Tailored Biodegradable Polymers for Injection Moulding Applications

该项目旨在设计并扩大可生物降解注塑产品的生产，使其具有量身定做的性能、加工和生物降解。具体地说，我们将结合对生物降解的了解，专注于新材料和加工技术，以扩大淀粉基聚合物的用途。然后，我们将把基本的流变学和聚合物加工技术与两所大学和工业合作伙伴(Platics Technologies)的产品开发经验结合起来，扩大加工规模，开发成功的可生物降解产品。该项目还将使一家拥有广泛股东基础的澳大利亚拥有的初创公司能够通过关键的商业化产生可观的出口收入。

This project aims to engineer and scale up production of biodegradable injection molded products with tailored properties, processing and biodegradation. Specifically we will focus on novel materials and processing technologies in tandem with biodegradation understandings to expand the utilization of starch-based polymers. We will then combine fundamental rheological and polymer processing skills with and product development experience from both universities and the industrial partner (Plantic Technologies) to scale up processing and develop successful biodegradable products. This project will also enable an Australian owned start-up company with a broad shareholder base to generate significant export income through key commercialization.