The disclosure provides a water-soluble film comprising a polyvinyl alcohol resin comprising a blend of polyvinyl alcohol polymers, a starch, and a plasticizer, wherein the water-soluble film is characterized by a matte to gloss coefficient of friction (COF) in a range of about 0.05 to about 3.0 and a haze at 100% strain in a range of about 0.5% to about 40%, and methods of preparing same.

The present disclosure describes a composite material and a method for making the composite material. The method includes mixing a copolymer binder with a thermoplastic biopolyester polymer (TBP) at a mixing temperature of 80-280° C. to create a polymer mixture; and mixing pyrolysized organic matter and an organic filler material with the polymer mixture to create the composite material. In an embodiment, the source of the pyrolysized organic matter is post-consumer food waste, and the mixing is performed by a shear mixer that is operated at 40-100 revolutions per minute (RPM). The composite material may comprise by weight at least 35% of a combination of the pyrolysized organic matter and the organic filler material.

The present disclosure discloses a starch-based fluffy particle, a preparation method and use thereof. The preparation method of the starch-based fluffy particle comprises the following steps of: (1) adding water into starch or modified starch for gelatinization to obtain a starch paste; (2) adding the starch paste into a polar organic solvent, stirring, standing and centrifuging to collecting a precipitate; and (3) freeze-drying, crushing and sieving the precipitate in sequence to prepare the starch-based fluffy particle. The starch-based fluffy particles are porous and fluffy with a large pore size, have excellent water absorption speed, water absorption rate and degradation rate, and can achieve the purpose of rapid and efficient hemostasis. Moreover, the starch-based fluffy particles are free of dispersing agent, emulsifying agent or cross-linking agent, have the characteristics of safety and reliability, and can meet the hemostatic requirement of in-vivo environment.

The present invention relates to a single-stage process for the production of starch blends in a twin-screw extruder or two twin-screw extruders arranged in series, where i) the starch, together with a plasticizer, passes through a wetting section of length 8D to 30D in an extruder or in a wetting section of length 8D to 80D if two extruders are used at temperatures below the gelatinization temperature of the starch, with mixing, where D is defined as the screw diameter of the screw cylinder and the wetting section is defined as starting at that point on the extruder screw at which the starch and the entire or partial quantity of plasticizer encounter one another and ending at that point in the extruder at which the starch is gelatinized and is digested to give thermoplastic starch; ii) in a plastifying section of length 10D to 50D the extruder temperature is adjusted stepwise to above 130° C., where the starch is digested, destructured and thermoplastified, and is dispersed in a starch-immiscible polymer, and a water content below 5%, based on the starch blend, is established before the material leaves the extruder; where the starch-immiscible polymer is added in molten or granular form at any desired point in the extruder, and a mixture of all of the components present is consequently produced.

A water-soluble film for packaging oxidizing agents including a polyvinyl alcohol resin and a plasticizer, the polyvinyl alcohol resin comprising about 70% to about 100% of a polyvinyl alcohol copolymer including a maleate unit, wherein (a) when the polyvinyl alcohol copolymer comprises less than 100% of the polyvinyl alcohol resin, the balance of the resin comprises a polyvinyl alcohol homopolymer; (b) when the polyvinyl alcohol copolymer comprises 100% of the polyvinyl alcohol resin and the film comprises a starch, the plasticizer comprises sorbitol and glycerol; and (c) when the polyvinyl alcohol resin comprises a blend of polyvinyl alcohol polymers and the polyvinyl alcohol copolymer is provided in an amount in a range of about 70% to about 90%, by weight, and the film comprises starch, then the film does not include sorbitol and/or glycerol; and the film is characterized by an elongation at break of at least about 25%.

This invention relates to a multilayer biodegradable film which is particularly suitable for the manufacture of packaging and is also characterised by appreciable optical transparency properties in addition to high level mechanical properties.

The present disclosure relates to a barrier composition comprising a modified or unmodified starch, a plasticizer, and an MFC, and to a method for producing the barrier composition and the use thereof, such as in a multi-layer structure comprising the barrier composition and a carrier layer. Methods for producing a multi-layer structure comprising a barrier composition are also disclosed, and can be applied in order to obtain an article that comprises the multi-layer structure.

The present invention provides water-soluble films for preparing beverages comprising one or more tea, herbal or fruit extracts and a water-soluble polymer. Methods of preparing water-soluble films for preparing a beverage comprising: (i) combining (a) one or more tea, herbal or fruit extracts, (b) a water-soluble polymer, and optionally, (c) a plasticizer, in water to form a tea, herbal or fruit extract composition; (b) optionally, heating the tea, herbal or fruit extract composition to a temperature in the range of about 25° C. to about 100° C.; (iii) forming a layer of the tea, herbal or fruit extract composition on a surface; and (iv) drying the layer of the tea, herbal or fruit extract composition to form a water-soluble film.

A method of forming a binder composition includes providing a urea-formaldehyde resin and combining one or more starch compounds with the urea-formaldehyde resin to form a starch modified urea-formaldehyde resin. The one or more starch compounds may be combined with the urea-formaldehyde resin so that the starch modified urea-formaldehyde resin includes about 1 wt. % to about 10 wt. % of the one or more starch compounds.

Trimmer line compositions and methods for forming trimmer line compositions are provided. The trimmer line compositions include a biodegradable toughening agent and polycaprolactone and advantageously increase the degradability of the trimmer line with minimal-to-no impact on the performance of the composition as trimmer line.