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Biodegradable Food Packaging Materials

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Handbook of Biodegradable Materials

Abstract

The nonbiodegradability of synthetic plastics has emerged as one of the main challenges causing concerns among scientific researchers in recent years. Their excess usage as the food packaging material is especially discouraging as these materials have noxious impacts on the environment and human beings. Biodegradable polymers (natural materials capable of undergoing complete biodegradation) have now been considered an efficient alternative to these plastics as the biodegradable polymers efficiently mimic/improve the properties of synthetic polymers required for food packaging applications. Furthermore, discarding these materials in the environment is not a problem as the normal degradation pathways will be more than enough to assimilate these degradable polymers. This chapter aims to organize the literature associated with these specifics into different categories depending on the origin of the biopolymers. The case studies were divided into natural polymers, biopolymers extracted from renewable resources, and synthetic polymers containing monomers extracted from fossil reservoirs. Moreover, the fundamentals associated with the food packaging applications, including preparative methodologies for biodegradable film, properties of the synthesized films, quality check experiments, etc., are discussed in detail for presenting an overview of the said topic. This chapter will act as a guideline for the new researchers having an intention of exploring this field and will present a summary of the recent progress in this field for the currently associated scientific community.

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Abbreviations

13CNMR:

Carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

1HNMR:

Proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

AFM:

Atomic Force Microscopy

Ag:

Silver

ASTM:

American Society of Testing and Materials

CEO:

Clove essential oil

CMC:

Carboxymethyl cellulose

CNCs:

Cellulose nanocrystals

CNFs:

Cellulose nanofibrils

CO2:

Carbon dioxide

CO2PC:

Carbon dioxide permeability coefficient

CS:

Chitosan

CuO:

Copper oxide

DCNP:

Dye-clay hybrid nanopigment

DSC:

Differential scanning calorimetry

EM:

Elastic modulus

FDA:

Food and Drug Administration

FTIR:

Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

H2O:

Water

HSPI:

Hybrid sorubium protein isolate

LAE:

Lauroyl arginate ethyl

LCNFs:

Lignocellulose nanofibrils

MgO:

Magnesium oxide

NMR:

Nuclear magnetic resonance

NMs:

Nanomaterials

NPs:

Nanoparticles

OPC:

Oxygen permeability coefficient

OTR:

Oxygen transmission rate

PBAT:

Polybutylene adipate terephthalate

PBS:

Polybutylene succinate

PCL:

Polycaprolactone

PGA:

Polyglycolic acid

PHAs:

Polyhydroxyalkanoates

PHB:

Poly (3-hydroxybutyrate)

PHBV:

Poly (3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate)

PLA:

Polylactic acid

PVA:

Polyvinyl alcohol

SEM:

Scanning electron microscopy

SM:

Sodium metabisulfite

SPNCC:

Sugar palm nanocrystalline cellulose

SPS:

Sugar palm starch

TEGO:

Thermally exfoliated graphene oxide

TEM:

Transmission electron microscopy

Tg:

Glass transition temperature

TGA:

Thermal gravimetric analysis

TiO2:

Titanium dioxide

TPS:

Thermoplastic starch

TS:

Tensile strength

US:

United States

UV-VIS:

Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy

WPC:

Whey protein isolate

WVPC:

Water vapor permeability coefficient

WVTR:

Water vapor transmission rate

XRD:

X-ray diffraction analysis

ZnO:

Zinc oxide

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Najeeb, J., Naeem, S. (2022). Biodegradable Food Packaging Materials. In: Ali, G.A.M., Makhlouf, A.S.H. (eds) Handbook of Biodegradable Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83783-9_56-1

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