Background Synthetic plastics are extremely versatile and convenient materials that can be
used to create a diversity of useful products, but their widespread use is causing increasing …

The greater awareness of non-renewable natural resources preservation needs has led to
the development of more ecological high-performance polymeric materials with new …

Heteroatom-doped carbon dot (CD)-reinforced flexible, antioxidant, and UV-resistant
polymeric thin films have been fabricated by a facile physical compounding strategy …

For the last decades, nanocomposites materials have been widely studied in the scientific
literature as they provide substantial properties enhancements, even at low nanoparticles …

The massive use of synthetic plastics, in particular in the food packaging area, has a great
environmental impact, and alternative more ecologic materials are being required. Poly …

In this work, κ-carrageenan bionanocomposite films were prepared by solution casting of a
mixture of κ-carrageenan, glycerol, and various amounts of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs, 0 …

In this research, potato starch and TiO 2 nanoparticles (0.5, 1 and 2 wt%) films were
developed. Influences of different concentrations of TiO 2 on the functional properties of …

Sweet potato starch and different celluloses were mixed by thermoplastic extrusion and then
thermoplastic starch/cellulose composite films were prepared using a casting method. The …

Starches from different vegetal sources (tuber, cereal and legume) were plasticized with an
invariant glycerol content and reinforced with cellulose nanocrystals by solution casting …

In this study, green composite films based on cellulose nanocrystal/chitosan (CNC/CS) were
fabricated by solution casting. FTIR, XRD, SEM, and TEM characterizations were conducted …