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Polysaccharide-Based Nanocomposites for Food Packaging Applications

The article presents a review of the literature on the use of polysaccharide bionanocomposites in the context of their potential use as food packaging materials. Composites of this type consist of at least two phases, of which the outer phase is a polysaccharide, and the inner phase (dispersed phase...

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Autores principales: Pal, Kunal, Sarkar, Preetam, Anis, Arfat, Wiszumirska, Karolina, Jarzębski, Maciej
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8509663/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34639945
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14195549
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author Pal, Kunal
Sarkar, Preetam
Anis, Arfat
Wiszumirska, Karolina
Jarzębski, Maciej
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description The article presents a review of the literature on the use of polysaccharide bionanocomposites in the context of their potential use as food packaging materials. Composites of this type consist of at least two phases, of which the outer phase is a polysaccharide, and the inner phase (dispersed phase) is an enhancing agent with a particle size of 1–100 nm in at least one dimension. The literature review was carried out using data from the Web of Science database using VosViewer, free software for scientometric analysis. Source analysis concluded that polysaccharides such as chitosan, cellulose, and starch are widely used in food packaging applications, as are reinforcing agents such as silver nanoparticles and cellulose nanostructures (e.g., cellulose nanocrystals and nanocellulose). The addition of reinforcing agents improves the thermal and mechanical stability of the polysaccharide films and nanocomposites. Here we highlighted the nanocomposites containing silver nanoparticles, which exhibited antimicrobial properties. Finally, it can be concluded that polysaccharide-based nanocomposites have sufficient properties to be tested as food packaging materials in a wide spectrum of applications.
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spelling pubmed-85096632021-10-13 Polysaccharide-Based Nanocomposites for Food Packaging Applications Pal, Kunal Sarkar, Preetam Anis, Arfat Wiszumirska, Karolina Jarzębski, Maciej Materials (Basel) Review The article presents a review of the literature on the use of polysaccharide bionanocomposites in the context of their potential use as food packaging materials. Composites of this type consist of at least two phases, of which the outer phase is a polysaccharide, and the inner phase (dispersed phase) is an enhancing agent with a particle size of 1–100 nm in at least one dimension. The literature review was carried out using data from the Web of Science database using VosViewer, free software for scientometric analysis. Source analysis concluded that polysaccharides such as chitosan, cellulose, and starch are widely used in food packaging applications, as are reinforcing agents such as silver nanoparticles and cellulose nanostructures (e.g., cellulose nanocrystals and nanocellulose). The addition of reinforcing agents improves the thermal and mechanical stability of the polysaccharide films and nanocomposites. Here we highlighted the nanocomposites containing silver nanoparticles, which exhibited antimicrobial properties. Finally, it can be concluded that polysaccharide-based nanocomposites have sufficient properties to be tested as food packaging materials in a wide spectrum of applications. MDPI 2021-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8509663/ /pubmed/34639945 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14195549 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Polysaccharide-Based Nanocomposites for Food Packaging Applications
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8509663/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34639945
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14195549
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