Combinatorial effects of mechanical activation and chemical stimulation on the microwave assisted acetylation of corn (<i>Zea mays</i>) starch
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract The changes in the physical characteristics of ball milled corn starch (BMS) after chemical modification were investigated. The SEM and XRD analysis of BMS granules showed a fragmented aspect with a total loss of their initial crystallinity and an increase of their potential hydroxyl substitution sites. This morphology facilitated the access of the esterifying solvents into the starch molecule as corroborated by the spectacular increase of the water solubility index (WSI) and water absorption index (WAI). Following the acetylation, the degree of substitution (DS) increased up to 2.83 with the augmentation of the iodine catalyst content ( p = 0.011). However, under the same condition of esterification, the DS of the BMS was slightly lower in comparison to the control, due to an increase in the number of free hydroxyl groups. Consequently to the modification, a reduction in the T g , strong hydrophobicity and important exo‐corrosion affecting the granules were noticed.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".