Biodegradation behavior of poly(lactic acid) (PLA)/Distiller's dried grains with solubles (DDGS) composites

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2699-2706

  Lu, Hong ^a   Madbouly, Samy A ^a,d   Schrader, James A ^b   Srinivasan, Gowrishankar ^a   Mccabe, Kenneth G ^b   Grewell, David ^a   Kessler, Michael R ^c   Graves, William R ^b  

^a Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Washington State University   (United States)

^d CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Biodegradation; Composites; DDGS; Horticulture industry; Poly(lactic acid)

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CHAIN LENGTH; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS; GLASS TRANSITION; LACTIC ACID; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MICROBIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

BIO-BASED MATERIALS; BIODEGRADATION EXPERIMENTS; BIODEGRADATION RATE; DDGS; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS (DMA); POLY LACTIC ACID; POLYLACTIC ACIDS; POLYMER CHAIN LENGTH;

BIODEGRADATION;

EID: 84928492297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sc500440q     Document Type: Article

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