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PROCESSES
Volume 9, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/pr9122244
Keywords
supercritical fluid impregnation; electrospinning; solvent casting; antioxidant packaging; materials optimization
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Active food packaging is an innovative way to use natural-based and biodegradable materials to interact with food products, preserving their quality and shelf-life. Compared to traditional plastics, active packaging is designed and regulated to release controlled amounts of antimicrobial and antioxidant compounds.
Active food packaging represents an innovative way to conceive food packages. The innovation lies in using natural-based and biodegradable materials to produce a system intended to interact with the food product to preserve its quality and shelf-life. Compared to traditional plastics, active packaging is designed and regulated to release substances in a controlled manner, mainly antimicrobial and antioxidant compounds. Conventional technologies are not suitable for treating these natural substances; therefore, the research for innovative and green techniques represents a challenge in this field. The aim of this work is to compare two different polymeric structures: nanofibrous films obtained by electrospinning and continuous films obtained by solvent casting, to identify the best solution and process conditions for subjecting the samples to the supercritical fluids impregnation process (SFI). The supports optimized were functionalized by impregnating alpha-tocopherol using the SFI process. In particular, the different morphologies of the samples both before and after the supercritical impregnation process were initially studied, identifying the limits and possible solutions to obtain an optimization of the constructs to be impregnated with this innovative green technology in the packaging field.
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