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CMC-based functional film incorporated with copper-doped TiO2 to prevent banana browning
, Article Food Hydrocolloids ; Volume 122 , 2022 ; 0268005X (ISSN) ; Riahi, Z ; Rhim, J. W ; Sharif University of Technology
Elsevier B.V
2022
Abstract
Titanium dioxide (TiO2) and Cu-doped TiO2 (Cu–TiO2) were synthesized using a sol-gel method and used as nanofillers to prepare CMC-based functional packaging films. The Cu–TiO2 was spherical particles with a size range of 66.1 ± 9.0 nm TiO2 and Cu–TiO2 nanoparticles had good compatibility with CMC and were evenly distributed in the CMC polymer matrix to form a composite film. The TiO2-added film did not show significant antibacterial activity, but the Cu–TiO2-added film exhibited high antibacterial activity against foodborne pathogenic bacteria (L. monocytogenes and E. coli) under visible light. When bananas were packaged with the CMC-based films, the CMC/Cu–TiO2 film effectively delayed the...