Many home and personal care products, coatings and adhesives, and agrochemicals, need to become biodegradable. Polysaccharides offer many advantages for developing such products. However, often performance requirements are conflicting with biodegradability. This project aims to explore biobased functional linkers for the modification of residual polysaccharides to dispersion products with a high degree of modularity, thus enabling specific material properties and sufficient biodegradability.

The objective of ARCADE is to develop sustainable methods for achieving innovative, modular polysaccharide
modification and deliver proof that the concept can combine the required product stability and functionality
during production, storage and use, and at the same time show improved (bio)degradation at end-of-life to
prevent environmental accumulation.