Relaxation Behaviour Of Low Density Polyethylene/ Thermoplastic Starch Blend: Investigation The Role Of Compatibilizer

In the polymer industry and science, interest in thermoplastic starch (TPS) based blend has been recently renewed due to its abundance, low- cost, biodegradability and the possibility of processing using common equipment for polymer processing1_ENREF_1_ENREF_1. The most frequentlypolymer which used for blending with TPS is LDPE. Despite many studies have been done on this blend, there is no attention on the rheological properties of it. Because the TPShas gel like behavior and is different rheological properties in comparison with other conventional thermoplastics, it isinteresting to investigate the blend of these two dissimilar categories. In this study the relaxation properties of LDPE/TPS in the presence of compatibilizer have been studied