Abstract
The physicochemical properties such as swelling in polar and non-polar solvents, moisture resistance, chemical resistance, ability for gelatinization and the thermal properties along with the evolution of volatile decomposition products of some starch-g-copolymers obtained through the grafting of benzyl methacrylate monomer onto potato starch have been studied. The chemical structure of copolymers was confirmed using ATR–FTIR analysis. The prepared materials were characterized by completely different properties than unmodified potato starch due to the covalent bonding of poly(benzyl methacrylate) chains onto starch backbone. The copolymers were not able to gelate; however, they exhibited higher swelling in non-polar solvents, lower swelling in polar solvents and higher resistance toward moisture, acid and base conditions than unmodified potato starch. In addition, DSC analysis showed that T g of copolymers was shifted to a little higher values as compared to T g of poly(benzyl methacrylate). The thermal stabilities of copolymers and potato starch were comparable. Their decomposition took place in two main stages connected with the emission of various volatile decomposition products (CO2, CO, H2O, CH4, aldehydes, alcohols, furan derivatives, acids, benzyl methacrylate) in inert atmosphere as it was confirmed based on the simultaneous TG/DSC/FTIR analysis.
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Introduction
The modification of biopolymers is one of the most active fields of research which allows preparing novel, cheap and more environmentally friendly materials based on renewable resources. Among biopolymers, polysaccharides such as starch, cellulose, xyloglucans, pectins and chitosan are of great industrial and academic interest as materials suitable for the physical, enzymatic and chemical modification due to their valuable properties such as low cost, availability, non-toxicity, low environmental pollution or renewability [1–15].
Starch is one of the most abundant biomass materials produced by many green plants, natural energy source in the human diet and widely used polysaccharide in diverse areas of industry such as food, textile, paper, pharmaceutical, cosmetic or plastic. Non-modified starch is a hydrophilic biopolymer, granular in form, insoluble in cold water which gelatinizes in hot water. Starch is low resistance polymer toward acidic and moisture environment and it is characterized by low flowability, amorphous swelling, incompatibility with hydrophobic polymers and poor processability which have considerable influence on the limiting it practical applications [11–13]. According to the literature survey, in last years, many researches and industrials have studied the chemical starch modification processes, their influence on the properties and potential, practical utilization of modified starch-based materials. The properties of starch can be modified in different ways such as oxidation, esterification, etherification, hydrolysis, cross-linking and grafting [16–20] in order to increase its thermal stability, acid or moisture resistance, change the texture, viscosity, adhesion, etc. Among them, grafting of vinyl monomers onto polysaccharide backbone is a convenient method which allows improving poor properties of polysaccharides or creating materials which are characterized by new physical or chemical properties. Generally, the grafting process of hydrophilic or hydrophobic vinyl monomers onto carbohydrate polymers backbone allows creating more biocompatible and more environmentally friendly polymeric materials as compared to petroleum-based polymers. The hydrophobic starch graft modification has resulted in obtaining amphiphilic nature materials with a wide range of applications such as adsorbents, stabilizers, modifiers, compatibilizers, fillers, matrices, matrix or excipients for the drug delivery systems or plastics [21–26]. Many factors, e.g., temperature, time, initiator type, ratio of carbohydrate polymer to a vinyl monomer, have important influence on the course of the grafting. Due to this, suitable choice of the reaction parameters is essential to obtain the materials with high grafting percent and thus with more modified and improved properties as compared to native polysaccharides [21–26].
The present paper focuses on the physicochemical and thermal properties of some starch-g-copolymers obtained under grafting process of benzyl methacrylate monomer onto potato starch backbone. The grafting process was carried out in optimum temperature and time conditions (80 °C, 2 h) and different starch-to-monomer ratio in the presence of potassium persulfate as a radical initiator. The effect of grafting percent on the swelling properties, moisture and chemical resistance, gelatinization properties, glass transition temperature, thermal stability, thermal decomposition pathways and the type of volatile decomposition products emitted under heating of copolymers in inert conditions has been evaluated.
