Physica Scripta • Vol 100 • No 9
Response surface methodological (RSM) approach for optimizing the mechanical properties of starch-based films incorporated with chitosan-encapsulated thymol
2025
Abstract In this study, starch-based films incorporated with glycerol and chitosan-encapsulated thymol (CNP-T) were formulated for potential active packaging applications. The central composite design (CCD) technique was used to formulate the films and 42 runs were generated based on three replications on two factors at five levels, particularly the concentration of glycerol (V1: 0, 6.25, 12.5, 18.75, 25% wt/wt of starch) and concentration of CNP-T (V2: 0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8% wt/v of starch). The optimized values …