectroscopy confirmed that derivatization of DDG by all reagents was successful. Blending of derivatized anionic products with soy protein resulted in instant precipitation of gels. The gels were centrifuged, molded, and dried into solid pellets with tensile strengths as high as 1.67MPa, suggesting that these materials could be promising as biodegradable structural materials. Infrared spectroscopy suggested the possibility of complexes forming between soy protein isolate and each of the derivatized DDG samples.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Saginaw Valley State University, 7400 Bay Road, University Center, MI, 48710, USA

    Christopher H. Schilling, Bruce Hart, Jagdeep Garcha & Paul T. Boettcher

  2. Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, Cracow, Poland

    Piotr Tomasik

  3. Department of Chemistry, Saginaw Valley State University, University Center, MI, 48710, USA

    David S. Karpovich

  4. Department of Biology, Saginaw Valley State University, University Center, MI, 48710, USA

    Sally Shepardson

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Schilling, C.H., Tomasik, P., Karpovich, D.S. et al. Preliminary Studies on Converting Agricultural Waste into Biodegradable Plastics, Part I: Corn Distillers’ Dry Grain. J Polym Environ 12, 257–264 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10924-004-8317-z

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