Advanced Active Films for Food Packaging: Design, Properties and Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2024 | Viewed by 43
Special Issue Editor
Interests: permeation/sorption processes; nanostructured films; multiphase/multilayer polymer materials; nanomaterials; biobased polymers
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last few years, food packaging has been constantly evolving to protect foods from the environment—such as microbial contamination and environmental attacks—and to extend the shelf-life of packed products while incorporating current concerns such as sustainability to avoid negative impacts on ecosystems. Fitting into the framework of a circular economy is necessary to protect the environment. Moreover, innovative designs and formulations for biodegradable food packaging with improved properties represent requirements to meet consumer needs. From an industrial point of view, this innovative packaging based on biobased materials must be economically viable and compatible with conventional production processes. Recently, different polymeric active packaging films have been developed with new antibacterial and antioxidant properties, along with improved thermal and barrier properties. This Special Issue aims to collect manuscripts dealing with novel approaches to the design, characterization, and modeling of active food packaging films with improved or novel properties such as antibacterial, antimicrobial, thermal, and barrier properties. A focus on the design of biodegradable packaging or on the development and application of innovative methodologies and modeling approaches is expected. Original research articles, reviews, letters to the editor, and short communications are welcome.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Nadege Follain
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- food packaging
- active packaging films
- biodegradable packaging
- antimicrobial agents
- antioxidant agents
- food preservation
- encapsulation
- thermal properties
- barrier properties
- modeling
