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TRENDS IN FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 20, Issue 8, Pages 316-332Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tifs.2009.04.003
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Development of packaging materials from renewable resources has for a long time been desirable for sustainability reasons, but with recent explosion in prices of petroleum products, this now becomes also more economically viable. This paper shows how fundamental chemistry underlying three forms of hydrogels-physical hydrogels, chemical hydrogels, and interpenetrating polymer networks (IPN)-can be integrated to produce a new family of food packaging materials from biopolymers, illustrated here using gelatin and low-methoxyl pectin as examples. Application of this technique to create hydrogels from bio-based materials offers the potential for developing novel, biodegradable packaging applications, particularly for foods, that meet the ever-increasing demands for natural and environmentally compatible materials.
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