Background Demand for healthy and safe food with minimal use of synthetic inputs
(including synthetic preservatives) is increasing rapidly. Plastic polymers being hazardous to …

Chitin is one of the most abundant natural polysaccharides in the world and it is mainly used
for the production of chitosan by a deacetylation process. Chitosan is a bioactive polymer …

Deep eutectic solvents (DES) as plasticizers of chitosan film show great potential for food
packaging. This paper introduced some novel antioxidant and antibacterial films based on …

The current work aims to prepare biologically active and pH responsive smart films based on
Chitosan (CS)/Methylcellulose (MC) matrix integrated with Phyllanthus reticulatus (PR) ripen …

Maximizing the waste valorization of renewable resources to develop biocomposite
materials is highly desirable regarding environmental sustainability and food chain security …

Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are a new class of solvents that can offset some of the major
drawbacks of common solvents and ionic liquids. When dealing with the preparation of …

Polymeric materials, in particular PVC, can find various industrial utilizations thanks to the
use of plasticizers added during their processing. The most famous applications include …

This paper concerns novel, biodegradable and nontoxic materials for food-packaging. In
order to obtain these properties, chitosan (Ch) and choline chloride (ChCl)-based deep …

Chitosan is a promising material that could be used for the development of edible coatings
and films on an industrial level because of its film-forming, biodegradable, non-toxic, and …

In this study, chitosan film incorporating tulsi essential oil (TEO) with good antioxidant
properties was solvent casted as an antioxidant packaging film. The antioxidant films were …