**Meet the editor**

Professor Adel Z. El-Sonbati received his M.Sc. from the University of Mansoura, Egypt in 1978 and a Ph.D. in coordination chemistry from the University of Tanta, Egypt in 1983. He worked as a lecturer at the Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Demiatta, Egypt. In 1987 he was promoted to an assistant professor. Since 1991, he is a full professor of inorganic chemistry. He is one of

the editorial board members in the Journal of Spectroscopy and Dynamics. He has supervised more than 35 M.Sc. and 20 Ph.D. students. Prof. El-Sonbati has published over 150 scientific papers. His current research interests are synthesis and characterization of supramolecular polymers, supramolecular polymer complexes, conducting polymers and polymer complexes, preparation and characterization of heterocyclic/polymers of uranyl complexes by using the El-Sonbati equation, thermal stability and mechanism of degradation of homopolymers and copolymers, and application of potentiometer and spectrometer for the determination of the dissociation and stability constant of some polymers and their complexes with transition elements.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Part 1 Modifications of Thermoplastic Starch 1** 

Chapter 1 **Melt Blending with Thermoplastic Starch 3**  Francisco J. Rodríguez-González

Diana Paola Navia and Héctor Samuel Villada

**of Starch by Thermoplastic Extrusion 39** 

Redouan Saiah, Richard Gattin and P.A. Sreekumar

Chapter 2 **Thermoplastic Cassava Flour 23** 

Chapter 3 **Physical and/or Chemical Modifications** 

Maria Teresa Pedrosa Silva Clerici

Chapter 4 **Properties and Biodegradation Nature of Thermoplastic Starch 57** 

Chapter 5 **Starch Protective Loose-Fill Foams 79** 

Robert Shanks and Ing Kong

Chapter 7 **Retrogradation and Antiplasticization of Thermoplastic Starch 117**  Yachuan Zhang and Curtis Rempel

Chapter 8 **Thermoplastic Elastomers 137**  Robert Shanks and Ing Kong

Chapter 9 **Modification of Thermoplastics** 

**Part 2 Modifications of Thermoplastic Elastomers 135** 

**with Reactive Silanes and Siloxanes 155** 

Jerzy J. Chruściel and Elżbieta Leśniak

Marcin Mitrus

Chapter 6 **Thermoplastic Starch 95** 