Experimental
Materials
Potato starch was isolated from potato flour (Melvit S.A., Poland) according to the procedure described in Ref. [27]. The benzyl methacrylate monomer (99 %) was obtained from Sigma-Aldrich. Potassium persulfate, methanol, chloroform and tetrahydrofuran were delivered by Merck, Germany.
Synthesis of starch-g-copolymers
The copolymerization process of potato starch and benzyl methacrylate monomer was carried out in a three necked glass flask (100 cm3) equipped with a mechanical stirrer, a thermometer and a nitrogen gas inlet. The 2.5 g of potato starch and 50 cm3 of distilled water were heated at 80 °C for 30 min. Then, the flask was purred with nitrogen and 1.0 % of potassium persulfate was added and stirred at 80 °C for the next 30 min. Finally, to the flask, benzyl methacrylate monomer in one portion was added and stirred (300 rmp) at 80 °C under nitrogen for the next 2 h. The grafting process was performed with potato starch-to-monomer ratio of 1:0.75, 1:1, 1:1.25, 1:1.5 and 1:2. After the reaction was complete, the flask content was poured over to methanol (100 cm3). The precipitate was filtered and dried in an oven to a constant mass. The homopolymer was separated by Soxhlet extraction using chloroform and tetrahydrofuran as solvents. The purified copolymers were washed with methanol and dried to a constant mass at 60 °C [28]. The grafting parameters such as the grafting efficiency (GE/%) and the grafting percent (G/%) were evaluated using the following equations according [29, 30]:
Characterization of starch-g-copolymers
ATR–FTIR spectra were determined on a Tensor 27, Bruker, Germany Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer equipped with a diamond crystal. Sixty-four scans over the 600–4000 cm−1 wavenumber region and a resolution of 4 cm−1 were collected.
The swelling studies of copolymers in polar and non-polar solvents at 25 °C were investigated. The swellability coefficients (B) were determined by equilibrium swelling of copolymers at 25 °C and calculated according to the following equation [31]:
where V s is the volume of the copolymer after swelling and V d is the volume of the dried copolymer.
Moisture resistance studies were performed in an exsiccator. In a typical procedure, ca. 100 mg of obtained copolymers were placed in an exsiccator and exposed to the water vapor at 25 °C for 24 h. Percent moisture absorbance was calculated according to equation presented below [32]:
where m e is the final mass of the sample and m i is the initial mass of the sample.
The chemical resistance studies were conducted against hydrochloric acid (1 M) and sodium hydroxide (1 M). The ca. 100 mg of potato starch or copolymers were treated with HCl or NaOH until a constant mass of the sample was reached. Then, the samples were filtered, carefully washed with distilled water to neutrality and dried at 60 °C to a constant mass. The chemical resistance was calculated according to the Eq. 5 [33]:
where m 1 is the initial mass of the sample and m 2 is the final mass of the sample.
The glass transition temperature (T g) and gelatinization temperature of the studied materials were evaluated by using a DSC 204 Jupiter F1 instrument, NETZSCH, Germany. The analyses were carried out in closed Al crucibles in inert atmosphere (argon, 40 cm3 min−1) with a heating rate of 10 °C min−1 in the temperature range of 20–100 °C (the gelatinization properties) or 25–150 °C (T g). In order to evaluate the gelatinization properties, ca. 3 mg of starch-g-copolymers and ca. 6 mg of distilled water in crucible were placed. The crucibles were put away for 24 h at room temperature to equilibrate and then tested.
The thermal properties of obtained copolymers were determined on a simultaneous thermal analyzer STA 449 Jupiter F1, NETZSCH, Germany instrument. The ca. 10 mg of the sample was heated from 40 up to 740 °C with a heating rate of 10 °C min−1 under inert conditions (nitrogen, purge flow 40 cm3 min−1). The analyses were done in open Al2O3 crucibles.
