Polymer Composites for Packaging: Synthesis and Application
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 February 2024) | Viewed by 357
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biopolymers; food packaging; nanopackaging; smart packaging; trace elements
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The main segment of packaging materials falls on plastic and its composites. This is due to their sufficiently higher mechanical strength, lightness, indifference to a large number of products, manufacturability, cheapness, the availability of raw materials and the ability to create various composites. However, such packaging is fraught with the fact that its degradation in natural conditions takes a long time, up to tens and hundreds of years. Biodegradable packaging materials are being developed to solve this problem, but they are usually not competitive with conventional packaging materials in terms of a higher cost and worse physico-chemical properties. Therefore, at this stage of development, it is very important to develop sustainable packaging materials that will help solve the problem of mass environmental pollution caused by the use of plastic and which will also have a positive impact on the global economic situation. In this Special Issue, it is proposed to consider the modern achievements of advanced technologies in the field of synthesis of polymer composites and materials using actual physical, chemical and biological methods. Such materials and composites can find their application in the creation of innovative packaging materials with enhanced physical, chemical, structural, mechanical and biological properties.
Dr. Andrey Nagdalian
Dr. Andrey Blinov
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- polymer composites
- sustainable packaging
- smart packaging
- nanopackaging
- biodegradable materials
- biopolymers
- nanomaterials
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