Cirillo Giuseppe - Composites materials for food packaging

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6
7. Chapter 9
8. Chapter 10
9. Chapter 11
10. Chapter 12

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 4
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 7
7. Chapter 9
8. Chapter 10
9. Chapter 11
10. Chapter 12
11. Chapter 13

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Insights into Modern Food Science
The book series examines how modern society effects food science and it is intended to be an encyclopedic knowledge base correlating the challenges of the XXI century to food science. The series will have five main themes: Food Production; Food Safety; Food and Health; Food Packaging; Food and the Law.

Series Editor: Giuseppe Cirillo
Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy
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Giuseppe Cirillo, Marek A. Kozlowski and Umile Gianfranco Spizzirri

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
ISBN 978-1-119-16020-5

In recent years, consumers consciousness of the strong relationship between food quality and health has extensively impacted the packaging field. Nowadays, indeed, a packaging material is asked to match the handling and storage conditions with the quality and safety of foodstuffs. As a consequence, scientific literature and industrial R&D activities are plenty with attempts to develop new and effective materials that are able to preserve food from degradation in both normal and stressed environmental conditions, resulting in a consistent enhancement of their shelf-life. The packaging science is thus becoming an interdisciplinary research field, involving the expertise of chemists, physicists, engineers and biologists, with the ultimate aim to match the consumers expectation and governments regulations.

The book is intended as an overview on the recent and more relevant insights in the application of composite materials on food packaging, emphasizing the scientific outcome arising from the physico-chemical properties of such engineered materials with the need of food quality and safety.

Composites, matching the properties of different components, allow the development of innovative and performing strategies for an intelligent food packaging, overcoming the limitations of using only a single material.

The book starts with the description of montmorillonite and halloysite composites, subsequently moving to metal-based materials with special emphasis on silver, zinc, silicium and iron. After the discussion about how the biological influences of such materials can affect the performance of packaging, the investigation of superior properties of sp2 carbon nanostructures is reported. Here, carbon nanotubes and graphene are described as starting points for the preparation of highly engineered composites able to promote the enhancement of shelf-life by virtue of their mechanical and electrical features.

Finally, in the effort to find innovative composites, the applicability of biodegradable materials form both natural (e.g. cellulose) and synthetic (e.g. polylactic acid PLA) origins, with the aim to prove that polymer-based materials can overcome some key limitations such as environmental impact and waste disposal.

Aris E. Giannakas and Areti A. Leontiou

Laboratory of Food Technology, Department of Business Administration of Food and Agricultural Enterprises, University of Patras, Agrinio, Greece

This chapter includes the recent trends in using montmorillonite (MMT)-based composite materials for food packaging applications. MMT is a naturally available phyllosilicate material that belongs to the group of smectites. Over the last few decades, it has found applications in many areas of nanotechnology such as catalysis, adsorption, and filtration. In recent years, it has also generated a wide range of applications in the food packaging industry. MMT has been used as an ideal nanofiller for polymer and biopolymer plastics, which leads to polymer and biopolymer nanocomposite films for food packaging with enhanced thermal and barrier properties. Incorporation of ions such as Ag+, Cu2+, and Zn2+ in clay platelets leads to nanocomposites with enhanced antimicrobial activity. Additionally, many strategies have been developed for immobilization of oxides, enzymes, essential oils, and other bioactive compounds in these platelets. This feature makes the MMT-based composite materials promising nanocarriers for smart and active packaging applications.

Keywords: Montmorillonite, oxides, essential oils, enzymes, antioxidant, antimicrobial, food packaging