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With the environmental appeal around the planet for a sustainable development, there is the need to develop new materials from renewable resources, which can be degraded in a short time in the environment, thereby maintaining the proper balance of the carbon cycle. The utilization of hydrocolloids, such as soy protein, to prepare biodegradable materials with suitable properties, has been a great challenge for the scientific community, since these materials do not possess all the desirable characteristics of the synthetic polymers, being mostly often, highly hydrophilic and also presenting poor mechanical properties to be used as engineering’s materials. In this context, the studies with application of nanotechnology to biodegradable polymers can open new possibilities to improve not only the properties of these materials, but also its efficiency.
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Innocentini-Mei, L.H., Fakhouri, F.M. (2013). Recent Studies on Soy Protein Based Blends, Composites and Nanocomposites. In: Thomas, S., Visakh, P., Mathew, A. (eds) Advances in Natural Polymers. Advanced Structured Materials, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20940-6_5
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