Bio-sourced polymers as alternatives to conventional food packaging materials: A review

S Sid, RS Mor, A Kishore, VS Sharanagat - Trends in Food Science & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The role of plastic packaging in protecting food is quite appreciable, but the
problems like non-biodegradable nature, recycling issues, and leaching of harmful …

Polymeric nanocomposites for environmental and industrial applications

MSA Darwish, MH Mostafa, LM Al-Harbi - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Polymeric nanocomposites (PNC) have an outstanding potential for various applications as
the integrated structure of the PNCs exhibits properties that none of its component materials …

Functional properties of clay nanofillers used in the biopolymer-based composite films for active food packaging applications-Review

V Dharini, SP Selvam, J Jayaramudu… - Applied Clay Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Biocomposite films (derived from polysaccharides, proteins, gums and microbial origin) have
poor physical and mechanical properties. The nonbiodegradable synthetic polymers have …

Removal of cadmium and chromium by mixture of silver nanoparticles and nano-fibrillated cellulose isolated from waste peels of citrus sinensis

N Tavker, VK Yadav, KK Yadav, MMS Cabral-Pinto… - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Nano-fibrillated cellulose (NFC) was extracted by a chemical method involving alkali and
acid hydrolysis. The characterisation of the citrus sinensis fruit peel bran and nano-fibrillated …

Cellulose–chitosan biodegradable materials for insulating applications

L Lujan, ML Goñi, RE Martini - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Bio-based lightweight porous materials have attracted attention due to their unique
properties and have become an interesting alternative to petroleum-based foams such as …

Fabrication of porous spherical beads from corn starch by using a 3D food printing system

S Ahmadzadeh, A Ubeyitogullari - Foods, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study introduces a 3D food printing approach to fabricate spherical starch beads with
small sizes and high porosity for the first time. The results illustrated that 3D food printing …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing mechanical properties of clay aerogel composites: An overview

OA Madyan, M Fan, L Feo, D Hui - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
While aerogel is a new classification of materials and considered most promising candidate
for the advanced thermal insulation, clay aerogel shows significant potentials as it is natural …

Characterization and properties of hybrid foams from nanocellulose and kaolin-microfibrillated cellulose composite

AS González-Ugarte, I Hafez, M Tajvidi - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Hybrid nanocellulose-based foams are a desirable class of low-density and porous
materials for their potential in many applications. This study aims at characterizing and …

Polysaccharides as composite biomaterials

IF Wahab, SI Abd Razak - Composites from renewable and …, 2016 - books.google.com
Polysaccharide‐based composite materials have been the recent research focus in the field
of material science and engineering because of their biocompatibility, renewability, and …

Blown films fabrication of poly lactic acid based biocomposites: Thermomechanical and migration studies

T Ghosh, SM Bhasney, V Katiyar - Materials Today Communications, 2020 - Elsevier
The article addresses the modification of Poly lactic acid (PLA) based blown films using
modified biofillers of chitosan (CS), gum Arabic (GA), with a cross-linking agent dicumyl …