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AIM
INTRODUCTON
02 THEORY
03 REQUIREMENT
04 PROCEDURE
05 RESULT & CONCLUSION
06 BIBLIOGRAPHY
I would like to express my profound and appreciation to those who
helped me with this project, for their time expended and for sharing
their insights about the project.
I have been immeasurably enriched by working under the guidance
and supervision of DR MP GUPTA PGT CHEMISTRY, who has a great level
of knowledge and has an art of encouraging, Correcting and directing
me in every situation possible, which has enabled me to complete the
project. I would also like to thank all the people who have helped me in
this project and appreciate the available sources who provided me
with the research papers.
Aim: Making a plastic from starch
Introduction :
Plastic pollution is currently one of the biggest
environmental concerns. Synthetic Plastics are
made up of long chain of molecules (polymer)
containing repeated units of carbon atoms
(monomer). These Synthetic polymers has extremely
strong carbon-carbon bond with each other.
Because of this inherent molecular stability,
plastics do not breakdown into simpler components
easily.
So to find the alternative of this problem I made a
successful attempt to make a biodegradable plastic.
We say it Biodegradable because natural organisms
are capable of breaking the material down into
smaller parts. We use starch polymer(Amylose)
which is biodegradable in nature and hence
successfully converted to replacement of plastic.
Why we chose starch?
Starch is made of long chains of glucose molecules
joined together. Strictly, it contains two polymers:
amylose, which is straight chained, and amylopectin,
which is branched.
Glucose(simple sugar) is essential for life, that
being the reason many organisms from bacteria to
human break starch into simple sugar(glucose).