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This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article that has been published in its final definitive form by Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020.
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Recently, the utilization of starch to replace synthetic polymers for the manufacture of green materials has gained extensive interest, due to its renewability, biodegradability, abundance and low cost. On the other hand, ionic liquids (ILs) have been widely recognized as promising “green solvents” to replace volatile organic solvents for polysaccharide processing. Over the past few years, ILs have been increasingly demonstrated to serve as excellent media for the dissolution, plasticization and derivatization of starch. This allows the synthesis of chemically modified starches with high degree of substitution (DS) and the development of various starch-based materials such as thermoplastic starch, composite films, solid polymer electrolytes, nanoparticles and drug carriers. The main objective of this review is to present an overview of the roles of ILs in starch dissolution, gelatinization, modification and plasticization, and their industrial applications. Moreover, this review is intended to provide a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms behind the IL-processing of starch and to provide insights into the rational development of novel starch-based materials with ILs.
Author(s): Ren F, Wang J, Xie F, Zan K, Wang S, Wang S
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Green Chemistry
Year: 2020
Volume: 22
Issue: 7
Pages: 2162-2183
Print publication date: 07/04/2020
Online publication date: 07/02/2020
Acceptance date: 06/02/2020
Date deposited: 23/05/2023
ISSN (electronic): 1463-9270
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
URL: https://doi.org/10.1039/C9GC03738A
DOI: 10.1039/C9GC03738A
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