2024 (1) 6

https://doi.org/10.15407/polymerj.46.01.056

PYROLYSIS OF PLASTICIZED FILMS BASED ON SOY PROTEIN, DENATURED BY DIFFERENT SUBSTANCES

Tetiana Samoilenko* (ORCID: 0000-0002-3232-1621), Larysa Yashchenko (ORCID: 0000-0002-0736-8073), Nataliia Yarova (ORCID: 0000-0002-3347-8073), Volodymyr Bortnytskyi (ORCID: 0000-0003-4954-6533), Oleksandr Brovko (ORCID: 0000-0003-0238-1137)
Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry NAS of Ukraine, 48, Kharkivske highway, Kyiv, 02155, Ukraine,

^*e-mail: s_t_f@ukr.net
Polym. J., 2024, 46, no. 1: 56-65.

Section: Structure and properties.

Language: Ukrainian.

Abstract:

Polymer films based on soy protein isolate (SPI) were obtained using the thermo-pressing method. Plasticizers and denaturing agents were added to ensure better the film-forming properties and reduce the fragility of the resulting materials. Glycerol, sorbitol and their mixture were used for plasticization, while solutions of alkali (potassium hydroxide), surfactants of natural origin (sodium coco sulfate) and reducing agent (sodium sulfite) were used for denaturation. By combining different types of plasticization and denaturation, a series of samples were obtained and compared with a sample based on raw soy protein. In addition to the obvious differences in the appearance of the films, the processes of their thermal degradation, studied by pyrolysis mass spectrometry, also differed significantly. In fact, unprocessed soy protein has the highest thermal stability with the temperature of the most intensive decomposition equal to 270 °С, which can decrease to 200 °С under the conditions of denaturation and plasticization. Despite the increase in the number of film components, the amount of volatile decomposition products decreases (from 86 to 32), as well as the molecular weight of the heaviest of them (from 169 to 74). This is a sign of a change in the mechanism of soy protein degradation due to denaturation and plasticization caused by transformations in its supramolecular structure, such as unfolding and extension of macrochains with increased availability of functional groups. The pyrolytic behavior of some protein samples plasticized with sorbitol is closest to that of untreated soy protein, which may indicate a lower plasticizing efficiency of sorbitol with longer molecules than glycerol. The interpretation of the recorded mass spectra of the volatile pyrolysis products showed that the thermal degradation of protein materials is dominated by processes such as decarboxylation, dehydration, deamination and decarbonylation, while in the presence of plasticizers the splitting of their own molecules also becomes dominant. The characteristic mass spectra of protein films denatured by surfactants also contain ionic fragments of relatively high molecular weight, probably derived from sodium coco sulfate molecules.

Key words: soy protein, pyrolysis mass-spectrometry, denaturation, plasticizer, thermal degradation.

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