[HTML][HTML] Sustainable and bio-based food packaging: A review on past and current design innovations

F Versino, F Ortega, Y Monroy, S Rivero, OV López… - Foods, 2023 - mdpi.com
Food loss and waste occur for many reasons, from crop processing to household leftovers.
Even though some waste generation is unavoidable, a considerable amount is due to …

[HTML][HTML] Coffee by-products and their suitability for developing active food packaging materials

G Oliveira, CP Passos, P Ferreira, MA Coimbra… - Foods, 2021 - mdpi.com
The coffee industry generates a wide variety of by-products derived from green coffee
processing (pulp, mucilage, parchment, and husk) and roasting (silverskin and spent coffee …

Preparation and properties of biodegradable films made of cationic potato-peel starch and loaded with curcumin

Y Liu, M Liu, L Zhang, W Cao, H Wang, G Chen… - Food …, 2022 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study was to develop biodegradable films made of cationic potato starch-
derivatives and loaded with curcumin. Potato starch was recovered from potato peel waste …

[HTML][HTML] Design of heat sealable starch-chitosan bioplastics reinforced with reduced graphene oxide for active food packaging

Z Alves, NM Ferreira, P Ferreira, C Nunes - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2022 - Elsevier
Interest in producing films from renewable and biodegradable polymers, such as
polysaccharides, has increased in recent years with the aim of reducing the environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Preparation and characterization of self-standing biofilms from compatible pectin/starch blends: Effect of pectin structure

W Bai, NP Vidal, L Roman, G Portillo-Perez… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Pectin structure-miscibility-functionality relationships in starch films remain unknown. In this
study, five citrus pectins (CPs) with 17 to 63% of degree of methyl esterification (DM) and …

Potato peel phenolics as additives for developing active starch-based films with potential to pack smoked fish fillets

J Lopes, I Goncalves, C Nunes, B Teixeira… - Food Packaging and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Starch, due to its thermoplastic capacity, is being explored for developing food packaging
bioplastics. Nevertheless, it gives rise to brittle and hydrophilic materials. To overcome these …

[HTML][HTML] Development and properties of active films based on potato starch modified by low-temperature plasma and enriched with cinnamon essential oil coated with …

Y Guo, Y Cui, M Cheng, R Zhang, Z Zhao, X Wang… - Lwt, 2022 - Elsevier
Potato starch dispersion was modified with low-temperature plasma (LTP) and cinnamon
essential oil (CEO) was successfully loaded into mesoporous nano-silica particles (SBA-15) …

[HTML][HTML] Starch-based films doped with porphyrinoid photosensitizers for active skin wound healing

P Lopes, ASM Joaquinito, A Ribeiro, NMM Moura… - Carbohydrate …, 2023 - Elsevier
Starch is a biodegradable and biocompatible carbohydrate that, when combined with
bioactive molecules, can be processed as biomimetic platforms with enhanced performance …

[HTML][HTML] Reinforcement of starch film with Castanea sativa shells polysaccharides: optimized formulation and characterization

L Amaral, F Rodrigues, A Silva, P Costa… - Food Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Chestnut (Castanea sativa) shells, generated from the peeling process of the fruit, contains
appreciable amounts of lignin and cellulose. In this work, a starch-based film reinforced with …

[HTML][HTML] Reprocessability of PLA through chain extension for fused filament fabrication

C Correia, TEP Gomes, I Gonçalves, V Neto - Journal of Manufacturing …, 2022 - mdpi.com
As additive manufacturing (AM) technologies have been gaining popularity in the plastic
processing sector, it has become a major concern to establish closed-loop recycling …