Food Packaging

Alexandru Grumezescu

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9780128043738
• Topic: Design
• Subtopic: Industrial Design

Food Packaging: Nanotechnology in the Agri-Food Industry, Volume 7, focuses on the development of novel nanobiomaterials, the enhancement of barrier performance of non-degradable and biodegradable plastics, and their fabrication and application in food packaging.

The book brings together fundamental information and the most recent advances in the synthesis, design, and impact of alternative food packaging. Special attention is offered on smart materials and nanodevices that are able to detect quality parameters in packaged food, such as freshness, degradation, and contamination, etc.

In addition, ecological approaches aiming to obtain bioplastics packages from waste materials are highlighted and discussed as a novel approach in modern food packaging. Nonetheless, this volume presents the advances made in biodegradable and bioactive packaging utilized for preserving flavor, nutritious ingredients, and therapeutic food compounds.

• Includes fabrication techniques, such as nanofiber films, nanocoating, nanocompositing, multi-layered structures, and layer-by-layer nanoassemblies based on synthetic and bio-based polymers
• Presents the latest information on new biodegradeable materials using fabrication of new high barrier plastics to enhance research
• Provides examples of risk assessment for nanomaterials for food safety and the benefits of antimicrobial food packaging

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• List of Contributors
• Series foreword
• Series preface
• Volume preface
• 1: Nanotechnological strategies yielding high-barrier plastic food packaging
• 2: High barrier composite materials based on renewable sources for food packaging applications
• 3: Bionanocomposites: smart biodegradable packaging material for food preservation
• 4: Encapsulation of sensors for intelligent packaging
• 5: Fabrication of high-barrier plastics and its application in food packaging
• 6: Biodegradable food packaging nanocomposites based on ZnO-reinforced polyhydroxyalkanoates
• 7: Bioplastics from agro-wastes for food packaging applications
• 8: Study of the structure/property relationship of nanomaterials for development of novel food packaging
• 9: Bioactive food packaging with nanodiamond particles manufactured by detonation and plasma-chemical methods
• 10: Biodegradable polymernanocomposites for packaging applications
• 11: Flexible packaging for nonthermal decontamination by high hydrostatic pressure
• 12: An overview of nanoparticles role in the improvement of barrier properties of bioplastics for food packaging applications
• 13: Biopolymer/clay nanocomposites as the high barrier packaging material: recent advances
• 14: Barrier properties improvement using additives
• 15: Metal nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes—perfect antimicrobial nano-fillers in polymer-based food packaging materials
• 16: New approaches and future aspects of antibacterial food packaging: from nanoparticles coating to nanofibers and nanocomposites, with foresight to address the regulatory uncertainty
• 17: Nanoencapsulation of flavor and aromas in food packaging
• 18: Polypropylene/talc nanocomposites films as low-cost barrier materials for food packaging
• 19: The influence of nanofillers on physical–chemical properties of polysaccharide-based film intended for food packaging
• 20: High barrier graphene/polymer nanocomposite films
• Subject Index