Polymeric Materials for Food Packaging: Fundamentals and Applications
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 10
Special Issue Editor
Interests: thermal analysis; chemical thermodynamics; polymers; gels; porous materials; fibers; composites; supercritical fluids; pharmaceutics; wastewater treatment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ι serve as Guest Editor for a Special Issue entitled “Polymeric Materials for Food Packaging: Fundamentals and Applications” in the journal Polymers of the publisher MDPI.
Food packaging is a major factor influencing the quality and safety of foods. Currently, polymer-based materials are widely used as food packaging materials and in many cases outperform other candidate materials such as metals and glass. However, the development of a reliable food packaging material is a challenging task due to its interdisciplinary nature.
The aim of this Special Issue is to provide a forum for discussing issues regarding the fundamentals and applications of the field of food packaging, with a focus on polymer-based materials.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
- Development and characterization of polymeric materials for food packaging;
- Thermal, mechanical, antimicrobial, transport (e.g. diffusion coefficient, permeability), and surface properties of polymeric materials;
- Polymer composites;
- Food preservation studies;
- Food–polymer interactions;
- Migration from packaging to food;
- Deterioration of organoleptic characteristics due to packaging;
- Recycling and utilization of food packaging made of polymeric materials.
I cordially invite you to submit a manuscript (original research article, communication, or review) to this Special Issue.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Costas Tsioptsias
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- polymeric materials
- food packaging
- polymer composites
- antimicrobial properties
- transport properties (diffusion/permeability)
- food-polymer interactions
- migration (packaging to food)
- recycling (polymer packaging)
- organoleptic characteristics
- food preservation
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