BBAuthors: Okeke, Ifeanyi Justin; Advisor: -; Participants: Oli, Angus Nnamdi; Ojiako, Chioma Miracle; Ibezim, Emmanuel Chinedum; Okoyeh, Jude N. (2022)
Starches have been shown to be important across various disciplines such as the pharmaceutical industries, food industries and also paper industries. Starch is basically a mixture of polymers consisting of α-D-glucose as the monomeric unit. The goal of this study is to modify the native starches which were obtained from Zea mays, Triticumestivum and Oriza sativa through cross-linking (using sucrose and formaldehyde at different concentrations) and also to assess the utilizability of the modified starches as potential excipients [binder] for tableting of paracetamol. 
