Les polymères issus du végétal : matériaux à propriétés spécifiques pour des applications ciblées en industrie plastique

Abstract

Features of plant-based polymers with special applications in plastic fi eld. The new interest of plastic fi eld with renewable resources results from a global environmental respect awareness and the fossil depletion problem. In these perspectives, vegetable raw materials mainly polymers show attractive properties with great interests in plastic industry such as biodegradability, biocompatibility, selective permeability or variability in physico-mechanical properties. These properties have targeted applications in various fi elds specifi cally packaging, agricultural, textile, pharmaceutical, electronic or medical domains. This paper describes the different raw materials from plants and their valuable properties in relation with potential applications

Keywords

• Biopolymers
• renewable raw materials
• biodegradability
• plastic industry
• polylactic acid
• bio-packaging