High barrier semi-crystalline polyesters involving nature occurring pyridine structure towards sustainable food packaging

Global Approaches to Sustainable Food Packaging

Global Approaches to Sustainable Food Packaging Food and packaging waste are increasingly being assessed against common sustainability metrics and the value of a circular economy is being realized. Common sustainability metrics address the environmental cost of packaging to reduce food and nutrient waste. The advancing promise of a more circular economy is the result of new packaging legislatio...

Towards Sustainable Food Consumption?

Unsustainable patterns of production and consumption are one of the major environmental concerns in the industrialised world today. Regarding production, organic agriculture is a more sustainable way of producing food than conventional farming. To facilitate for an expansion of the organic food production, there must be a corresponding increase in demand for organic products. The retailers, pos...

Virtuous Circle Food Security , Packaging and Sustainable Development

Phase Transformations in Chiral Non-racemic Main-chain Liquid Crystalline Polyesters Involving Double-twist Helical Crystals

It is for the first time the double-twisted helical single lamellar crystals were observed in a series of synthetic chiral non-racemic main-chain liquid crystalline polyesters. Phase structure and transition behaviors were investigated. Multiple liquid crystalline phases were found including the twisted grain boundary phase. During crystallization, the chain molecules kept their memory of the p...

poly(hydroxyalkanoates) for food packaging: application and attempts towards implementation

plastics are well-established for convenient and safe packaging and distribution of food and feed goods. at present, this special sector of the plastic market displays remarkably increasing quantities of its annual production. caused by the ongoing limitation and strongly fluctuating prices of fossil feedstocks, classically used for plastic production, there is an evident trend to switch toward...