Guoli Chen, Kaimin Wang, Pinghang Chen, Daohang Cai, Yan Shao, Rui Xia, Chun Li, Haochuan Wang, Fuzeng Ren, Xing Cheng, Yanhao Yu
Fully biodegradable packaging materials are demanded to resolve the issue of plastic pollution. However, the fresh food storage performance of biodegradable materials is generally much lower than that of plastics due to their high permeability, microbial friendliness, and limited stretchability and transparency. Here a biodegradable packaging material is reported with high fresh food storage performance based on an oil-infused bacterial cellulose (OBC) porous film. The oil infusion significantly improved cellulose's food-keeping performance by reducing its gas permeability, increasing its stretchability and transparency, and enabling the active release of green vapor-phase preservative molecules, while maintaining its intrinsically high degradability...
April 3, 2024: Advanced Science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)