US 11,718,733 B2
Starch nanocomposite materials
Kishan Khemani, Williamstown (AU); Graeme Moad, Sassafras (AU); Edmond Lascaris, Bundoora (AU); Guoxin Li, Keysborough (AU); George Simon, Carnegie (AU); Jana Habsuda, Knoxfield (AU); Robert Shanks, Glen Iris (AU); Antonietta Genovese, Sandringham (AU); Wasantha Gunaratne, Macleod (AU); and Lance Nichols, St. Albans Park (AU)
Assigned to PLANTIC TECHNOLOGIES LTD., Altona (AU)
Filed by Plantic Technologies Ltd., Altona (AU)
Filed on Apr. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/229,889.
Application 17/229,889 is a continuation of application No. 15/629,073, filed on Jun. 21, 2017, granted, now 11,008,442.
Application 15/629,073 is a continuation of application No. 12/602,257, granted, now 9,745,453, previously published as PCT/AU2008/000787, filed on Jun. 2, 2008.
Claims priority of application No. 2007902980 (AU), filed on Jun. 1, 2007.
Prior Publication US 2021/0246286 A1, Aug. 12, 2021
Int. Cl. C08L 3/00 (2006.01); C08L 3/02 (2006.01); C08K 9/04 (2006.01); B29B 7/00 (2006.01); B29B 7/46 (2006.01); B29B 7/82 (2006.01); B29C 48/40 (2019.01); B29B 7/72 (2006.01); C08K 3/34 (2006.01)
CPC C08L 3/02 (2013.01) [B29B 7/007 (2013.01); B29B 7/46 (2013.01); B29B 7/728 (2013.01); B29B 7/823 (2013.01); B29B 7/826 (2013.01); B29C 48/40 (2019.02); C08K 9/04 (2013.01); C08K 3/346 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A substantially exfoliated nanocomposite material including:
a modified starch which is an ether-modified starch, and
a layered silicate clay which is a clay modified by exchange with a surfactant comprising at least one C12-C22 alkyl group and
wherein the nanocomposite material is free of polyester polymers.