Advanced Materials, Technologies, and Innovations in Food Packaging towards Sustainability
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 11758
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food packaging; polymer; nanotechnology; recycling; biodegradable; active packaging
Interests: polymeric materials; active packaging; plastics recycling; nanocomposites; product packaging
Interests: active packaging; supercritical fluids; release kinetics; mass transfer; electrospinning; supercritical impregnation; thermal properties
Interests: active polymers for food packaging applications; antimicrobial polymers; renewable materials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Packaging is a key technology for the conservation of food products, since it covers their handling, distribution, storage and consumption. Each food requires a proper packaging with specific physical properties depending on its characteristics and deterioration processes. Over the last two decades, the most used packaging material has been plastic thanks to its numerous benefits. However, the inadequate management of plastic residues is causing serious environmental pollution and the loss of valuable resources. Thus, the main challenge in the area of food packaging is changing the nature of packaging production towards a sustainable system focused in a circular economy. Strategies and regulations at the European and global levels are focused on the search for sustainable materials, technologies and processes in order to reduce food losses, the revaluation of waste and the circularity of products. Meeting sustainability and designing innovative food packaging systems that extend food shelf life are two of the main challenges currently facing the value chain of the food packaging sector, and innovative research around them are open for submission to this Special Issue.
Thus, the subject coverage of the current Special Issue will be very broad, and will be related to innovative materials, technologies and/or processes in food packaging towards a circular economy, the ability to reduce food loss, the revaluation of waste and the sustainability of packaging materials.
This Special Issue will cover new developments in the synthesis, characterization, and applications of polymers and other sustainable materials, such as paperboard, advances in recycling processes and recycled materials, research on biodegradable polymers and biodegradation processes, the search for new sources of biopolymers and packaging systems that reduce food losses, such as active and intelligent packaging, etc.}.
Therefore, we invite researchers/Ph.D. students and scientists from the international research community to submit their unpublished original research articles, short communications, letters, and reviews that cover these topics; we are open to proposing new topics related to sustainability and circular economy.
Dr. Lopéz de Dicastillo Carol
Dr. Velásquez Eliezer
Dr. Adrián Rojas
Prof. Dr. Pilar Hernandez-Munoz
Prof. Dr. Rafael José Gavara
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- active packaging
- intelligent packaging
- edible polymers
- biopolymers
- bio-based polymers
- biodegradable polymers
- recyclable polymers
- recycled polymers
- natural additives
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