Major factors affecting the characteristics of starch based biopolymer films

S Agarwal - European Polymer Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
Starch is the most important widely spread polysaccharide used for the synthesis of
biopolymer film. Renewable source, abundance, cost effectiveness and excellent film …

Progress in starch-based materials for food packaging applications

L García-Guzmán, G Cabrera-Barjas… - Polysaccharides, 2022 - mdpi.com
The food packaging sector generates large volumes of plastic waste due to the high demand
for packaged products with a short shelf-life. Biopolymers such as starch-based materials …

Starch-based nano-biocomposites

F Xie, E Pollet, PJ Halley, L Avérous - Progress in polymer science, 2013 - Elsevier
The last decade has seen the development of green materials, which intends to reduce the
human impact on the environment. Green polymers are obviously tendency subset of this …

Nanotechnologies in the food industry–Recent developments, risks and regulation

M Cushen, J Kerry, M Morris, M Cruz-Romero… - Trends in food science & …, 2012 - Elsevier
Recent research has highlighted the potential for nanotechnologies' use in wide ranging
food applications, including improving supplements, novel food packaging, increasing the …

Edible and biodegradable starch films: a review

A Jimenez, MJ Fabra, P Talens, A Chiralt - Food and Bioprocess …, 2012 - Springer
Mainly due to environmental aims, petroleum-based plastics are being replaced by natural
polymers. In the last decades, starch has been evaluated in its film-forming ability for …

A review on blending of corn starch with natural and synthetic polymers, and inorganic nanoparticles with mathematical modeling

S Tabasum, M Younas, MA Zaeem, I Majeed… - International journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Maize or corn is considered as very distinctive plant. Corn having better capability of utilizing
sun light, is a noble way of getting a natural polymer known as starch. Amylopectin and …

Antimicrobial nanostructured starch based films for packaging

AS Abreu, M Oliveira, A de Sá, RM Rodrigues… - Carbohydrate …, 2015 - Elsevier
Montmorillonite modified with a quaternary ammonium salt C30B/starch nanocomposite
(C30B/ST-NC), silver nanoparticles/starch nanocomposite (Ag-NPs/ST-NC) and both silver …

Functionality and applicability of starch-based films: An eco-friendly approach

SP Bangar, SS Purewal, M Trif, S Maqsood, M Kumar… - Foods, 2021 - mdpi.com
The accumulation of high amounts of petro-based plastics is a growing environmental
devastation issue, leading to the urgent need to innovate eco-safe packaging materials at an …

Thermoplastic starch processing and characteristics—a review

Y Zhang, C Rempel, Q Liu - Critical reviews in food science and …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Canola Council of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada The rising costs of nonrenewable
feedstocks and environmental concerns with their industrial usage have encouraged the …

Effect of ZnO nanoparticles on the mechanical, barrier and optical properties of thermoplastic cationic starch/montmorillonite biodegradable films

K Vaezi, G Asadpour, H Sharifi - International journal of biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, various amounts of nanoclay montmorillonite (MMT) and ZnO nanopowders
were used to analyze the properties of biodegradable nanocomposites of cationic starch …