Electrospun Functional Materials toward Food Packaging Applications: A Review

• Published in: Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 10; no. 1; p. 150
• Main Authors: Zhao, Luying, Duan, Gaigai, Zhang, Guoying, Yang, Haoqi, He, Shuijian, Jiang, Shaohua
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 15.01.2020; MDPI
• Subjects: Antibacterial materials; Biocompatibility; Electric fields; Electrospinning; Fabrication; Food; Food packaging; Food quality; Functional materials; functional membrane; Hydrophobicity; Mechanical properties; Molecular weight; Morphology; Nanofibers; Packaging materials; Polymers; Polyvinyl alcohol; Porosity; Proteins; Review; Reviews; Shelf life; Solvents; Toxicity; Viscosity; food packaging; electrospinning; nanofibers; functional membrane

Electrospinning is an effective and versatile method to prepare continuous polymer nanofibers and nonwovens that exhibit excellent properties such as high molecular orientation, high porosity and large specific surface area. Benefitting from these outstanding and intriguing features, electrospun nan...