Special Issue "Recent Advances in Functional Biopolymers for Food Packaging and Biomedical Applications"
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Coatings for Food Technology and System".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 29 February 2024 | Viewed by 24232
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food packaging; biopolymers; active packaging; smart packaging; bionanocomposites; nanomaterials; sustainable materials; coatings; shelf life enhancement
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: biomaterials; biopolymers; biocomposite; food packaging
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: biomaterials; nanotechnology; food packaging; tissue engineering; nanocomposites
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: food technology; food packaging; functional biopolymers
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Almost 70 years after the discovery of non-degradable synthetic plastics, humans are struggling with the problem of municipal waste disposal, increased carbon footprint, global warming, and other environmental deterioration, which necessitates the development of eco-friendly materials for versatile applications. Biopolymers derived from various natural agro-waste sources are gaining popularity in a plethora of applications such as food packaging, biomedicals, cosmetics, agriculture, waste-water treatment, textiles, electronics, and so on. Even though biopolymers are degradable and have shown immense potential as alternatives to synthetic non-degradable plastics, they lag in physicochemical and functional properties compared to their synthetic counterparts.
Nevertheless, they possess unique advantages, such as natural abundance, robust structures, hydrophilicity, water solubility, multiple active sites, self-cleaning, lightweight, mechanical flexibilities, biocompatibility, biodegradability, non-toxicity, renewability, low cost, and so on. Moreover, the other properties can be ameliorated by the addition of functional materials such as nanoparticles or natural extracts. Functional biopolymer composites have been promising materials for developing environmentally friendly and sustainable food packaging and biomedical applications. However, even after more than a decade of research in this area, there are hardly any commercialized products in the market.
This Special Issue is focused on a congregation of crucial developments in the biopolymer and biomaterials research leading to their improved physicochemical and functional properties for multifaceted applications. We intend to reach the readers not only from academia, but also from industries, and provide them with the frontier advances in this research area which could facilitate commercialization. The purpose of this research topic is to promote the development of applications involving biodegradable, renewable polymers and biomaterials to various aspects touching human life directly or indirectly.
In particular, the topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Synthesis and characterization of biopolymers and biomaterials.
- Extraction, utilization, and value-addition of biomaterials from waste resources.
- Engineering biopolymers and biomaterials aimed at amelioration of their physicochemical and functional properties.
- Applications of biomaterials in sustainable food packaging, edible packaging, and biomedical engineering.
- Degradation of biomaterials and biopolymers in natural or nature-mimicking environment.
Dr. Ruchir Priyadarshi
Dr. Swarup Roy
Dr. Shiv Dutt Purohit
Dr. Tabli Ghosh
Guest Editors
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