Multifunctional Polymeric Formulations for Sustainable Food Packaging Applications, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Biobased and Biodegradable Polymers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 1423
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food packaging; biobased and/or biodegradable polymers; nanocomposites; active materials; waste valorization; mechanical recycling; compostability
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Interests: active food packaging; packaging films; thymol; propolis; pinobanksin; stingless bees; clostridium acetobutylicum; biobutanol; ethanol fermentation; supercritical carbon dioxide; supercritical fluid extraction
2. National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires C1033AAJ, Argentina
Interests: food packaging; biodegradable polymers; microbial biobased polymers; active materials; natural additives; waste valorization
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Currently, polymeric materials are the most used polymers in the food packaging sector due to their many advantages (e.g., low cost, light weight, ease of processing, etc.). However, due to increasing environmental concern related to the fossil-based origin of most traditional plastics, as well as the high amount of plastic waste produced, the food packaging industry is continuously looking for new multifunctional sustainable polymeric formulations. Nevertheless, sustainable polymeric formulations, such as those based on bio-based and/or biodegradable polymers and recycled and/or recyclable polymers, do not satisfy the high-performance requirements of traditional food packaging materials. For these reasons, important research efforts have been conducted in the field of more sustainable polymeric formulations in the last decade, including the development of composites and nanocomposites, multilayer structures, as well as polymers with active (e.g., antioxidant, antimicrobial, etc.) or intelligent (e.g., pH-responsive, thermally activated shape-memory properties, etc.) functionalities.
This Special Issue is intended to compile the most recent research works in sustainable polymeric formulations intended for food packaging applications, with improved environmental efficiency.
Original research contributions focused on the possibility of the industrial scalability of such sustainable polymeric formulations, their multifunctional performance improvements with interest for their use as food packaging materials (e.g., cost-effective solutions, novel processing technologies, active/intelligent functionalities, and improved optical, mechanical, and/or barrier properties), as well on their sustainable end-of-life options (e.g., compostability, improved recyclability, etc.) are welcome.
We hope that research articles and/or review papers included in this Special Issue will help the food packaging sector in the challenge of transferring to novel sustainable formulations in the industrial sector.
Dr. Marina Patricia Arrieta Dillon
Prof. Dr. Alejandra Torres
Dr. Mercedes Ana Peltzer
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- food packaging
- active packaging
- intelligent packaging
- edible polymers
- biopolymers
- biobased polymers
- biodegradable polymers
- recyclable polymers
- recycled polymers
- natural additives
- functional properties
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