Active Packaging Coatings

By Luis J. Bastarrachea, Dana E. Wong, Maxine J. Roman, Zhuangsheng Lin, J. Goddard. 2015

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Active food packaging involves the packaging of foods with materials that provide an enhanced functionality, such as antimicrobial, antioxidant or biocatalytic functions. This can be achieved through the incorporation of active compounds into the matrix of the commonly used packaging materials, or by the application of coatings with the corresponding functionality through surface modification. The latter option offers the advantage of preserving the packaging materials’ bulk properties nearly intact. Herein, different coating technologies like embedding for controlled release, immobilization, layer-by-layer deposition, and photografting are explained and their potential application for active food packaging is explored and discussed.

Subfields: Biomaterials, Surfaces, Coatings and Films

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/fef6f6e1877c45e63c1eb7eb40d6f99430fe7328

Citations in the corpus

• Advances in barrier coatings and film technologies for achieving sustainable packaging of food products – A review (2021, unknown): “3) (Bastarrachea et al., 2015).”