Advanced Coatings and Films for Food Packing and Storage, 3rd Edition
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Coatings for Food Technology and System".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2026 | Viewed by 573
Special Issue Editors
Interests: aquatic products; cold-chain logistics; active packaging; freshness; transportation of live aquatic products; stress mitigation technique
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Interests: films; coatings; food storage; food preservation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the increasing demand for food quality and food safety, the development of efficient packaging strategies for prolonging the shelf life of food is an urgent priority. Edible coatings are fine layers made up of an edible material that protects the food from physicochemical and microbiological decomposition, with various advantages such as edibility, biocompatibility, non-toxicity, and being a non-pollutant. Additionally, these coatings combine active ingredients such as deoxidizers, antioxidants, and antimicrobials in the coating materials, and can release or absorb the active ingredients into the packaged foods or their surrounding environment. The selection of suitable coatings should consider the polymer type of coatings-based materials, the added active ingredients, and the physical and chemical properties of food. Polymer-based coatings can come from synthetic or natural sources, and the use of natural biopolymers mainly composed of proteins, polysaccharides, lipids, or their combinations (such as chitosan, starch, protein isolates, etc.) as coating materials has become a research hotspot. At the same time, researchers have made considerable efforts to search for natural active ingredients to extend the shelf life of food during storage, such as gas scavengers, antimicrobials, and antioxidants. Therefore, advanced coatings solutions are constantly expanding.
Previously, we published two editions of this (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/coatings/special_issues/coatings_films_food and https://www.mdpi.com/journal/coatings/special_issues/T1ER90D6F4) Special Issue online. These two Special Issues, now closed, were very successful. Considering the importance of this topic, we are planning to open a third edition of this Special Issue.
We invite researchers to with their original research results or review articles on the following topics:
- Discovery of new natural biopolymers (proteins, polysaccharides, lipids, etc.) as the base materials for advanced coatings.
- Natural biopolymer-based films with improved functionalities, such as oxygen or ethylene scavenging, carbon dioxide embittering, antimicrobial and antioxidant properties, etc.
- Discovery of new manufacturing methods for improving the functional properties of natural biopolymer-based films
- Advanced coatings for extending shelf life and maintaining food quality during storage.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Jun Mei
Prof. Dr. Jing Xie
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- edible coatings
- active ingredients
- bio-based materials
- active packaging
- intelligent/smart packaging
- shelf life
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