Freezing the potatoes would be a lot easier than grating them as freezing breaks down the cell structure and you can just squeeze the juice from the potato if anything it should give you a better yield than just grating and grinding
Hi, I bought a solder sucker which I can not buy replacement tips for. It cost $20. I want to make a wooden mold and make my own plastic replacement tips. I could make soft plastic replacement tips but if I can harden homemade tips I will be trying to make a plastic hopefully towards the teflon type of plastic. At the moment I could make homemade plastic using milk and vinegar. Will this mix harden using glycerol or would they perhaps conflict with each other? Thanks for your video - Nick
Hello I'm a high school student that is currently doing experiments and writing a report based on biodegradable plastic. Can you please tell us the molecular formula and specific steps of decomposing bio plastic?
hello David. What if we Looking create the plastic on big level. Say 15KG to 20KG ? what equipment we should use? what kinda boiler we need to use? What is the process for the same? We need to use the big glass biker or we can use the metal l? please advice?
actually, the acid can be substituted by vinegar here's a a very easy way of making it and a large quantity too: www.instructables.com/id/Make-Potato-Plastic!/
because the water/ moisture in it evaporates thus the chains that were once far apart come closer together because it's not in a orderly form there are some area much bigger coagulated together and some not, this falls under irregular creation, now if you microstructured the formation in a dispenser which controls regularity all through out then you will get a well pan out consistent structure.
What purpose does it serve in the reaction? The solution was probably neutral at the beginning before the acid was added, so I know that the goal was to achieve some sort of property? What is that property?
Starch has amylose(linear chains) and amylopectin (branched chains). Branched chains do not easily form plastic, so we add acid to convert amylopectin to amylose.. and later base is acid to neutralize the acid added earlier.
Hi thank you so much for share this so useful video . I want to ask a questions. How do we understand that bioplastics? So just looking at the outward appearance, we can understand is it bioplastic or not ? How to know it chemistry ?
At what temperature, do you bake it in oven? And i tried doing the same and when i decanted water to get clear starch, it was not in the form of powder, rather a gelatinous rubber like material. Can you suggest something?
Wouldn't practical suggest the plastic being used for a practical purpose? Making a few chips of plastic is hardly practical. What can this plastic be used for?
I believe the purpose is a proof of concept. You can multiply the weight of each ingredient depending on the amount of plastic you want. But given the fact that conventional plastics are made using petroleum based methods I could see the practically in an alternative source based on simple starch. It would be more eco friendly & would more likely break down quicker in nature. Might be good for making bags, bottles, disposable plastic products such as razor casings & such.
Bioplastic like this can be used for 3d-printing, which allows you to create a wide range of useful and fun parts (see thingiverse.com ). PLA derived from corn starch is the most common bioplastic used for this, but some filament producers create plastics derived from potato starch as well.
***** After you have produced plastic as seen here, you shred it up into pellets. Then you use a filament extruder (like Filastruder), which you can then feed to your 3D printer.
Freezing the potatoes would be a lot easier than grating them as freezing breaks down the cell structure and you can just squeeze the juice from the potato if anything it should give you a better yield than just grating and grinding
Thankyou David Read! I'm startin to get a feel for this!
That's a helpful video. Thank you.
A small query: Why only Glycerin is being used?
Hi, I bought a solder sucker which I can not buy replacement tips for. It cost $20. I want to make a wooden mold and make my own plastic replacement tips. I could make soft plastic replacement tips but if I can harden homemade tips I will be trying to make a plastic hopefully towards the teflon type of plastic. At the moment I could make homemade plastic using milk and vinegar. Will this mix harden using glycerol or would they perhaps conflict with each other? Thanks for your video - Nick
- again the water can be decanted off.
- if we dry the starch in an over, we get a white powder.
- to 2,5 gr starch , we add 25 ml of water.
Hello I'm a high school student that is currently doing experiments and writing a report based on biodegradable plastic. Can you please tell us the molecular formula and specific steps of decomposing bio plastic?
What temperature have you maintained while heating it
what if i looking to prepare plastic on big scale.say 10kg to 15kg?what is the ratio of chemicals we must take .
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hello David.
What if we Looking create the plastic on big level. Say 15KG to 20KG ? what equipment we should use? what kinda boiler we need to use?
What is the process for the same? We need to use the big glass biker or we can use the metal l?
please advice?
Is it thermosetting or thermoplastic?
