{"id":763,"date":"2010-09-01T12:30:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T16:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=763"},"modified":"2010-09-01T12:30:37","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T16:30:37","slug":"making-corn-based-plastics-more-heat-tolerant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"Making Corn-based Plastics More Heat Tolerant"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_765\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-765\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Maize_ARS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-765\" title=\"Maize_ARS\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Maize_ARS.jpg\" alt=\"Maize (Agricultural Research Service, USDA)\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Maize_ARS.jpg 200w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Maize_ARS-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Agricultural Research Service, USDA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Petroleum is not only the main source of transportation fuel but also a key raw material in making plastics. A team from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lapol.net\/\">Lapol LLC<\/a>, of Santa Barbara, California and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ars.usda.gov\/is\/pr\/2010\/100901.htm\">Agricultural Research Service<\/a> (ARS) of USDA are working on a solution to make corn-based plastics a better alternative than plastics made from oil.<\/p>\n<p>An important property of plastics is the ability to withstand high temperatures. Corn-based plastics are made by fermenting corn sugar to produce lactic acid. The lactic acid is then further polymerized into polylactic acid, or PLA, a bioplastic. Since 2007, the Lapol\/ARS team is developing a product known as a heat-deflection temperature modifier blended with PLA to make it more heat-tolerant.<\/p>\n<p>The heat-deflection temperature modifier is more than 90 percent corn-based and is fully biodegradable. However, there currently are no commercially available heat-deflection temperature modifiers for PLA. ARS and Lapol are seeking a patent for this invention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petroleum is not only the main source of transportation fuel but also a key raw material in making plastics. A team from Lapol LLC, of Santa Barbara, California and the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of USDA are working on a solution to make corn-based plastics a better alternative than plastics made from oil. An important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[92,68,58],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ventures","tag-agriculture","tag-energy","tag-usda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}