With the rising demand for fresh and ready-to-eat foods, antimicrobial packaging has been
developed to control or prevent microbial growth as well as maintain food quality and safety …

In the context of agricultural sustainability and the necessity for food security, using nano
pesticides as an innovative technology represents an alternative with good potential to …

Chitosan edible films and coatings have shown great promise for their application in food
preservation and also are promising systems to be used as essential oil (EO) carriers. This …

In the past decades, as alternative to the petroleum based products, biodegradable
polymers, such as chitosan, have undergone extensive investigation in order to minimize …

The essential oil (EO) from basil—Ocimum basilicum—was characterized,
microencapsulated by vibration technology, and used to prepare a new type of packaging …

Background Lipid oxidation is one of the main causes of food spoilage. It can be delayed by
the addition of antioxidants to food or by using vacuum or modified atmosphere packaging …

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 …

Durable chitosan-based coating material used as a barrier for slow-release fertilizers in the
agricultural soil. This approach decreases the intense usage of fertilizer and works on their …

The aim of this research was to prepare of bionanocomposite films based on chitosan (CH)
incorporated with Carum copticum essential oil and reinforced with cellulose nanofibers …

In this work, chitosan, gelatin and methylcellulose films incorporated with tannic acid (TA)
were synthesised, characterised and applied for the first time to preserve cherry tomatoes …