The identification of volatile decomposition products created under heating of the copolymers was done by using an FTIR spectrometer TGA 585 Bruker, Germany coupled online to a STA instrument by a Teflon transfer line. The gas FTIR spectra were recorded from 600 to 4000 cm−1.
Results and discussion
Characterization of starch-g-copolymers
The starch-g-poly(benzyl methacrylate) copolymers were obtained under free-radical copolymerization of different potato starch-to-benzyl methacrylate ratio, Table 1. The preliminary studies have indicated that the temperature of 80 °C and reaction time of 2 h were optimal parameters in order to prepare the copolymers with high grafting percent. Therefore, in this report, only the results obtained for optimal conditions have been presented. As it is clearly visible, the grafting parameters change as the starch-to-monomer ratio changes. The grafting efficiency and grafting percent increase with the increasing starch-to-monomer ratio from 1:0.75 up to 1:1.25. Then, the grafting parameters decreased. The copolymers show the values of GE range from 53 % ± 0.3 to 75.8 % ± 0.4. The maximum of grafting parameters (G and GE) was obtained for starch-to-monomer ratio of 1:1.25. It confirmed that this composition is optimal in order to obtain copolymers with the highest grafting percent (G) under the applied synthesis conditions.
Figure 1 shows the ATR–FTIR spectra of the copolymer (G 53.4 % ± 0.3), potato starch and poly(benzyl methacrylate) in order to compare the results. The differences between starch FTIR spectrum and the FTIR spectra of copolymers are clearly observed. FTIR spectrum of starch shows the characteristic bands corresponding to the stretching vibrations of OH groups (the region of 3000–3600 cm−1), the stretching vibrations of C–H (at 2840–2930 cm−1), the stretching vibrations of C–O–H and the C–O–C (the region of 998–1150 cm−1) [34, 35]. However, on the FTIR spectra of copolymers the appearance of additional bands is indicated. The bands which range from 3030 to 3070 cm−1 are due to the stretching vibrations of CAr–H. The peak at 1722 cm−1 is assigned to the stretching vibrations of the carbonyl groups in esters. The bands centered at 695, 745, 1450–1480 cm−1 are characteristic for the out-of-plane ring deformation vibrations of CAr–H and the stretching vibrations of C=C at the phenyl ring, respectively. The stretching vibrations (sym and asym) of C–O of starch and graft polymer between 997 and 1256 cm−1, Table 2 are observed [35]. It demonstrates the differences in the structure of starch and copolymers and confirms that the grafting process between benzyl methacrylate monomer and gelatinized potato starch was successful and allowed obtaining the novel polymeric materials.
All the prepared starch-g-poly(benzyl methacrylate) copolymers are in the form of white powders which are insoluble in polar and non-polar solvents. However, the swelling of copolymers in both type of solvents is clearly observed, Table 3. What is interesting is that the swelling of copolymers is considerably lower in polar solvents as compared to the swelling of potato starch. Meanwhile, it can be certified that their swelling depends on the grafting percent. As a consequence of the presence of the apolar benzyl methacrylate, the swellability coefficients in polar solvents decrease with increasing grafting percent as is given in Table 3. However, the behavior of copolymers in non-polar solvents is completely different. As the grafting percent increases, better solvolysis of copolymers by non-polar solvents and their higher swelling than potato starch is observed [28]. Based on those data, it can be concluded that the hydrophilic interactions between copolymers and polar solvents are stronger for copolymers which are characterized by lower G/%. On the contrary, the hydrophobic interactions between copolymer and non-polar solvents are stronger for copolymers with higher G/%.
