Blend components

Additive

Improved properties

Reference

Starch/PLA

PEG (plasticizer)

-Tg and crystallinity

[197]

Starch/PLA

MDI (coupling agent)

-Microstructure, tensile strength, elongation

[198]

Starch/PLA

MA

-Tensile strength, elongation

[199]

Starch/PLLA

-

-Tensile strength and elongation

[200]

High-amylose starch/PLLA, (starshaped PLLA)/PCL

-

-Mechanical properties, toughness

[201]

Gelatinized starch/PLA

H₂O/Glycerol

-Crystallinity, interfacial adhesion, Mechanical properties, toughness

[202]

Starch/PCL

-

-Young’s modulus, strength, elongation

[203] - [207]

Starch/PCL

Various % of High-amylose starch

-Biodegradation rate

Starch/PCL

-

-Structure, interfacial adhesion, mechanical properties

Starch/PCL

Starch-g-PCL

-Tensile strength, elongation, Young’s modulus

[208]

Starch/PCL

MA modified PCL

Resilience

[209]