Study of poli (e-caprolactone), poli (e-caprolactone)/starch blend and poli (e-caprolactone)/starch/coconut fiber biodegradated by fungi and bacteria / Estudo da biodegradação dos filmes de poli (e-caprolactona), da blenda poli (e-caprolactona)/amido e do composito poli (e-caprolactona)/amido/po de fibra de coco por fungos e bacterias

AUTOR(ES)

Livia Cordi

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

Hugh amount of plastic waste is discarded in the environment causing a growing imbalance. This situation leads to the development of new resistant and functional plastic materials to last during their useful life and biodegrade after it, in a short period of time. In order to minimize the quantity of polymers discarded in the environment, within a perspective of sustainable development and reducing environmental pollution, we studied the application of fungi and bacteria isolated from soil to reduce the time of degradation of polymers considered biodegradable. For this, a blend composed of Poly (e-caprolactone) and maize starch adipate and also a composite of Poly (e-caprolactone/maize starch adipate/powder fibers from coconut has been prepared and characterized, seeking thereby to obtain a material with a high rate of biodegradation. The characterization and monitoring of the degradation of the PCL film, the PCL/starch blend and the composite PCL/starch/coconut fiber was made by Visual Analysis, Mass Loss, Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy(NIR), Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA ), Electronic Scanning Microscopy (SEM), Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and Principal Components Analysis (PCA). The results obtained in 100 days for the biodegradation promoted by bacteria isolated from soil were 54% of weight loss for PCL/starch blend and 47% of weight loss for PCL film. The rate of biodegradation for the PCL, regardless of the fungus used is very low for the period of 60 days, not exceeding 5% of the weight loss. The fungus F. Moniliforme reduced the mass of PCL / starch blend to 22.5% in the same period in which the species F. oxysporum not presented more than 10% of weight loss for the same material. For the biodegradation of PCL / starch / coconut fiber composites, the results of weight loss indicate that the increase in the percentage of coconut fiber leads to an increase in the degradation rate

ASSUNTO(S)

biodegradation composite compositos polimericos polimeros - biodegradação starch biodegradable polymers blend amido blendas polimericas materiais biodegradaveis

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