Edible Polymers: Challenges and Opportunities
By S. C. Shit, Pathik Shah. 2014
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Edible polymers have established substantial deliberation in modern eons because of their benefits comprising use as edible materials over synthetic polymers. This could contribute to the reduction of environmental contamination. Edible polymers can practically diminish the complexity and thus improve the recyclability of materials, compared to the more traditional non-environmentally friendly materials and may be able to substitute such synthetic polymers. A synthetic hydrogel polymer unlocked a new possibility for development of films, coatings, extrudable pellets, and synthetic nanopolymers, particularly designed for medical, agricultural, and industrial fields. Edible polymers offer many advantages for delivering drugs and tissue engineering. Edible polymer technology helps food industries to make their products more attractive and safe to use. Novel edible materials have been derived from many natural sources that have conventionally been regarded as discarded materials. The objective of this review is to provide a comprehensive introduction to edible polymers by providing descriptions in terms of their origin, properties, and potential uses.
Subfields: Biomaterials, Molecular Medicine, Polymers and Plastics
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Citations in the corpus
- Tissue Engineering for Clean Meat Production (2019, background): “Hydrogels commonly used for skeletal muscle tissue engineering are comprised of biopolymers such as fibrin, collagen, or polysaccharides such as HA, alginate, agarose and chitosan (Drury and Mooney, 2003; Shit and Shah, 2014; Qazi et al., 2015; Wolf et al., 2015).”
- Nanoedible films for food packaging: a review (2019, background): “As a result, edible packaging materials have attracted researchers’ attention as the promising alternative that has bright potential to replace synthetic as well as biodegradables plastics [8].”