Environmentally Friendly Thin Film and Coatings for Packages
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 June 2026
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Just as petroleum-based packaging poses a threat to the environment and living organisms, alternatives to traditional polymers are being sought and developed. It is expected that up to 30% of all packaging could be replaced with environmentally friendly thin films and coatings. Such solutions reduce the amount of waste (the effectiveness of the loop recycling is 8%), micro- and nano-plastics (new plastic packaging are not produced) and greenhouse gases (footprint) during the production, which is lower compared to classical polymers. These films and coatings could be even produced from waste, for example, from green waste (cellulose films) and shells of crustaceans (chitosan). They could be tasteless or colorless, and some additional substances (for example nutritional) can be provided to their matrix. Different food products can be wrapped or coated, effectively allowing to prolongation of the shelf-life of fresh food, sometimes in special conditions, even of 30 days or more, and in cases of foods with lower amounts of water, the effect is the same as traditional plastics. They protect against food spoiling caused by microorganisms and physical factors (additional barriers of the food-product). In the future, the market for thin films and coatings of bio-based polymers could expand to other industrial branches, such as medicine, pharmacy, chemistry, etc.
This Special Issue “Environmentally Friendly Thin Film and Coatings for Packages“, is specifically dedicated to researchers/scientists from areas including food packaging, food chemistry, microbiology, materials, and all derivative subjects.
The Special Issue will mainly publish original research papers, review articles, and short communications in the following areas:
Bio-based films and coatings for packaging;
Biological food packaging material development;
Biological coatings or films material formulations;
Biological films and coatings with nano-particles;
Multilayer/multicomposite bio-thin films and coatings;
Edible coatings or films;
Physical and microbiological properties of food bio-packaging coatings or films;
Antimicrobial packaging systems;
Shelf life of packaged foodstuff;
Microbial stability of food during storage, handling and transportation;
Span-life and food safety;
Sustainable and green strategies for packaging;
Condition of degradation/decompose of biomaterials and biopolymers;
Recycling of food packaging biomaterials;
Dr. Ewelina Basiak
Guest Editor
Dr. Ewelina Basiak
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Bio-packaging
- (Bio-)films
- (Bio-)coatings
- Shelf-life
- Physical properties
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