High oxygen barrier, clay and chitosan-based multilayer thin films: An environmentally friendly foil replacement

Green Materials

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 4-10

  Laufer, Galina ^a   Priolo, Morgan A ^a   Kirkland, Christopher ^a   Grunlan, Jaime C ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Coatings; Nanoscale materials; Packaging; Thin films

Indexed keywords

CHITOSAN; COATINGS; FILM PREPARATION; MULTILAYER FILMS; MULTILAYERS; OXYGEN; PACKAGING; PACKAGING MATERIALS; PLASTIC BOTTLES; THIN FILMS;

LAYER-BY-LAYER ASSEMBLIES; MONTMORILLONITE CLAY; MULTI-LAYER THIN FILM; MULTILAYERED THIN FILMS; NANO-SCALE MATERIALS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; OXYGEN TRANSMISSION RATES; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES (PET);

GAS PERMEABLE MEMBRANES;

EID: 85041697302     PISSN: 20491220     EISSN: 20491239     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/gmat.12.00002     Document Type: Article

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