Turning Potatoes Into Plastic 

cellohane was popular before petroleum plastics.

Another one: Mix glycerol and citric acid at 1-1 molar ratio without any water (the correct ratio is _very_ important). If you cook/bake it slightly above 100C (effectively removing the extra water coming from the cross linking esterification reaction) you can get hard foam, or thin hard coatings. For hard coatings you need to start below 100C and very slowly increase the temp to prevent foaming (the entire process can last for a day). The resulting polymer is highly biodegradable, but if it is was baked long enough it can resist water for a _few_ minutes. (NaOH or KOH or even sodium carbonate can destroy the polymer it if boiled in water)

Very entertaining presented! 👍 Nice and simple - well suited for childrens to discover home science, too! My daughter and me like such stuff. 😊🙂 10:40 R.I.P. bio plastic 😉

I think controlling the drying would be a way to improve. Maybe peeling the potatoes too as there is little starch in the pees and maybe the cellulose in the peels affects the polymerization? Or maybe it acts like a nucleation site helping the glucose form cellulose.

Great videos! This channel is gonna blow up like me trying to do chemistry.

Awesome video! Didn't know it was so easy. Another video exploring additives would be very interesting. Keep up the good work!

And I like that you also show possible side experiments (here: Oobleck).

Amazing work! I love your videos, you make me learn so much, you're overly underrated I wish you had more visibility!

Mum, can we get some Lego? We've got Lego at home! 😂😂😂

One thing, tho it may have added a few steps, the material you filter out right at the first is largely cellulose fibers, which would work similarly to starch, but have more long chains and some cross bridge chains.

"You can use corn starch, potato starch or wheat flour, but I will go with potato starch just because potatoes are the best meme" You can't argue with that logic! 😄

pretty cool!

Great video. I wonder if there are some nontoxic processes to cure it into a quite hard plastic that can be used and casted into little jars for storing things. Maybe it could also be treated with those water proof sprays in order to hold wet things in it (not for human consumption of course). Maybe curing it in the oven would work with a higher concentration of Vinegar.

Would it be possible to make filament for a 3D printer.. I think that would make for an awesome video,, and awesome in general.

Hi, thanks for your video, nice work. I would like to do some artwork with bioplastic but I don’t know if I can get it to dry to a 5mm thick sheet, I assume it would still have a malleable behaviour but I would like it to be harder, do you know of a way? I have coffee mugs that say they are made of cornstarch but how do they get it to be that hard?

Good for food storage .... how long till it rots if left in cupboard in sealed container, or does it need to be refrigeratored

Nice. can you make a video for a beginning lab? I have all the basic glassware, just looking for some experiments to do. Single replacement, double displacement, synthesis and other things that are simple

You had me at potato ASMR😂

Great work¡ You have a new sub, good man.

Hi, its me again. The recipe actually works ! I am now experimenting but i will make a video and i will make sure to credit you for the recipe in the video !

great experiment! What can be used instead of glycerine? And how to make it harder?

Its a nice try. I have a question. As I saw it is dissolving in water. How can we improve it in to a manner that we can pack the watery things inside like in normal plastic?

you could probably add some sugar to the mix to purposely make it sweeter, so you could make a plastic candy kinda thing.

Can you tell what kinda mixture to make plastic Hard or can be be say turn be pcp plastic

Something a lot of people don't really seem to consider is that one of the big problems with plastic is not just that it hangs around for a long time, but when it does break down into nanoplastics and microplastics, it ends up in the food web, and can cause all sorts of unforseen negative effects. If you have a plastic that breaks down into the same things as a potato, it's much less bad news if those by-products end up in an animal. Much better to end up with potato in your bloodstream, rather than polyvinylchloride.

hello, I was wondering which ratios you used for the orange plastic that you showed at 6:35, since it looks a lot stiffer than the other ones.

thanks

I wish to see someone making it water-resistant. I did some research and this could be interesting: Reinforcement with natural additives: Incorporating natural additives like waxes, oils, or resins into the bioplastic formulation can help improve its water resistance. These additives create a hydrophobic barrier, reducing water permeability. Examples include beeswax, carnauba wax, or natural oils such as palm oil or soybean oil.

