[ES] El objetivo general de la presente tesis doctoral fue aditivar polímeros biodegradables con colofonia y sus derivados mediante el uso de técnicas de procesamiento convencionales y no convencionales. En esta tesis se ...

[EN] There is a growing interest in the use of non-polluting compounds, which come from renewable sources, and which performance in their scope is equivalent to their synthetic similes. In this work, five types of rosins ...

[EN] The present work analyzes the influence of modified, epoxidized and maleinized corn oil as a plasticizing and/or compatibilizing agent in the PLA¿PHB blend (75% PLA and 25% PHB wt.%). The chemical modification processes ...

[EN] Completely biobased and biodegradable thermoplastic starch (TPS) based materials with a tunable performance were prepared for food packaging applications. Five blends were prepared by blending TPS with 10 wt%. of ...

[EN] During the 2020/21 academic year, the active and collaborative learning methodology was implemented in the development of a laboratory practice of the Eco-efficient Materials course of the second year of the University ...

[EN] Poly(butylene succinate) (PBS) is one of the contaminants in the Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) recycling process. It is known that high contents of PBS in PET significantly reduce PET properties, but the effect ...

[EN] In this work, different materials for three-dimensional (3D)-printing were studied, which based on polycaprolactone with two natural additives, gum rosin, and beeswax. During the 3D-printing process, the bed and ...