Pressure-assisted thermal sterilization effects on gas barrier, morphological, and free volume properties of multilayer EVOH films

Journal of Food Engineering

Volumn 128, Issue , 2014, Pages 40-45

  Dhawan, Sumeet ^a   Varney, Christopher ^a   Barbosa Cánovas, Gustavo V ^a   Tang, Juming ^a   Selim, Farida ^a   Sablani, Shyam S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Free volume; Gas transmission; High pressure processing; Positron; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

FREE VOLUME DISTRIBUTION; FREE VOLUME PROPERTIES; GAS TRANSMISSION; HIGH PRESSURE PROCESSING; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES (PET); POSITRON ANNIHILATION LIFETIME SPECTROSCOPY; THERMAL STERILIZATION; WATER VAPOR TRANSMISSION RATE;

FREE VOLUME; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; MORPHOLOGY; MULTILAYER FILMS; MULTILAYERS; NANOCOMPOSITES; PACKAGING MATERIALS; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRONS; STERILIZATION (CLEANING); X RAY DIFFRACTION;

GAS PERMEABLE MEMBRANES;

EID: 84892173851     PISSN: 02608774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2013.12.012     Document Type: Article

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