Innovative Materials for Sustainable Food Packaging: Chemistry, Design, and Applications
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 381
Special Issue Editors
Interests: bioactive polysaccharides; structural modification; food analysis; food nutrition; food packaging
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Interests: polyphenols; polysaccharides; food packaging; metabolic diseases; gut microbiota
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Petrochemical-based plastics are poorly recyclable and have resulted in serious ecological problems. Alternatively, biopolymer-based materials are on the rise due to their excellent biocompatibility and environmental friendliness. Previously, several food packaging materials were fabricated based on natural and structurally modified polysaccharides, proteins, and lipids. Meanwhile, different kinds of reinforcing agents (e.g., antioxidant and antimicrobial agents) have been added into the biopolymer matrix to produce innovative packaging materials.
This Special Issue mainly focuses on food packaging materials based on biopolymers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the design of innovative raw material for food packaging use, the characterization of biopolymer-based food packaging materials, and the applications of biopolymer-based food packaging materials. Both research and review articles on this topic are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Jun Liu
Dr. Juan Kan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- food packaging
- polysaccharides
- proteins
- lipids
- coating
- film
- characterization
- structure
- physicochemical property
- functional property
- application