Description
The main aims of this work was to determine the effects of ionize radiation (gamma and e-beam rays) on starch: PVA and Starch: PVA:CNC films. 3 different starches where used for this purpose; pre-irradiated corn and wheat starches and native wheat starch. The results obtained from this works shows that in terms of mechanical test, corn Starch had highest elongation at break whereas pre-irradiated wheat Starch films had the highest tensile strength. Moreover, the addition of CNC greatly improved the mechanical test and the used of ionizing radiation increases the mechanical test and reduces the swelling behaviour and gel fraction due to degradation caused by radiation. The TGA analysis show that they was crosslinking forms when these films were irradiated as different doses and as conclusion we can say that irradiation greatly improved the quality of these films
| Technical Track | Nuclear Applications and Radiation Processing |
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