Vietnamese researchers develops biodegradable plastic

15 January 2009

The plastic available presently is made from oil and gas products and these are not biodegradable and it can take 1000 years to degrade naturally. New researchers in Vietnam have developed a new nanocomposite plastic that is biodegradable and at the cost of the plastic is also less. The new product was found very convenient and very useful for the purpose of packaging and at the same time it is water resistant comparable to the commercial plastic. 

Researchers started study four years ago at the University of Sciences, Ho Chi Minh City and according to the Group’s leader Truong Phuoc Nghia, the material is fully biodegradable in land and it has several advantages over the imported plastic. The researchers claim that it is fully biodegradable between one and six months in landfill having microorganisms. 

Researchers claim that they used nanotechnology for obtaining this cost effective and biodegradable plastic known as nanocomposite after mixing thermoplastic starch, food additives, a special polymer clay and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA). Using the above technology, researchers were able to make materials at much lower cost at around 30 percent of the imported plastic. Researchers carried out ductility and elasticity tests on the new products and found that the data are comparable to commercial one. 

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