Valorización de biomasa acuática para el desarrollo de estructuras biopoliméricas de uso alimentario (1): materiales para envases biodegradables
- Isaac Benito-González
- Marta Martínez-Sanz
- Cynthia Fontes-Candia
- Vera Cebrian-Lloret 1
- Antonio Martínez-Abad
- Amparo López-Rubio
- 1 CSIC. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
ISSN: 0034-8708
Year of publication: 2020
Issue Title: Polímeros naturales y de fuentes renovables
Volume: 119
Issue: 757
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista de plásticos modernos: Ciencia y tecnología de polímeros
Abstract
Aquatic biomass represents a highly unexplored resource with a tremendous potential for the development of biopolymeric structures with application in the food packaging area. In general, cellulose is the most widely used biopolymer as additive in food packaging structures, but hemicelluloses present in vegetable biomass in general and, more particularly, in aquatic biomass, can provide very interesting properties to the materials. Therefore, in this manuscript we describe simplified methodologies to obtain different fractions from seaweed and aquatic plants and their use for developing different types of food packaging structures and/or additives which are biodegradable and sustainable