Water Sorption and Mechanical Properties of Starch/Chitosan Nanoparticle Films

Table 2

Water sorption rate (), water sorption capacity (), and regression square () obtained from water sorption data fitted to the Peleg model at different temperatures for (a) starch films and (b) starch/CNP films.

Relative humidity	Temperature 4°C			Temperature 30°C			Temperature 40°C
	Starch films
23%	0.0651	0.0832	0.9966	0.2193	0.0897	0.9954	1.0547	0.1966	0.9607
50%	0.0366	0.0507	0.9992	0.0867	0.0740	0.9999	0.1229	0.1471	0.9927
75%	0.0336	0.0423	0.9993	0.0092	0.0422	0.9997	0.1070	0.0700	0.9965
Starch/CNP films
23%	0.0072	0.0541	0.9984	0.1114	0.0856	0.9949	0.0271	0.0785	0.9995
50%	0.0062	0.0377	0.9993	0.0206	0.0466	0.9984	0.0200	0.0623	0.9997
75%	0.0016	0.0252	0.9983	0.0111	0.0390	0.9938	0.0168	0.0582	0.9992