WITH DECLINING FOSSIL fuels and environmental problems arising from increasing landfill areas, the need to find alternative resources based on renewable sources is crucial. Starch is one potential raw material for the textile industry, which is stored as an energy resource in plants. Starch can be found in a broad variety of plants; hence the diversity in starch molecules from various sources is considerable. Furthermore, starch granulates can also differ in size, shape and composition according to its source.
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