Food Packaging

Alexandru Mihai Grumezescu is a lecturer in the Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, at the Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. He is an experienced researcher and published editor in the field of nano and biostructures. He is the editor-in-chief of two international open access journals: Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry, Letters and Applied NanoBioScience. Dr. Grumezescu has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, authored nine books, and has served as an editor for more than 50 scholarly books.

"Nevertheless, the book has succeeded in presenting readers with the frontiers of food packaging materials science. The state-of-the-art in developing high barrier and multifunctional food packaging materials using nanotechnology and biodegradable or renewable polymers is well documented, as well as fundamental knowledge, scientific background and insights into the future development of packaging materials" --Johnson Matthey Technology Review"…a valuable resource for anyone in the food industry who needs the most current information and scientifi c advances in the fi eld of nanotechnology as applied to food packaging." --Acta Alimentaria

• 1. Nanotechnological Strategies Yielding High-Barrier Plastic Food Packaging2. High barrier composite materials based on renewable sources for food packaging applications3. Bionanocomposites: Smart biodegradable packaging material for food preservation4. Encapsulation of sensors for intelligent packaging5. Fabrication of high barrier plastics and its application in food packaging6. Biodegradable food packaging nanocomposites based on ZnO-reinforced polyhydroxyalkanoates7. Bioplastics from agro-wastes for food packaging applications8. Study of the structure/property relationship of nano-materials for development of novel food packaging9. Bioactive food packaging with nanodiamond particles manufactured by detonation and plasma-chemical methods10. Biodegradable polymernanocomposites for packaging applications11. Flexible packaging for non-thermal decontamination by high hydrostatic pressure12. An overview of nanoparticles role in the improvement of barrier properties of bioplastics for food packaging applications13. Biopolymer/clay nanocomposites as the high barrier packaging material: recent advances14. Barrier Properties Improvement Using Additives15. Metal nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes - perfect antimicrobial nano-fillers in polymer based food packaging materials16. New approaches and future aspects of antibacterial food packaging: from nanoparticles coating to nanofibers and nanocomposites with foresight to address the regulatory uncertainty17. Nanoencapsulation of flavor and aromas in food packaging18. Polypropylene/talc nanocomposites films as low cost barrier materials for food packaging19.  The influence of nanofillers on physical-chemical properties of polysaccharide-based film 20. High barrier graphene/polymer nanocomposite films