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POLYMER ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE
Volume 55, Issue 10, Pages 2388-2395Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pen.24127
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- Department of Chemical and Petrochemicals (GOI)
- Central Instruments Facilities, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
- Department of Biotechnology (DBT) [BT/345/NE/TBP/2012]
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This article reports the fabrication of poly (3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB)/cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) based nanobiocomposite films with improved gas barrier and migration properties for food packaging applications. Acid hydrolysis of cellulose pulp from bamboo (Bambusabalcooa) yields CNCs with diameter of 15-20 nm and length of 400-600 nm. Evaluation of d-spacing using XRD indicates intercalation of PHB matrix with CNC at optimum loadings of 2 wt%. Overall migration values in presence of both polar and nonpolar food simulants are found within standard limits. After migration studies on PHB/CNC films, significant decrease in crystallization temperature (by 15 degrees C) is observed, with subsequent presence of multiple melting peaks. The oxygen transmission rate (OTR) decreases significantly (by similar to 65%), even at low CNC (similar to 2 wt%) loadings. Permeation activation energy (calculated from Arrhenius equation) and barrier properties, such as solubility and diffusivity, improved (decreased by similar to 57 and 17%, respectively) with loading fractions (similar to 2 wt%) due to the hydrogen bonded interaction of PHB with CNCs as well as tortuous path provided towards oxygen permeation. (C) 2015 Society of Plastics Engineers
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