Plastics lecithin applications

Manufacturers treat the crude oily lecithin in various ways and extract products with various degrees of purity and specificity. Products such as plastic lecithins, deoiled lecithins, phosphatidyl choline-enriched lecithins, pure phosphatidylcholines (>98% PC), phosphatidylserines (PS) phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), phosphatidylinositol (PI), and phosphatidic acids (PA) mixture of fatty acids or mixtures of phospholipids with any particular fatty acid have been separated and are commercially available. Prices range from less than 1 per kilogram (crude lecithins) to thousands of U.S. dollars (pure selected fatty acid PC or PS). The inexpensive mixtures are widely used in food applications, and the purified lipids are used in very sophisticated pharmaceutical applications for drug stabilization, delivery, and targeting. 

More recent work on inclusion of lecithin in plastics has focused on applications in the medical field. Phospholipids can be used as plasticizers or release agents in... 

Lecithin is a naturally occurring group of phospholipids which is widely recoghnized as a versatile surfactant for use in industrial applications such as magnetic media, cosmetics, wire manufacture, paint, automotive, construc-tlomn, plastic molding and agricultural chemicals. The primary commercial source of lecithin comes from soybeans. 

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