scholarly journals Sustainable, self-cleaning, transparent, and moisture/oxygen-barrier coating film for food packaging

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vu Thi Tuyet Thuy ◽  
Lam Tan Hao ◽  
Hyeonyeol Jeon ◽  
Jun Mo Koo ◽  
Jaeduk Park ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Barrier Function ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Oxygen Barrier ◽  
Coating Film ◽  
Gas Barrier ◽  
Plastic Packaging ◽  
Chemical Damage ◽  
Barrier Coating ◽  
Self Cleaning

Plastic packaging effectively protects food from mechanical, microbial, and chemical damage; however, oxygen and moisture permeate these plastics and spoil the food. Thus, the gas barrier function is usually imparted...

scholarly journals High gas barrier coating using non-toxic nanosheet dispersions for flexible food packaging film

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingfang Yu ◽  
Kanittika Ruengkajorn ◽  
Dana-Georgiana Crivoi ◽  
Chunping Chen ◽  
Jean-Charles Buffet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Packaging ◽  
Packaging Film ◽  
Gas Barrier ◽  
Barrier Coating

Contrasting underlying mechanisms of different barrier coating types

TAPPI Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. 31-37
Author(s):  
Bryan McCulloch ◽  
John Roper ◽  
Kaitlin Rosen
Keyword(s):  
Food Packaging ◽  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Mechanical Degradation ◽  
Design Rules ◽  
Barrier Coatings ◽  
Barrier Materials ◽  
Barrier Coating ◽  
Coating Type ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms

Barrier coatings are used in applications including food packaging, dry goods, and consumer products to prevent transport of different compounds either through or into paper and paperboard substrates. These coatings are useful in packaging to contain active ingredients, such as fragrances, or to protect contents from detrimental substances, such as oxygen, water, grease, or other chemicals of concern. They also are used to prevent visual changes or mechanical degradation that might occur if the paper becomes saturated. The performance and underlying mechanism depends on the barrier coating type and, in particular, on whether the barrier coating is designed to prevent diffusive or capillary transport. Estimates on the basis of fundamental transport phenomena and data from a broad screening of different barrier materials can be used to understand the limits of various approaches to construct barrier coatings. These estimates also can be used to create basic design rules for general classes of barrier coatings.

scholarly journals Diamine vapor treatment of viscoelastic graphene oxide liquid crystal for gas barrier coating

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seung Eun Choi ◽  
Sung-Soo Kim ◽  
Eunji Choi ◽  
Ji Hoon Kim ◽  
Yunkyu Choi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Graphene Oxide ◽  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Diffusion Length ◽  
Barrier Properties ◽  
Gas Barrier ◽  
Barrier Coating ◽  
Coating Method ◽  
Gas Molecules ◽  
Pet Film ◽  
Vapor Treatment

AbstractA layered graphene oxide/ethylenediamine (GO/EDA) composite film was developed by exposing aqueous GO liquid crystal (GOLC) coating to EDA vapor and its effects on the gas barrier performance of GO film were systematically investigated. When a GO/EDA coating with a thickness of approximately 1 μm was applied to a neat polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film, the resultant film was highly impermeable to gas molecules, particularly reducing the gas permeance up to 99.6% for He and 98.5% for H2 in comparison to the neat PET film. The gas barrier properties can be attributed to the long diffusion length through stacked GO nanosheets. The EDA can crosslink oxygen-containing groups of GO, enhancing the mechanical properties of the GO/EDA coating with hardness and elastic modulus values up to 1.14 and 28.7 GPa, respectively. By the synergistic effect of the viscoelastic properties of GOLC and the volatility of EDA, this coating method can be applied to complex geometries and EDA intercalation can be spontaneously achieved through the scaffold of the GOLC.

High Oxygen Barrier Polyethylene Films

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (8) ◽  
pp. 571-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Fernández Ayuso ◽  
Alejandro Arribas Agüero ◽  
Jose A. Plaza Hernández ◽  
Antonio Bódalo Santoyo ◽  
Elisa Gómez Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Food Packaging ◽  
High Oxygen ◽  
Oxygen Barrier ◽  
Layer By Layer ◽  
Insulating Layer ◽  
Polyethylene Films ◽  
Barrier Films ◽  
Film Substrate ◽  
Corona Treatment ◽  
Thermal Stability Of

“Layer by layer” technology was used to create transparent, thin and high barrier polyethylene films to use in food packaging. These films were made by inserting successive layers of polyacrylamide and montmorillonite (Cloisite Na+, non-organic modification) grown onto a low density polyethylene (LDPE) film substrate submitted to corona treatment. Excellent oxygen permeability results were reached with only 9 bilayers, with a reduction of 99.92%, compared to the pure polyethylene. This allowed the oxygen barrier film to change from poor to high (3.66 cm3/m2·day), with a total thickness of 48 microns, due to the structure formed over the film to create a tortuous path for oxygen molecules. Optical properties were analysed, showing a ≥92% transparency in all samples. Thermal stability of polyethylene was slightly improved and this was attributed to nanoclays presence forming an insulating layer. The result of this research is a thin structured film which is a good candidate for common barrier films replacement in food packaging thanks to its high oxygen barrier capacity, optical transparency, microwaveability and recyclability.