@Amateur Chemistry What about converting polystyrene into more harmless benzoic acid? I think it is a good idea to try to do some recycling with that nasty plastic.

Technically this can be plastic but will it get mold(fungus)? It would be nice to test a rigid type vs a rubbery type and see their strengths, how durable, if any are resistant to water and at what temperature limits. I can see myself making a mold with this if I knew a recipe that would resist mold (fungus) at least

8:10 at this point it’s children’s glue and can also be used as wallpaper glue

hi. great video! i have a question...apart from water, what enemies does this plastic have? do contact with metals ...aluminium for example..or salts.. etc cause any kind of adverse results?

How about making cellulose base bioplastic?

This would be perfect for a little kids science fair project. Parents write this down😂.

Is the last product is can be Remelted please answer.

You turned potatoes into plastic, but can you turn plastic into potatoes?!?!?

How many days will it take to do this job ?

How do u make pla or poly-lactide

forbidden kisiel XD

Can you vulcanize it?

ive always liked the idea of bioplastic, it seems like a simple fix to the plastic issue but when you REALLY think about replacing plastic with this stuff it seems like it wont cut it, a lot of the time plastic is meant to keep bacteria out, if I had a bioplastic zip lock bag, could I use it the same way? If i leave it sitting on my desk with chips in it for a week would it properly keep the air out or would it start to degrade? that's what I wonder as well how log would it take to degrade in a household environment? also is it sticky? cause that would be a problem if it dissolves in water than air moisture would likely get to it... TLDR I love the idea but I wish we could make a kind that only becomes biodegradable once something specific is done to it so "dispose" of it Also WHAY IS EVERYONE SO OBSESSED WITH EATING IT??? Can we go more in the Make it useful rather than make it more edible dang! why yall wanna eat plastic so bad? more sugar = more degradable = shorter lifespan I want it to go away but not before im done using it as plastic, if im gunna eat it i wouldn't use it as plastic....

2:32 Pov: you are making school launches

any solution to replace glycerin with? can we use honey?

this is almost the recipe for Turkish delights , they use tartar as the acid

Wondering if any foods use this process without being aware its a plastic

Watching potato grind makes my hands hurt.

Ah, the "hurrdurr six hundos" music

You can probably us antifreeze as a glycerin source

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Turn potatos into butyric acid [through anaerobic fermentation]. Hundreds of liters of butyric acid and other subtsances were made from potatos in the near past. I just wish someone on RU-vid recreate it small scale

What about to do some wood or milk plastic😏

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Question, does also flower starch work ?

All plant fiber that is so important to controlling cholesterol and sugar levels are cellulose plastic. They are not making bioplastic they are just harvesting it.

Amazing job well done how are you

=AHA,THAT'S A TIDE CAPSULE CHALLENGE BASICALLY AS FAR AS I KNOW ........AND YEAH,THAT "PLASTIC" IS ACTUALLY PRETTY MUCH COMMON DISH AND NOTHING SPECIAL......WHEN I'M LIKE TOO MUCH STRESSED I'M MAKING A HUGE BOWL OF IT AND EAT FOR SEVERAL DAYS......OF COURSE IT'S VERY SWEET BERRY FLAVORED

Use wax paper

The cells will rupture if you freeze the potatoes

نريد بلاستك مفيد للاستعمال لا يذوب في الماء وملاحضة نريد فيديوهات من مواد متوفره في المنزل او كيفيه صنعها من مواد في المنزل لان يصعب الحصول على المكونات الكيميائية على سبيل المثال حامض الهيدروكلوريك وغيره We want plastic that is useful for use and does not dissolve in water. Note, we want videos of materials available at home or how to make them from materials at home because it is difficult to obtain chemical components, for example hydrochloric acid and others.

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Don't bury acidic things in the ground

I mean, it's interesting and all but not really useful for anything, right? I think the biggest problem is that we want something relatively biodegradable but also something water resistant, more like wax..

Turning plastic into potatoes would be far more useful .

Uff. Vowel pronunciation is very difficult to understand.

6:35 carbon is used to harden iron and its also the base of our biology whats ur point duh . jk xd

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grinder anyone, or a ball mill, or a potato mill, what interference, excuses

F plastics. Tell me How to make potatoes out of plastics