Sustainability in e-commerce packaging: A review

S Escursell, P Llorach-Massana, MB Roncero - Journal of cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Online purchasing, and hence e-commerce packaging production and use, have grown
steadily in recent years, and so has their environmental impact as a result. This paper …

Bacterial cellulose–chitosan paper with antimicrobial and antioxidant activities

LV Cabañas-Romero, C Valls, SV Valenzuela… - …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The production of paper-based bacterial cellulose–chitosan (BC–Ch) nanocomposites was
accomplished following two different approaches. In the first, BC paper sheets were …

[HTML][HTML] Promising nanocomposites for food packaging based on cellulose–PCL films reinforced by using ZnO nanoparticles in an ionic liquid

E Amini, C Valls, MB Roncero - Industrial Crops and Products, 2023 - Elsevier
The fact that most composites consist of polluting synthetic materials has prompted a search
for biodegradable replacements based on cellulose fibers and polycaprolactone as potential …

Antioxidant activity of xylooligosaccharides produced from glucuronoxylan by Xyn10A and Xyn30D xylanases and eucalyptus autohydrolysates

C Valls, FIJ Pastor, T Vidal, MB Roncero, P Díaz… - Carbohydrate …, 2018 - Elsevier
Antioxidant activity of xylooligosaccharides (XOS) released from beechwood and birchwood
glucuronoxylans by two different xylanases, one from family GH10 (Xyn10A) and another …

Development of an antimicrobial bioactive paper made from bacterial cellulose

C Buruaga-Ramiro, SV Valenzuela, C Valls… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Bacterial cellulose (BC) has emerged as an attractive adsorptive material for antimicrobial
agents due to its fine network structure, its large surface area, and its high porosity. In the …

Lignin particles for multifunctional membranes, antioxidative microfiltration, patterning, and 3D structuring

O Cusola, OJ Rojas, MB Roncero - ACS applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We introduce a new type of particle-based membrane based on the combination of lignin
particles (LPs) and cellulose nanofibrils (CNF), the latter of which are introduced in small …

Enzymatic modification of cellulose to unlock its exploitation in advanced materials

A Martinelli, L Giannini, P Branduardi - ChemBioChem, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nowadays natural biopolymers have a wide variety of uses in various industrial applications,
such as food, adhesives and composite materials. Among them, cellulose has attracted the …

Ionic liquid/ZnO assisted preparation of high barrier cellulose nanocomposite films by in situ ring-opening polymerization of lactide monomers

E Amini, C Valls, H Yousefi, MB Roncero - Journal of Polymers and the …, 2023 - Springer
Cellulose-based composites have aroused increasing interest as potential replacements for
fossil fuel-based plastics. In this work, transparent cellulose-grafted-PLA nanocomposite …

Cellulose oxidation by Laccase-TEMPO treatments

E Quintana, MB Roncero, T Vidal, C Valls - Carbohydrate polymers, 2017 - Elsevier
In this work, laccase-TEMPO (Lac-T) treatments were applied to bleached commercial
dissolving pulp in order to introduce carbonyl and carboxyl groups, which were found to …

Application of the QUENCHER methodology to the food industry

M Henrion, M Servaes, F Thielecke, V Fogliano - Food chemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
The QUENCHER method is a time and cost-saving extraction-free procedure measuring in
vitro antioxidant capacity which appears highly relevant from an industrial perspective …