Chinese Journal of Applied Chemistry ›› 1998, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (4): 101-103.

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Study on the Graft Copolymer of Starch and Methyl Acrylate Used as Biodegradable Plastics

Xu Xiaoqiu, Duan Menglin, Tang Demin, Feng Jianxin   

  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072
  • Received:1997-09-03 Revised:1998-02-09 Published:1998-08-10 Online:1998-08-10

Abstract: The graft copolymerization of starch and methyl acrylate(MA) in three differentreaction systems, MA-CH3OH-H2O, aqueous solution, emulsion system has been carriedout.The composition of the grafted PMA in copolymer and homopolymer PMA, the viscosity-average molecular weight of the graft copolymer, the graft efficiency and freqency and themicrostructure and mechanical property have been investigated.The biodegradable graftplastics with 60% starch was obtained.

Key words: starch, methyl acrylate, graft copolymer, biodegradable plastics