In this study, sago starch (chosen arbitrarily)
was grafted
with acrylonitrile
in the presence
of ceric ammonium nitrate
as an initiator.
During grafting, free radicals as well as starch
microradicals were formed (Gonera, 2004, chap. 3; Kimura &
Imoto, 1960; Li, Ge, & Cho, 2013)