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. 2015 Jun 13;52(12):7669–7682. doi: 10.1007/s13197-015-1905-1

Table 4.

Thermal degradation temperature (Td, °C), weight loss (∆w, %), residue (%) and glass transition temperature (Tg, °C) of gelatin films and nanocomposite films incorporated with EECH at different levels

Film samples ∆1 ∆2 Residue Tg
Td1 ∆w1 Td2 ∆w2
GF-0 % 52.38 5.64 258.33 72.70 21.66 47.14
GF-0.05 % 69.05 6.98 264.29 71.94 21.08 53.57
NF-0 % 71.43 6.76 266.66 71.49 21.75 54.99
NF-0.4 % 69.05 6.60 267.86 71.62 21.78 58.57

∆1 and ∆2 denote the first and second stage weight loss, respectively, of films during TGA heating scan