Natural Materials for Food Packaging Application

Natural Materials for Food Packaging Application

Analyze the future of biodegradable food packaging with this cutting-edge overview

Packaging plays an essential role in the production of food and its movement through the global supply chain. Food packaging has been a significant site of innovation recently, allowing consumers better access to natural and organic foods, extended shelf lives, and more. However, food packaging has become an increasingly serious environmental hazard, with the result that biodegradable food packaging has become a vital and growing area of research.

Natural Materials for Food Packaging Application provides a thorough and detailed introduction to natural packaging and its applications in food transportation. Treating both recent innovations and prospective future developments, it provides readers with extensive insights into the current state of research in this field. The result is a volume designed to meet the aspirational needs of a sustainable food industry.

Natural Materials for Food Packaging Application readers will also find:

• Detailed treatment of biodegradable packaging materials including thermo-plastic starch, polybutylene succinate, and more
• Discussion of subjects including chitosan-based food packaging films, clay-based packaging films, and more
• An authorial team with vast expertise in the field of biological polymer production

Natural Materials for Food Packaging Applications is a useful reference for chemists, materials scientists, and food scientists, as well as for any industry professionals working in food distribution and the food supply chain.

Jyotishkumar Parameswaranpillai, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Science at Alliance University, Karnataka, India. He has postdoctoral experience in laboratories on multiple continents, and has published enormously widely on biological polymer research subjects.

Aswathy Jayakumar, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Food and Nutrition at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea. She received the 2019 Best Paper Award at the Kerala Science Congress, and her research concerns the functional biology of endophytic microorganisms.

E. K. Radhakrishnan, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Biosciences and Joint Director of the Inter-University Centre for Organic Farming and Sustainable Agriculture, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India. He has published extensively on plant microbe interactions, polymer-based nanocomposites for food packaging, and related subjects.

Suchart Siengchin, PhD, is a Lecturer and Researcher in the Thai-German Graduate School of Engineering, King Mongkut’s University of Technology, North Bangkok, Thailand (KMUTNB). He is a three-time winner of the Outstanding Researcher Award at KMUTNB, and has published and presented extensive research on engineering and materials science subjects.

Sabarish Radoor, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Researcher at King Mongkut's University of Technology, North Bangkok, Thailand (KMUTNB). He has published roughly 25 research papers.

Dr. Jyotishkumar Parameswaranpillai earned a Ph.D. in polymer science and technology (chemistry) at the Mahatma Gandhi University, India. He has research experience at various international laboratories, such as the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden (IPF), Germany; Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium; University of Potsdam, Germany and King Mongkut?s University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand. He has published more than 110 papers, 40 book chapters, and 25 books as editor. Most of his books are best-selling in the field.

Ms. Aswathy Jayakumar completed her Ph.D in Biotechnology at the School of Biosciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India. After her MSc. in Biotechnology, she has completed M.Phil in Biosciences and has authored seventeen publications (including book chapters). She received best paper award in Biotechnology 2019 at the Kerala Science Congress (Kerala State Award). Her area of research is functional biology of endophytic microorganisms and nanotechnology-based food packaging systems.

Dr. Radhakrishnan E.K. is currently working as Assistant Professor at the School of Biosciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India as Director of Business Innovation and Incubation Centre (BIIC) and as Joint Director of Inter University Centre for Organic Farming and Sustainable Agriculture (IUCOFSA), Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India. He completed his doctoral degree at the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India in 2008 and Post-doctoral studies at the Tokyo Biochemical Research Foundation, The University of Tokyo, Japan in 2010. During his 16 years of research, he has more than 121 research publications, book chapters and review papers. So far twelve Ph.Ds have been completed under his guidance. He has completed four major research projects from various funding agencies. His research area includes plant microbe interactions, microbial natural products microbial synthesis of metal nanoparticles, Polymer based nanocomposites for food packaging and medical materials with antimicrobial effects.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Suchart Siengchin received his Dipl.-Ing. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Giessen/Friedberg, Germany in 1999, M.Sc. in Polymer Technology at the University of Applied Sciences Aalen, Germany in 2002, M.Sc. in Material Science at the Erlangen-Nuernberg University, Germany in 2004, Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) at the Institute for Composite Materials, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany in 2008 and Postdoctoral Research at Kaiserslautern University, Germany and School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, USA. In 2016 he received the habilitation at the Chemnitz University, Germany. He worked as a Lecturer for Production and Material Engineering Department at The Sirindhorn International Thai-German Graduate School of Engineering (TGGS), KMUTNB. He has been full Professor at KMUTNB and became the President of KMUTNB. He won the Outstanding Researcher Award in 2010, 2012 and 2013 at KMUTNB. His research interest lies in Polymer Processing and Composite Material. He is Editor-in-Chief: KMUTNB International Journal of Applied Science and Technology and the author of more than 100 peer reviewed journal articles. He has participated with presentations in more than 39 International and National Conferences with respect to Materials Science and Engineering topics.

Dr. Sabarish Radoor is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the King Mongkut?s University of Technology North Bangkok. He has published around 25 research papers.