Recent years have witnessed great developments in biobased polymer packaging films for
the serious environmental problems caused by the petroleum-based nonbiodegradable …

Chitosan is obtained from chitin, which could be considered to be the most abundant
polymer after cellulose. Owing to these properties, chitosan alone or chitosan-based …

Two dimensional (2D) graphene and its derivatives modification with nanomaterials for
formation of hybrid/nanocomposites undergo stimulus-induced optical and electrical …

Remarkable advancements in material technologies have accelerated the use of many new
materials and their hybrids and composites in diverse applications. Among such available …

The aim of this work was to develop bionanocomposites based on chitosan/montmorillonite
(MMT) incorporated with rosemary essential oil (REO) and to evaluate its activity as primary …

In recent years, there has been a growing attempt to manipulate various properties of
biodegradable materials to use them as alternatives to their synthetic plastic counterparts …

Plasticized polyvinyl chloride (PVC) has been widely used in the world. Petroleum-based
plasticizers especially phthalates have been the most common plasticizers used in PVC …

Chitosan, obtained by deacetylation of chitin, is widely available, biocompatible and
biodegradable polysaccharide. In the same way, nanoclays have been reported to be …

Starch-chitosan blend films are considered promising raw materials for producing active
food packaging film, especially by adding active compounds such as essential oil. Active …

Biodegradable films composed of starch and chitosan plasticized by palm oil were
fabricated via a solvent casting technique. In this study, the influence of the ratio of brown …