Tadeusz Spychaj

Prof. Tadeusz Spychaj

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Academic Career Length

30Years (1997-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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2 April 2012 in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
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HMHonorata Maka
Honorata Maka
TSTadeusz Spychaj
Tadeusz Spychaj
RPRyszard Pilawka
Ryszard Pilawka

19 November 2012 in Starch - Stärke
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TSTadeusz Spychaj
Tadeusz Spychaj
KWKatarzyna Wilpiszewska
Katarzyna Wilpiszewska
Magdalena ZdanowiczMagdalena Zdanowicz
Magdalena Zdanowicz

1 April 2016 in Carbohydrate Polymers
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Magdalena ZdanowiczMagdalena Zdanowicz
Magdalena Zdanowicz
TSTadeusz Spychaj
Tadeusz Spychaj
HMHonorata Mąka
Honorata Mąka

1 September 2015 in Carbohydrate Polymers
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KWKatarzyna Wilpiszewska
Katarzyna Wilpiszewska
AAAdrian Krzysztof Antosik
Adrian Krzysztof Antosik
TSTadeusz Spychaj
Tadeusz Spychaj

23 August 2019 in Polymers
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Magdalena ZdanowiczMagdalena Zdanowicz
Magdalena Zdanowicz
PSPiotr Staciwa
Piotr Staciwa
RJRoman Jedrzejewski
Roman Jedrzejewski
TSTadeusz Spychaj
Tadeusz Spychaj
The aim of this work was to prepare sugar alcohol-based deep eutectic solvents (DES) and test them as starch plasticizers. Thermoplastic starch (TPS) films were obtained via a simple and convenient thermocompression method. Influence of starch/DES premixtures conditioning (preheating, storage time) on TPS properties was investigated. TPS/sorbitol (S)-based DES exhibited similar tensile strength (TS) (8.6 MPa) but twice higher elongation at the break (ε) (33%) when compared with TPS plasticized only with S. Extra treatment, i.e., heating or prolonged storage time, facilitated starch/DES plasticizing. Starch with selected DES was also extruded and the influence of preconditioning and extrusion rotational speed were subsequently studied on thermocompressed films. Extrusion at 100 rpm led to films with TS up to ca. 10 MPa and ε up to 52%. Some differences in film samples morphology obtained via two processing methods were observed. X-ray diffractograms revealed that extruded samples exhibited a V-type peak at 18.2°, with intensity depending on plasticizer total molecular size. Applied techniques (mechanical tests, XRD, Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA), FTIR-Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR), and moisture sorption) indicated that S-based DES forms stronger interactions with starch than glycerol (G) only used as conventional plasticizer, thus leading to better mechanical properties and inhibited tendency to starch recrystallization (studied up to one year).

27 January 2014 in Journal of Applied Polymer Science
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HMHonorata Mąka
Honorata Mąka
TSTadeusz Spychaj
Tadeusz Spychaj
KKKrzysztof Kowalczyk
Krzysztof Kowalczyk