Concepedia

Recent progress in chemical modification of starch and its applications

Qing Chen, Haojie Yu, Li Wang, Zain ul Abdin, Yongsheng Chen, Junhua Wang, Weidong Zhou, Xianpeng Yang, Rizwan Ullah Khan, Hongtao Zhang

RSC Advances · 2015 · 270 citations · 165 references

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Abstract

Starch has received much attention as a promising natural material both in biomedical fields and waste water treatment due to its unique biological and adsorptive properties.

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Starch—composition, fine structure and architecture

Richard F. Tester, John Karkalas, Xin Qi · Journal of Cereal Science · 2004 · 1.7K citations

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Factors influencing the physico-chemical, morphological, thermal and rheological properties of some chemically modified starches for food applications—A review

Jaspreet Singh, Lovedeep Kaur, Owen J. McCarthy · Food Hydrocolloids · 2006 · 1.1K citations

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Thermo-sensitive polymeric micelles based on poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) as drug carriers

Hua Wei, Si‐Xue Cheng, Xian‐Zheng Zhang et al. · Progress in Polymer Science · 2009 · 712 citations

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Starch-based nano-biocomposites

Fengwei Xie, Éric Pollet, Peter J. Halley et al. · Progress in Polymer Science · 2013 · 536 citations

Heavy metals (Cd, Pb, Zn, Ni, Cu and Cr(III)) removal from water in Malaysia: Post treatment by high quality limestone

Hamidi Abdul Aziz, Mohd Nordin Adlan, Kamar Shah Ariffin · Bioresource Technology · 2007 · 527 citations

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