Kırbıyık Kurukavak, Ç.2025-02-102025-02-10202497803239602129780323960205https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-96020-5.00015-7https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13091/9881The detrimental effects of plastics on the environment and the demand for alternative resources to conventional petroleum-based synthetic polymers increase the interest in biopolymers in industrial and academic areas. Bionanocomposites with improved properties have attracted attention to meet the demand of ecological, lightweight, biocompatible, biodegradable, sustainable and renewable materials. Bionanocomposites prepared by the incorporation of nanofillers have been received a growing attention over the last decades since this is an effective approach to improve the thermo-mechanical and barrier properties of biopolymers. Today, the developing new bionanocomposites prepared by the incorporation of different nanofillers and their fully characterization are important to achieve desired modern technology requirements. Therefore, an appropriate set of characterization should be implemented to illuminate the nature of interaction between the nanofiller and the incorporated biopolymer matrix. In this section, the details of the main types of thermal and morphological characterization techniques to investigate bionanocomposites are overviewed. © 2024 Elsevier Ltd. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessBionanocompositesMorphological characterizationNanofillerThermal characterizationBook Part10.1016/B978-0-323-96020-5.00015-72-s2.0-85208888806