Malaysian Journal of Analytical Sciences Vol 19 No 5 (2015): 1032 - 1042

 

 

 

FABRICATION AND PROPERTIES OF CHITOSAN WITH STARCH FOR PACKAGING APPLICATION

 

(Pembuatan dan Sifat Chitosan (Cs) dengan Kanji untuk Kegunaan Pembungkusan)

 

Mohd Zaid Arqam Zainal Abidin¹, Nurhidayatullaili Muhd Julkapli², Hafizan Juahir¹*, Fazureen Azaman¹,

Nur Hishaam Sulaiman¹, Ismail Zainal Abidin¹

 

¹East Coast Environmental Research Institute (ESERI),

Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Gong Badak Campus, 21300 Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia

²Malaysian Institute of Chemical & Bioengineering Technology,

University Kuala Lumpur, 1988 Vendor City, 78000 Alor Gajah, Melaka, Malaysia

 

*Corresponding author: hafizanjuahir@unisza.edu.my

 

 

Received: 14 April 2015; Accepted: 9 July 2015

 

 

Abstract

This paper described the fabrication of Chitosan (Cs) with starch for packaging application. The current plastic packaging is not environmental friendly. Thus, this experiment helps to overcome this problem by performing the production of Cs with starch for packaging application. This experiment had been conducted in order to fabricate the film by using casting technique and determine the analysis through Differential Scanning (DSC), Brookfield viscometer (RVT), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry (FTIR) and degradation. The optimum ratio for Cs-film fabrication is 1:50 due to the color, thickness and the appearance of the produced film. The result from the analysis shows that Cs with starch + Glycerol had been proving that it more degrade than Cs with starch + Ethylene Glycol. As a conclusion the Cs with starch has been successful fabricate for packaging application and the degradation process has completely occurred in all types of samples.

 

Keywords: fabrication, chitosan, packaging application, degradation

 

Abstrak

Kajian ini adalah pembuatan dan sifat Chitosan (Cs) dengan kanji untuk kegunaan pembungkusan. Pembungkusan plastik semasa tidak mesra alam. Oleh itu, eksperimen ini dijalankan untuk mengatasi masalah ini dengan menunjukkan prestasi pengeluaran Cs dengan kanji dalam aplikasi pembungkusan. Eksperimen ini telah dijalankan dalam usaha untuk membentuk filem dengan menggunakan teknik casting dan menentukan analisis melalui Pengimbasan Perbezaan (DSC), Brookfield meter kelikatan (RVT), spektrometri inframerah transformasi Fourier (FTIR) dan analisis pelupusan. Nisbah 1:50 adalah hasil yang terbaik untuk membuat Cs-filem kerana ketebalan, warna dan rupa. Hasil daripada analisa menunjukkan bahawa Cs dengan kanji + Gliserol telah membuktikan bahawa ia lebih mudah merosot daripada Cs dengan kanji + Etilena Glikol. Sebagai kesimpulan proses pemerosotan telah berlaku dan objektif projek ini adalah tercapai.               

 

Kata kunci:  pembuatan, kitosan, kegunaan pembungkusan, penyusutan

 

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