How long will it take to bake and how many degrees Fahrenheit?
is this PLA? could I put it in a filament extruder along with PLA pellets to make 3D printer filament?
actually, the acid can be substituted by vinegar here's a a very easy way of making it and a large quantity too: www.instructables.com/id/Make-Potato-Plastic!/
Hi,
Is it soluble in water ?
is it a thermoset?
GREAT. THANKS FOR SHARING
thus it is a good demostration could we use it in science exhibition as working model
why did it turn to a sticky jelly type structure when I heated it in oven ?
because the water/ moisture in it evaporates thus the chains that were once far apart come closer together because it's not in a orderly form there are some area much bigger coagulated together and some not, this falls under irregular creation, now if you microstructured the formation in a dispenser which controls regularity all through out then you will get a well pan out consistent structure.
to what temp is it heated to for the 15minutes, also what would be the biodegradation time on this stuff?
Are there any other materials besides potatoes that can be made into plastic?
hey, i would like to know about milk plastic,
how much time it will take for curing and how about mechanical properties.
What a biopolymer is this? answer please
if i extract it from rice, can it still be turmed into plastics?
Why was acid and base used?
What purpose does it serve in the reaction? The solution was probably neutral at the beginning before the acid was added, so I know that the goal was to achieve some sort of property? What is that property?
fishin mid bama the solution of starch was acidic, by adding Na-OH or lye which is a base, he adjusted the solution to neutral or water.
to break the natural sugar polimers in the starch.
Starch has amylose(linear chains) and amylopectin (branched chains). Branched chains do not easily form plastic, so we add acid to convert amylopectin to amylose.. and later base is acid to neutralize the acid added earlier.
@@abcd7152 I need your assistance for making corn to plastic
i got A+++ from this experiment
Have you tested its tensile strength?
Hi thank you so much for share this so useful video . I want to ask a questions.
How do we understand that bioplastics?
So just looking at the outward appearance, we can understand is it bioplastic or not ? How to know it chemistry ?
At what temperature, do you bake it in oven?
And i tried doing the same and when i decanted water to get clear starch, it was not in the form of powder, rather a gelatinous rubber like material. Can you suggest something?
Yes I have the same query
Don't put it in oven just let its in air
Can we use your video's content in our research paper?
Wouldn't practical suggest the plastic being used for a practical purpose? Making a few chips of plastic is hardly practical. What can this plastic be used for?
i was just wondering the same thing
is it possible to mold this ?
I believe the purpose is a proof of concept. You can multiply the weight of each ingredient depending on the amount of plastic you want. But given the fact that conventional plastics are made using petroleum based methods I could see the practically in an alternative source based on simple starch. It would be more eco friendly & would more likely break down quicker in nature. Might be good for making bags, bottles, disposable plastic products such as razor casings & such.
Bioplastic like this can be used for 3d-printing, which allows you to create a wide range of useful and fun parts (see thingiverse.com ). PLA derived from corn starch is the most common bioplastic used for this, but some filament producers create plastics derived from potato starch as well.
Jon Nordby
I understand how plastic is made but plastic chips is hardly in a form that can be used by a 3D printer.
***** After you have produced plastic as seen here, you shred it up into pellets. Then you use a filament extruder (like Filastruder), which you can then feed to your 3D printer.
can this plastic be decomposed in the soil or water
is veg. glycerin can be use instead of just glycerin
That's some very nice spelling you have there.
Does it is a non plastic or plastic?
Is This Bioplastic formed
Can it proof the water ?
Is it also applicable on Sweet potatoes?
Is this plastic edible?
is it necessary to have an oven or else heating is enough
I need that answer too!
Can you eat it
i'm going to perform this experiment .hope to be successful-____-
thanks for the vid
whats noah ? thx
both
Hello, may I ask the amount of NaOH to be used sir. Thanks!
you can put in NaOH until the indicator paper does not get red anymore.
i see Stanelco are making this...share price only 0.4p
Plastic can be turned into oil. (On bang goes the theory) so can we use potatoes>plastic>oil? That would be awesome! I challenge you to try it!
WHOA
POTATOES
Lol how do we buy HCl?
u can buy it in any market in the part for toilet cleaning prntscr.com/ivg517
I used sour cream and butter and this stuff tastes terrible!
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Can children in Africa eat this?
no, but with this kind of knowledge they can learn how to produce their own stuff ;-)
+Leonel Braga lol
@ase010 nice try :P
muriatic acid is Hydrochloric acid
It doesn't work at all 🙄🙄🙄
And yet we eat potato & wonder y r joints r all fckd up smh.
muriatic acid is Hydrochloric acid
muriatic acid is Hydrochloric acid