Table 4 shows the results of the moisture absorbance studies. As it is clearly visible, the covalent bonding of poly(benzyl methacrylate) chains onto starch backbone causes obtaining less sensitive copolymers toward moisture. In addition, it was confirmed that as the grafting percent (G) of copolymers is increased, the copolymers are more moisture resisted as compared to copolymers with lower G and potato starch. DSC technique was applied to study the gelatinization properties of prepared copolymers. Based on the performed studies, the gelatinization of copolymers was not observed. The lack of the endothermic DSC signals responsible for the gelatinization properties of the studied materials was indicated.
Table 5 presents the results on the chemical resistance studies of starch-g-poly(benzyl methacrylate) copolymers and potato starch. Based on the presented data, potato starch gelatinized fully in alkaline conditions, which is in accordance with other studies [28, 36, 37]. However, the resistance of copolymers toward basic conditions is higher as compared to potato starch. What is interesting is that the base resistance of starch-g-poly(benzyl copolymers) is highly dependent on the grafting percent. As the grafting percent is increased, the copolymers are more stable in base conditions. Regarding my studies, the homopolymer formed under the grafting process is fully base resistant. On the other hand, the copolymers are characterized by higher resistance toward acidic conditions than starch. It is also clearly visible that their acid resistance is higher than their base resistance. In these studies, the mass loss of potato starch was ca. 80 % in acidic conditions. Meanwhile, the mass loss of copolymers with grafting percent above 43 % was only 20–22 %, Table 5. It is concluded that the chemical modification of potato starch by the formation of poly(benzyl methacrylate) chains onto starch backbone caused obtaining the materials which are more resistant to chemical degradation process than potato starch.
Thermal properties of copolymers
The poly(benzyl methacrylate) obtained in this study is characterized by T g value ca. 59 °C, which is in accordance with the literature data [38, 39]. It is worth noting that the T g values of copolymers are shifted to little higher temperatures (ca. 65–67 °C) as compared to the T g of homopolymer, Fig. 2. It can be suspected that the covalent bonding of polymeric chains containing methyl, methylene and benzyl groups onto starch backbone caused the lower chain mobility of prepared materials, and thus, it allowed obtaining the copolymers which are characterized by more stiff structure.
TG/DTG/DSC curves of starch-g-copolymers gathered under inert atmosphere are shown in Fig. 3. The TG/DTG data are also given in Table 6. As it is clearly visible, the thermal properties of copolymers are very similar. Generally, at least three mass loss stages for starch-g-copolymers are appeared on the thermal curves. The first mass loss visible as a small DTG signal at temperatures lower than 150 °C with mass loss ca. 3–4 % is connected with the evaporation of absorbed water by copolymers. However, the second and third mass loss stages which appear as non-well separated signals on DTG curves are the result of the decomposition process of starch-g-poly(benzyl methacrylate) copolymers. The first decomposition stage for all studied copolymers spreads from ca. 240 up to 320–330 °C with comparable maximum mass loss temperature (T max1) values and mass loss ranges from 36 to 45 %, Table 6. However, the second decomposition stage is visible from ca. 320–330 up to 550 °C with the maximum mass loss temperature (T max2) from 366 to 375 °C. It is worth noting that the mass loss in this stage is highly depended on the grafting percent. The degree of mass loss increased with increasing grafting percent at this temperature range. Their values hesitate from 28 % for copolymer with the grafting percent of 33.1 % ± 0.5 up to 48 % for copolymer with the grafting percent of 53.4 % ± 0.3. Finally, at temperatures higher than 550 °C, the small shoulder with the mass loss ca. 2–3 % on TG curves was observed. Correspondingly, on DSC curves two endothermic signals maximized at ca. 276–287 °C (T max1) and at ca. 377–396 °C (T max2) were observed. The appearance of the endothermic signals on DSC curves was directly connected with the main decomposition stages of the copolymers.
