Food packaging is designed to protect foods, to provide required information about the food,
and to make food handling convenient for distribution to consumers. Packaging has a crucial …

Special properties of the polymeric nanomaterials (nanoscale size, large surface area to
mass ratio and high reactivity individualize them in food packaging materials. They can be …

To tackle antimicrobial resistance, a global threat identified by the United Nations, is a
common cause of healthcare-associated infections (HAI) and is responsible for significant …

Chitosan-based composites play an important role in food packaging applications and can
be used either as films or as edible coatings. Due to their high costs and lower performance …

In this study, we employed electrospinning to fabricate polylactic acid (PLA)/carbon
nanotubes (CNTs)/chitosan (CS) composite fibers containing different CS contents and …

The effect of chitosan (CH) concentration on the properties of biocomposites containing
plasticized poly (lactic acid)(PLA) with tributyl o-acetyl citrate (ATBC) was studied both in …

Chitosan is a biopolymer originating from renewable resources, with great properties which
make it an attractive candidate for plenty of applications of contemporary interest. By …

The industrial production of chitosan, initiated over 50 years ago, has transformed its
application across diverse industries, agriculture, and medicine. To enhance its properties …

Here we introduce a new method aiming the immobilization of bioactive principles onto
polymeric substrates, combining a surface activation and emulsion entrapment approach …

Chitosan and kojic acid composite films (CHn-KAm) utilizing three chitosan with differing
molecular weights and kojic acid in different ratios were investigated. Results showed that …