Rice, has long been an inseparable part of the human diet all over the world. As one of the
most rapidly growing crops, rice has played a key role in securing the food chain of low …

Food preservation is mostly related to packaging in oil-based plastics, inducing
environmental problems, but this drawback could be limited by using edible/biodegradable …

Abstract The new Food Safety Modernization Act requires the fresh-cut industry to have
preventive strategies for preventing and reducing pathogen contamination in fresh-cut …

Starch films can be a great alternative for non-degradable conventional plastic films as
packaging materials. Packaging material, besides relevant properties such as mechanical or …

Concern about environmental issues has motivated research into the development of
biodegradable packaging from renewable sources. Natural polymers such as starch …

The surface properties and microstructure of films composed of chemically modified cassava
starches (cross-linked, acetylated and doubly modified) were evaluated in this study. The …

The complexation between nanoliposomes (NL) and potato starch (PS) was investigated to
evaluate the improvement of PS ability to stabilize the Pickering emulsion. The visual …

This study focused on the development of cross-linked poly (ester urethane)/starch (PEUST)
composites containing 50 wt% starch content for food-packaging materials. The NCO …

Undoubtedly the applications of polymers are rapidly evolving. Technology is continually
changing and quickly advancing as polymers are needed to solve a variety of day-to-day …

Adding reinforced fiber or cross-linking agent into thermoplastic starch (TPS) is an effective
method to improve its performance. Herein, biodegradable polyvinyl alcohol fiber (PVAF) …