“…Indeed, nanoemulsions of plant essential oils are able to separate polymer chains apart, weakening the net intermolecular interaction, and leading to less stiffness and resistance, although to more extensible films. In addition to the aforementioned study, the plasticizing effect of nanoemulsions has been observed in other systems (Bilbao‐Sáinz, Avena‐Bustillos, Wood, Williams, & McHugh, ; Du et al., ; Hosseini, Razavi, & Mousavi, ; Otoni, Moura, et al., ; Quezada Gallo, Debeaufort, Callegarin, & Voilley, ; Rojas‐Graü et al., ; Zúñiga, Skurtys, Osorio, Aguilera, & Pedreschi, ). On the contrary, nanoemulsions having plant essential oils and oil compounds as dispersed phases have been demonstrated to play an anti‐plasticizing role in biopolymer‐based films (Du et al., ; Otoni, Moura, et al., 2014; Rojas‐Graü et al., ).…”