Bioplastics from agro-wastes for food packaging applications
| Autor: | I. Moura, Ana Vera Machado, Arsénio Vasconcelos Sá, Ana S. Abreu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Green chemistry
Materials science Waste management Starch Natural polymers food and beverages 02 engineering and technology Biodegradation 010402 general chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences Bioplastic 12. Responsible consumption 0104 chemical sciences Food packaging chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry Cellulose 0210 nano-technology |
| DOI: | 10.1016/b978-0-12-804302-8.00007-8 |
| Popis: | Bioplastics exhibit unique properties and can be produced from plants and crop wastes, among others, cellulose, proteins, and starch are some of the examples. Due to environmental concerns, it is of high priority to replace conventional plastics with bioplastics, and even better if they are directly synthesized from agro-wastes. Green chemistry methodology is applied to extract natural polymers, such as cellulose, from vegetable wastes. This chapter focuses on the preparation of new functional biopolymers for packaging based on extracted cellulose, which exhibits broadly tunable thermomechanical properties and biodegradation. Therefore, this contribution shows the potential of agro-wastes to produce new cellulose-based bioplastics for food packaging applications. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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