Background Cellulose has attracted the interest of the industry since it is the most abundant
natural polysaccharide obtained from natural sources such as wood, cotton and food …

The emergence of clinical complications and therapeutic challenges for treating various
diseases necessitate the discovery of novel restorative functional materials. Polymer-based …

The innovation of this study was to develop a novel biodegradable intelligent packaging
based on chitosan/fucoidan combined with different amounts (1, 3 and 5 wt% on chitosan …

A sodium alginate/chitosan solution was prepared by dissolving sodium alginate, chitosan,
and glycerol in an acetic acid solution. This solution was then combined with a sodium …

Multifunctional food packaging films were produced from crosslinked carboxymethyl
cellulose/gelatin (CMC/Ge) bio-nanocomposites incorporated with Ge-montmorillonite (OM) …

The edible films composed of carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), glycerol, mucilage from
Chinese yam (DOM) and ZnO nanoparticles (ZnO-NPs), were prepared by a casting method …

Gelatin has long been used as an encapsulant agent in the pharmaceutical and biomedical
industries because of its low cost, wide availability, biocompatibility, and degradability …

Seaweed is a prominent source of polysaccharides with extraction processes properly
established, allowing to employ them in several areas. Among all the types of biopolymers …

Edible films based on chitosan biguanidine hydrochloride and CMC were optimized for the
minimum water vapor permeability (WVP) using the 3-level factorial design. Titanium oxide …

This study aimed to evaluate the effect of incorporating different concentrations (0, 200, 300,
and 400 mg L− 1) of avocado peel extracts (EE-AP) on the physicochemical properties and …