This result is another indication of the presence of thymol after processing. In this sense, the amounts of thymol, calculated by TGA (Table 2), were similar in all cases to values obtained from the quantification study discussed in the previous section. The initial degradation temperature (Tini),determined at 5% of weight loss, and maximum degradation temperature
(Tmax) of the PLA degradation process are also shown in Table 2. No noticeable differences were observed for Tini and Tmax values in the materials studied. These results showed the addition of thymol and D43B did not significantly affect the nano-biocomposites thermal degradation profile