Multi-scale thermal stability of a hard thermoplastic protein-based material

• Main Authors: Latza, Victoria, Guerette, Paul Andre, Ding, Dawei, Amini, Shahrouz, Kumar, Akshita, Schmidt, Ingo, Keating, Steven, Oxman, Neri, Weaver, James C., Fratzl, Peter, Miserez, Ali, Masic, Admir
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: cephalopod; thermal alteration
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80585; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40580
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Although thermoplastic materials are mostly derived from petro-chemicals, it would be highly desirable, from a sustainability perspective, to produce them instead from renewable biopolymers. Unfortunately, biopolymers exhibiting thermoplastic behaviour and which preserve their mechanical properti...