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Development of wheat gluten/nanocellulose/titanium dioxide nanocomposites for active food packaging
Abstract
Bionanocomposites were developed by casting/evaporation of wheat gluten (WG), cellulose nanocrystals (CNC), and TiO2 nanoparticles. The effect of addition of different percentages of CNC, and TiO2 on tensile strength (TS), Young's modulus and water sensitivity was studied. A significant improvement in the studied properties is observed when 7.5% CNC and 0.6% TiO2 is added to WG. WG/CNC 7.5%/0.6% TiO2 blend suspension was chosen to coat commercial packaging unbleached kraft paper sheets via 1, 2 and 3 coating layers. A significant enhancement of 56% and 53% in breaking length and burst index, respectively, was achieved for 3 layers coated paper. The antimicrobial activity of the coated papers, against Saccharomyces cervisiae, Gram-negative bacteria Escherichia coli and Gram-positive bacteria Staphylococcus aureus, was investigated and expressed in terms of reduction % of surviving number (CFU) of the tested organisms. More than 98.5% reduction in CFU was observed against the organisms compared to TiO2-free coated paper.
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“It is noted that new packaging biomaterials are continuously emerging (Youssef and El-Sayed, 2018), such as use of wheat gluten for food packaging (El-Wakil et al., 2015;Shankar et al., 2019), edible chitosan and cellulose-based packaging material (Pinem et al., 2020), corn and rice starch-based biopolymer as an alternative to HDPE plastic bags (Marichelvam et al., 2019).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- El-Wakil, N. A., Hassan, E. A., Abou-Zeid, R. E., & Dufresne, A.
- Affiliations
- National Research Centre (EG)
- Institut polytechnique de Grenoble (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Hassan, Enas A.
- Venue
- Carbohydrate Polymers
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-06
- Volume
- 124
- Pages
- 337-346
- ISSN
- 0144-8617 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2014703970
- Cited by
- 304
- References
- 61
- Citations by year
- 2026: 16 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 26 · 2023: 32 · 2022: 40 · 2021: 33 · 2020: 38 · 2019: 29 · 2018: 23 · 2017: 17 · 2016: 21 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 7.58
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Carbohydrate Polymers (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Academy of Scientific Research in Egypt
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Biomaterials › Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Biomaterials › Advanced Cellulose Research Studies
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agronomy and Crop Science › Polymer-Based Agricultural Enhancements
- Keywords
- wheat gluten, cellulose nanocrystals, titanium dioxide nanoparticles, bionanocomposites, active packaging, antimicrobial packaging, coated paper, tensile strength, water sensitivity, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus
- MeSH terms
- Anti-Infective Agents, Cellulose, Escherichia coli, Glutens, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Staphylococcus aureus, Tensile Strength, Titanium, Water, Triticum, Food Packaging, Nanocomposites, Elastic Modulus
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