Functionalized nanomaterials driven antimicrobial food packaging: A technological advancement in food science

Sustainable Applications of Nanofibers in Agriculture and Water Treatment: A Review

“…These such plastic materials are nonbiodegradable, causing many environmental problems reducing food safety due to the migration of some compounds such as monomers, plasticizers, and solvent residues from plastics into the food [48]. Functionalized nanomaterials driven antimicrobial food packaging are considered promising solutions as alternative substances for food packing [117]. The sustainable and green sources for producing edible films for food packaging have been widely used, such as many fruit and vegetable purees as wastes resulting from food processing [48].…”

“…Accordingly, packaging films can control pathogens and improve the quality and shelf life of food by acting as carriers of antimicrobial, antioxidant, and active compounds [48]. The use of nanofibers in food packaging may include different topics as presented in Table 5, which focused on using nanofibers for active-intelligent food packaging [113,120,122], as an active food packaging system [97], nanofibers containing biodegradable polymers [121], nanofibers for food freshness indicators [113], cellulose-based hydrophobic materials for food packaging [123], nanofibers for electrochemical DNA biosensors [124], and functionalized nanomaterials driven antimicrobial food packaging [117].…”

Chemistry and Nanotechnology‐Oriented Strategies toward Nanocellulose for Human Water Treatment

“…With nanometer era's advent, nanotechnology oriented water treatment approaches become popular and endow nanocellulose with great potential in the removal of diverse toxic substrates ranging from surface water, groundwater and the industrial wastewater polluted by organic dyes, organic solvent, heavy metal ions and bio-organisms. [69][70][71][72][73][74] The treatment of these polluted water resources is always complicated. Multiple sequential treatment processes are required to achieve desired treatment level, in which the complicated processes just like a "treatment train".…”

“…Nanotechnology can offer nanocellulose with particular quantum, adsorptive, electrical, optical, electrochemical, catalytic and/or antimicrobial performances depending on tuning the cellulose size, microstructure, morphology and surface chemical modification, leading to high cost-efficiency for wastewater treatment. [69][70][71][72][73][74] Nanotechnology oriented water treatment strategies involve various processes, including engineered antimicrobial nanomaterials, nanomembrane, photocatalysis, distillation, etc. A variety of nanotechnology oriented water treatment approaches (NOWTA) are listed in Table 1.…”

Green Synthesis of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles with Eucalyptus globulus Extract and Their Application in the Removal of Heavy Metals from Agricultural Soil

“…In recent years, advancement in nanotechnology research has grown exponentially. These increasingly important nanomaterials are made up of nanoparticles (NPs) smaller than 100 nanometers, giving rise to a wide field of applications in biomedicine [1][2][3][4][5], the food industry [6,7], environmental bioremediation [8][9][10][11], energy storage [12], aquaculture [13], and more. These increasing applications have generated a change of direction in research for the development of profitable and environmentally friendly technologies [14].…”