Design of microbial polysaccharide films for food packaging
Journal: Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT)
Year: 2016

The overuse of synthetic non-biodegradable plastic packaging in the last decades turned into a serious global environmental problem, once recycling and energy recovery are not perfect solutions. To overcome this problem, efforts have been done by researchers around the world to use biodegradable biopolymers from renewable resources as food packaging materials. In this thesis, FucoPol, a microbial exopolysaccharide has been studied as a sustainable alternative and the following questions were rai