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View article: Eco-Friendly Packaging for Functional Food
Eco-Friendly Packaging for Functional Food Open
Eco-friendly packaging for functional foods aims to reduce environmental impact while maintaining product integrity and ensuring consumer safety. Both the food industry and consumers must transition toward packaging solutions that are sust…
View article: Food Functional Powders with Redox Capacity and Antioxidant Properties Obtained from Food Losses and Waste of Olive Oil Industry
Food Functional Powders with Redox Capacity and Antioxidant Properties Obtained from Food Losses and Waste of Olive Oil Industry Open
Food powders were produced from olive pomace (Coratina, COP, and Arbequina, AOP) using freeze-drying with maltodextrin (MD) and native corn starch (NS) as wall materials in varying proportions. Optical microscopy revealed that OP was parti…
View article: Sprayable starch films for agricultural mulching
Sprayable starch films for agricultural mulching Open
Environmental sustainability has driven research into the development of biodegradable materials to address ecological challenges. In this study, biodegradable sprayable films were produced from thermally gelatinized cassava starch suspens…
View article: Films of Poly(Hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) and Copper with Antibacterial Activity
Films of Poly(Hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) and Copper with Antibacterial Activity Open
Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate), PHB, is a hydrophobic biopolymer with good mechanical and barrier properties. However, neat PHB is a semicrystalline polymer with a relative high degree of crystallinity and poor film properties. In this work, this…
View article: Sustainable and Bio-Based Food Packaging: A Review on Past and Current Design Innovations
Sustainable and Bio-Based Food Packaging: A Review on Past and Current Design Innovations Open
Food loss and waste occur for many reasons, from crop processing to household leftovers. Even though some waste generation is unavoidable, a considerable amount is due to supply chain inefficiencies and damage during transport and handling…
View article: Breeding system and geospatial variation shape the population genetics of <i>Triodanis perfoliata</i>
Breeding system and geospatial variation shape the population genetics of <i>Triodanis perfoliata</i> Open
Both intrinsic and extrinsic forces work together to shape connectivity and genetic variation in populations across the landscape. Here we explored how geography, breeding system traits, and environmental factors influence the population g…
View article: Economic feasibility of exploitation of a bioethanol by-product to obtain high-value biopolymers
Economic feasibility of exploitation of a bioethanol by-product to obtain high-value biopolymers Open
By-products of bioethanol production, such as vinasse can be transformed by biotechnological processes into valuable compounds. In this work, the economic feasibility of producing poly(hydroxyalcanoate)s (PHAs) from vinasse and diverse mic…
View article: Vinasse: From A Residue To A High Added Value Biopolymer
Vinasse: From A Residue To A High Added Value Biopolymer Open
This work aimed to study the feasibility to use vinasse for polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) production by Bacillus megaterium. To optimize the culture medium, a Box Behnken design was employed considering carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus…
View article: Antioxidant Efficiency of Irganox® 1010 on Processing and Properties of Plasticized Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate) Films
Antioxidant Efficiency of Irganox® 1010 on Processing and Properties of Plasticized Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate) Films Open
Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) is one of the few biopolymers that can be processed at industrial scale. Nevertheless, PHB applications in film form are limited, mainly due to the high biopolymer crystallinity and its narrow thermal processing w…
View article: Flexible Thermoplastic Starch Films Functionalized With Copper Particles for Packaging of Food Products
Flexible Thermoplastic Starch Films Functionalized With Copper Particles for Packaging of Food Products Open
Biodegradable films based on thermoplastic corn starch (TPS) and copper particles with antimicrobial capacity were developed. Copper nanoparticles (Cu) and silica coated copper microparticles (Si-Cu) in the range of 0.25 to 5 % were used. …
View article: Flexible Thermoplastic Starch Films Functionalized With Copper Particles for Packaging of Food Products
Flexible Thermoplastic Starch Films Functionalized With Copper Particles for Packaging of Food Products Open
Biodegradable films based on thermoplastic corn starch (TPS) and copper particles with antimicrobial capacity were developed. Copper nanoparticles (Cu) and silica coated copper microparticles (Si-Cu) in the range of 0.25 to 5 % were used. …
View article: Flexible Thermoplastic Starch Films Functionalized With Copper Particles for Packaging of Food Products
Flexible Thermoplastic Starch Films Functionalized With Copper Particles for Packaging of Food Products Open
Biodegradable films based on thermoplastic corn starch (TPS) and copper particles with antimicrobial capacity were developed. Copper nanoparticles (Cu) and silica coated copper microparticles (Si-Cu) in the range of 0.25 to 5 % were used. …
View article: Crystalline morphology of thermoplastic starch/talc nanocomposites induced by thermal processing
Crystalline morphology of thermoplastic starch/talc nanocomposites induced by thermal processing Open
A structural study about the changes induced by plasticization of native corn starch was carried out in this work. The influence of talc nanoparticles presence during starch thermal processing was also evaluated. Macroscopic observation of…
View article: Biodegradable films based on thermoplastic starch and chitosan with antimicrobial activity employed as active packaging
Biodegradable films based on thermoplastic starch and chitosan with antimicrobial activity employed as active packaging Open
One of the research lines related to active packaging takes into account the incorporation of antimicrobial agents such as chitosan, a polysaccharide derived from the crustaceans’ exoskeleton. However, because of chitosan high molar mass, …
View article: Effect of bentonite addition on the optical properties of different polymeric composites materials
Effect of bentonite addition on the optical properties of different polymeric composites materials Open
In this work, composite materials were obtained by the incorporation of bentonite to biodegradable and synthetic polymeric matrices. Commercial (BE) and natural (BM) bentonite samples were employed, as well as three different polymeric mat…
View article: Processing–properties–applications relationship of nanocomposites based on thermoplastic corn starch and talc
Processing–properties–applications relationship of nanocomposites based on thermoplastic corn starch and talc Open
Films based on thermoplastic corn starch (TPS) and talc nanoparticles were developed by melt mixing and thermo‐compression. Films structure, optical and barrier properties, as well as thermal stability and water sorption behavior were stud…
View article: Starch‐based films and food coatings: An overview
Starch‐based films and food coatings: An overview Open
Native and modified starches have received considerable attention for biodegradable films formulation due to their completely biodegradable nature, edible characteristics, and low cost. Development and characterization of starch films obta…