In order to evaluate the decomposition path of prepared copolymers, the FTIR analysis of the gaseous decomposition products emitted during heating of the materials in inert conditions was conducted. The example FTIR spectra gathered at different temperature range for two chosen copolymers are shown in Fig. 4. Due to the appearance of the same absorption signals on the FTIR spectra for copolymers 1–5, only the FTIR spectra for copolymers which are characterized by minimum (copolymer 1) and maximum (copolymer 3) grafting percent are presented. The main differences between gaseous FTIR spectra for all studied copolymers were connected with the relative intensity of the emitted gaseous products, which were directly connected with the grafting percent, Fig. 4.
On the FTIR spectra gathered at temperature range where the first decomposition stage of copolymers is indicated, the absorption signals characteristic for the emission of CO2 (670 and 2330–2365 cm−1), CO (2000–2200 cm−1) and H2O (3500–3900 cm−1) [40–43] are appeared. Besides those bands, the additional absorption signals connected with the evolution of other gaseous compounds are also identified. We can assume that the bands at 1716–1793 cm−1 (the stretching vibrations of C=O), at 2734–2806 cm−1 (the stretching vibrations of C–H in O=C–H groups), at 1078–1170 cm−1 (the stretching vibrations of C–O) and at 3580 cm−1 (stretching vibrations of OH) are characteristic for the formation of aldehyde, alcohol and acid fragments. In addition, the presence of the signals at 2860–2970 cm−1 (the stretching vibrations of C–H), at 1350–1470 cm−1 (the deformation vibrations of C–H) and at 740–998 cm−1 (out-of-plane deformation vibrations of the C–H) and at 1508 and at 1580 cm−1 (ring C=C stretching vibrations) [43] may indicate on the creation of aliphatic and furan structures at these temperature range. The type of the emitted gaseous decomposition products indicates mainly on the breaking of the glycosidic bonds, strong bonds and thermal dehydration of starch from studied copolymers under the first decomposition stage. Those observations are in accordance with the results obtained by other researches [28, 40, 44–48].
However, as the temperature is higher than 320–330 °C, among the emission of CO2, CO, H2O, one can observe the presence of the absorption bands characteristic for the evolution of benzyl methacrylate monomer. The FTIR spectra gathered under second decomposition stage of copolymers are in a good agreement with the gaseous FTIR spectra of benzyl methacrylate monomer tabulated in the NIST gaseous FTIR library spectra [43]. The results confirm that the main decomposition process of copolymers is connected with the depolymerization process of graft polymer chains [49]. However, as the temperature is higher than 450 °C, the emission of CH4 (3014 cm−1) among decomposition gases is indicated. It can be the result of secondary reactions which may happen at higher temperatures, e.g., reactions between chain radicals and carbonization of the residues.
Conclusions
The novel, amphiphilic starch-g-poly(benzyl methacrylate) copolymers were successfully prepared under free-radical copolymerization process of gelatinized potato starch and benzyl methacrylate monomer. As it was confirmed, those materials exhibited completely different properties than unmodified potato starch which was the result of the formation of poly(benzyl methacrylate) chains onto the starch backbone. Thus, the copolymers showed lower swelling in polar solvent but higher swelling in non-polar solvents, higher resistance toward moisture, higher resistance toward basic and acidic conditions than unmodified potato starch. The decomposition process of copolymers starts at temperatures ca. 240 °C and happens in two main stages. The first decomposition stage was mainly connected with the decomposition of starch from starch-g-copolymers. The second was due to the depolymerization process of the graft polymer. As a result, the emission of different gaseous products (CO2, CO, H2O, aldehydes, alcohols, acids, furan derivatives, benzyl methacrylate and CH4) and the formation of char residues were indicated. Those results proved that by chemical modification of low cost, renewable and available potato starch by benzyl methacrylate monomer is possible to obtain novel, amphiphilic, more environmentally friendly materials which are promising materials such as fillers, stabilizers, modifiers, matrices or plastics which can replace non-biodegradable and compostable petroleum-based plastics materials.
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Worzakowska, M. Starch-g-poly(benzyl methacrylate) copolymers. J Therm Anal Calorim 124, 1309–1318 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-016-5328-7
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