Detection Experiments of High-Barrier and High-Temperature Sterilization and Easy Tear Flexible Plastic Packaging Materials Applied in Food Packaging

2011 ◽  
Vol 117-119 ◽  
pp. 1137-1141
Author(s):  
Ling Yu Wang ◽  
Jun Yan Huang ◽  
Li Hua Cui
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
High Resistance ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Packaging Material ◽  
Processing Technology ◽  
Material Structure ◽  
Packaging Materials ◽  
Plastic Packaging ◽  
Detection Analysis

In order to study the characteristics of a new kind of high-barrier and high-temperature sterilization and easy tear flexible plastic packaging materials applied in food packaging, the PET/AL/CPP was chosen as flexible plastic packaging material structure, different PET, CPP, alcohol inks, adhesives and other raw materials were selected for making a series of processing technology experiment and detection analysis. Then comparing the data obtained with the requirements, it was concluded that new flexible plastic packaging materials were extremely high resistance oxygen and resistance wet, high-temperature sterilization and good one-way easy tear, and etc.

Contamination of Flexible Pouches Challenged by Immersion Biotesting†

1996 ◽  
Vol 59 (7) ◽  
pp. 764-767 ◽  
Author(s):  
BARBARA A. BLAKISTONE ◽  
SCOTT W. KELLER ◽  
JOSEPH E. MARCY ◽  
GEORGE H. LACY ◽  
CAMERON R. HACKNEY ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Packaging ◽  
Channel Length ◽  
Test Methods ◽  
Contamination Rate ◽  
Pseudomonas Fragi ◽  
Plastic Packaging ◽  
Critical Defect ◽  
Test Organisms ◽  
Immersion Testing ◽  
Packaging Industry

Immersion biotesting has long been used to challenge packages, particularly cans, for pinholes and channel leaks. Such testing for all types of plastic packaging may not be appropriate because some packages (e.g., aseptic, hot fill) are not exposed to water. As the food-packaging industry develops alternative environmental biotests there is a need to benchmark them against traditional immersion testing. The purpose of this research was to examine the threshold of critical-defect dimensions using artifically created channel leaks of 10 and 20 μm and 5- and 10-mm lengths sealed into plastic pouches which were subsequently tested by immersion at 102 and 106 CFU of motile and nonmotile Pseudomonas fragi TM849 per ml. Forty-four percent (44%) of the pouches tested became contaminated, indicating the threshold defect value is below 10 μm. Microbial ingress was significant (P < .05) for motile test organisms with a concentration of 106 CFU/ml. The interaction of concentration and time was also significant at 102 CFU/ml at 30 min exposure and 106 CFU/ml at 15 min. Channel length was not statistically significant. The markedly greater contamination rate using immersion testing versus that of aerosol testing highlights the importance of using test methods that reflect environmental exposure conditions of the packages.

scholarly journals Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Bacterial Cellulose for the Production of Nanocrystals for the Food Packaging Industry

Nanomaterials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 735
Author(s):  
Cesare Rovera ◽  
Filippo Fiori ◽  
Silvia Trabattoni ◽  
Diego Romano ◽  
Stefano Farris
Keyword(s):  
Enzymatic Hydrolysis ◽  
Bacterial Cellulose ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Hydrolytic Activity ◽  
High Oxygen ◽  
Oxygen Barrier ◽  
Final State ◽  
Barrier Coatings ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Packaging Industry

Bacterial cellulose nanocrystals (BCNCs) obtained by enzymatic hydrolysis have been loaded in pullulan biopolymer for use as nanoparticles in the generation of high-oxygen barrier coatings intended for food packaging applications. Bacterial cellulose (BC) produced by Komagataeibacter sucrofermentans was hydrolyzed by two different enzymatic treatments, i.e., using endo-1,4-β-glucanases (EGs) from Thermobifida halotolerans and cellulase from Trichoderma reesei. The hydrolytic activity was compared by means of turbidity experiments over a period of 145 h, whereas BCNCs in their final state were compared, in terms of size and morphology, by atomic force microscopy (AFM) and dynamic light scattering (DLS). Though both treatments led to particles of similar size, a greater amount of nano-sized particles (≈250 nm) were observed in the system that also included cellulase enzymes. Unexpectedly, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) revealed that cellulose nanoparticles were round-shaped and made of 4–5 short (150–180 nm) piled whiskers. Pullulan/BCNCs nanocomposite coatings allowed an increase in the overall oxygen barrier performance, of more than two and one orders of magnitude (≈0.7 mL·m−2·24 h−1), of pure polyethylene terephthalate (PET) (≈120 mL·m−2·24 h−1) as well as pullulan/coated PET (≈6 mL·m−2·24 h−1), with no significant difference between treatments (hydrolysis mediated by EGs or with the addition of cellulase). BCNCs obtained by enzymatic hydrolysis have the potential to generate high oxygen barrier coatings for the food packaging industry.

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