Multifunctional Packaging for Food Products
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Packaging and Preservation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 August 2024) | Viewed by 1480
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Diversification and personalized demands of consumer markets have driven the development of multifunctional food packaging materials with active and sustainable characteristics, such as barrier and antibacterial activities, monitoring of freshness and spoilage and oxygen scavenging capacity. There is high demand to develop simple, fast, and accurate materials for maintaining storage quality. The biomass-derived films have attracted interest as potential food packaging. Nevertheless, their poor physicochemical properties (e.g., mechanical and water vapor permeable properties) limit the scope of possible applications. Functional materials (e.g., natural and synthetic nanoclays, metal oxide nanoparticles, natural pigments, essential oil) have been introduced into biomass matrices to fabricate multifunctional biomass-derived films, thus improving their packaging performance. Developing advanced multifunctional packaging materials to prolong the shelf-life of food is of importance for improving social and economic benefits.
Therefore, this Special Issue on “Multifunctional Packaging for Food Products” invites researchers to submit their original research articles, comprehensive reviews, or mini reviews with the aim of improving food quality.
Prof. Dr. Hualin Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- intelligent packaging
- antioxidant
- antibacterial
- freshness indicator
- release control
- shelf life
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