{"id":124948,"date":"2021-08-10T18:03:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T12:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=124948"},"modified":"2021-08-11T12:08:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T06:38:12","slug":"scientists-develop-carbon-based-non-toxic-and-reusable-wrapper-to-increase-shelf-life-of-fruits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scientists-develop-carbon-based-non-toxic-and-reusable-wrapper-to-increase-shelf-life-of-fruits\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists develop carbon-based non-toxic and reusable wrapper to increase shelf-life of fruits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1744053\"><b> PIB<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian Scientists have developed a composite paper made of carbon (graphene oxide) loaded with preservatives that can be used as wrappers to help extend shelf life of fruits.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the present system?<\/b><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fruits are highly perishable and about 50% of the produce gets wasted, causing huge losses.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conventional preservation relies on coating the fruits with preservatives like resin, wax, or edible polymer.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, this current <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">preservative dipping technology leads to preservatives being absorbed by the fruit causing chronic toxicity to the consumers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>What did the scientists develop?<\/b><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian Scientists have developed a <strong>graphene oxide carbon wrapper<\/strong> that <strong>releases the preservative only when needed<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The wrapper is <strong>non-toxic<\/strong> and can also be <strong>reused<\/strong> which is not possible with the present technology.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>About Graphene:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Graphene is a <\/span><b>single layer (monolayer) of carbon atoms <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">arranged in a honeycomb-like pattern.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Graphene is considered<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to be the world&#8217;s thinnest, strongest and most conductive material &#8211; of both electricity and heat.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Uses:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It can be used in applications ranging from miniaturised<\/span><b> electronics to biomedical devices<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> like computers, solar panels, batteries, sensors and other devices.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: PIB What is the News? Indian Scientists have developed a composite paper made of carbon (graphene oxide) loaded with preservatives that can be used as wrappers to help extend shelf life of fruits.\u00a0 What is the present system? Fruits are highly perishable and about 50% of the produce gets wasted, causing huge losses.\u00a0 Conventional&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scientists-develop-carbon-based-non-toxic-and-reusable-wrapper-to-increase-shelf-life-of-fruits\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scientists develop carbon-based non-toxic and reusable wrapper to increase shelf-life of fruits<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[8822,8821],"class_list":["post-124948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-graphene-oxide-carbon-wrapper","tag-indigenization-of-technology-in-agriculture","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":2,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701003926},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}