STRUCTURAL INVESTIGATION OF SOME NATIVE BIODEGRADABLE PACKAGING MATERIALS

Onuc COZAR; Nicolae  CIOICA; Elena Mihaela NAGY; Constantin COŢA; Radu FECHETE; Claudiu FILIP

doi:10.24193/subbambientum.2017.2.02

Authors

Onuc COZAR Babes-Bolyai University, Dept. of Physics, Kogalniceanu 1, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. *Corresponding author: onuc.cozar@phys.ubbcluj.ro
Nicolae CIOICA National Institute of Research-Development for Machines and Installations Designed to Agriculture and Food Industry – INMA Bucureşti – Cluj-Napoca Branch, RO-400458 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Elena Mihaela NAGY National Institute of Research-Development for Machines and Installations Designed to Agriculture and Food Industry – INMA Bucureşti – Cluj-Napoca Branch, RO-400458 Cluj-Napoca, Romania. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8909-9160
Constantin COŢA National Institute of Research-Development for Machines and Installations Designed to Agriculture and Food Industry – INMA Bucureşti – Cluj-Napoca Branch, RO-400458 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Radu FECHETE Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Dept. of Physics, RO-Cluj-Napoca, Romania. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1989-0253
Claudiu FILIP National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, Donath no. 71-103, P.O. 700, 400293, Cluj-Napoca, Romania https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0737-5791

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbambientum.2017.2.02

Keywords:

starch, plasticizers, IR, Raman, NMR.

Abstract

The IR, Raman and NMR methods are used to investigate the structural effects of water and glycerol (plasticizers) on biodegradable packaging materials proceeding from native corn starch. The IR and Raman methods not give a clear response on the amorphous/crystalline content in the investigated starch samples because the origin of vibrational bands is in the same atomic groups of the major starch components (amylose, amylopectin). The nuclear magnetic relaxation data show that the amorphous/crystalline ratio depends not only by the amylose/amylopectin content but also of the mobility and the place of theirs polymer chain segments. The shapes of ¹³C CP/MAS NMR spectra show clearly the presence of A, B, V-types crystalline structures and also amorphous phase which prevails with the increasing of plasticizers content and also in the extruded starch samples. The composition having starch/glycerol/water 68/17/15 mass % ratio was found to have a dominant amorphous character and very similar features with a commercial specimen (USA) used for the package. It was also found that this best package is extremely degraded after just one day under water absorption.

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