Modeling the water barrier properties of nylon film intended for food packaging applications

Journal of Food Science

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1334-1340

  Del Nobile, Matteo Alessandro ^a   Buonocore, G G ^b   Altieri, C ^a   Battaglia, G ^b   Nicolais, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Modeling; Nylon; Packaging; Water permeability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038189799     PISSN: 00221147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2621.2003.tb09647.x     Document Type: Article

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