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Hydrophobic Interface Starch Nanofibrous Film for Food Packaging: From Bioinspired Design to Self-Cleaning Action

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JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY
卷 69, 期 17, 页码 5067-5075

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.1c00230

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Bioinspired interface; starch nanofiber; electrospinning; self-assembly; hydrophobicity

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  1. Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST [2018QNRC001]
  2. Chutian Scholar Program of Hubei Provincial Government, China

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The study demonstrates a method of mass producing a pure starch food packaging film consisting of starch nanofibers without the need for nonstarch components, by using temperature-assisted electrospinning technique. The application of a stearic acid coating inspired by lotus leaves creates a superhydrophobic surface on the film, enhancing its thermal stability and surface energy, and enabling water to roll freely in all directions, crucial for self-cleaning.
Starch-derived edible food films have great potential as biodegradable food packaging materials because they reduce the overuse of traditional petroleum-based plastic. Herein, we demonstrate a direct method of mass producing a pure starch food packaging film that consisted of starch nanofibers by using a temperature-assisted electrospinning technique without addition of any nonstarch components. To overcome the major issue of ultralow hydrophobicity of starch nanofibrous film (SNF), we used a facile and low-cost solution immersion approach to create a fiber coating of stearic acid (STA) inspired by biological organisms with superhydrophobic properties, such as lotus leaves. Hierarchical flower-like micronanostructures were obtained on SNF by controlled assembly of STA onto the surface of starch nanofibers. Benefiting from the effective formation of STA self-assembled lamella, the multiscale microstructure surface features, low surface energy, and enhancing thermal stability of SNF were obtained and confirmed to result in the variety of its hydrophobicity, which can be also tailored by simple controlling of the solution concentration of STA. Importantly, the STA-self-assembled coated SNF enabled water to roll freely in all directions, which is a crucial factor for self-cleaning. Our novel strategy based on self-assembly can guide development of bioinspired hydrophobic interfaces for starch-based films for edible hydrophobic materials.

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