{"id":198494,"date":"2022-08-03T19:06:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T13:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=198494"},"modified":"2022-08-03T19:06:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T13:36:02","slug":"biodegradable-biopolymer-nanocomposite-that-detects-relative-humidity-can-monitor-packed-food-freshness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/biodegradable-biopolymer-nanocomposite-that-detects-relative-humidity-can-monitor-packed-food-freshness\/","title":{"rendered":"Biodegradable biopolymer nanocomposite that detects relative humidity can monitor packed food freshness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Biodegradable biopolymer nanocomposite that detects relative humidity can monitor packed food freshness<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> PIB <\/b>on<b> 2nd August 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists have developed a biodegradable, biopolymer nanocomposite that can detect relative humidity and can find applications as smart packaging materials, especially for the food industry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Background<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The food industry has an increasing need for non-toxic, biodegradable, low-cost and environmentally friendly materials for use as packaging materials to replace petroleum-based materials like plastics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Besides, it also needs smart and active packaging materials to detect and report food quality in a real-time fashion. Such smart and active packaging systems respond to signals while interacting with the food packaging environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perishable packed foods are easily damaged by the change in relative humidity.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What has been developed by scientists?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists have developed a smart biodegradable biopolymer nanocomposite which can detect relative humidity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this, two biopolymers, Guar Gum (a variety of beans obtained from plants) and Alginate (obtained from brown algae) were blended with carbon dots (nanomaterial) to make a nanocomposite film that was successfully used to detect relative humidity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This fabricated nanocomposite film is an excellent smart sensor based on the fluorescence \u2018on-off\u2019 mechanisms against humidity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence, this development can<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> find application as smart packaging materials, especially for the food industry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cBiodegradable biopolymer nanocomposite that detects relative humidity can monitor packed food freshness\u201d published in PIB on 2nd August 2022. What is the News? Scientists have developed a biodegradable, biopolymer nanocomposite that can detect relative humidity and can find applications as smart packaging materials, especially for the food&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/biodegradable-biopolymer-nanocomposite-that-detects-relative-humidity-can-monitor-packed-food-freshness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biodegradable biopolymer nanocomposite that detects relative humidity can monitor packed food freshness<\/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":[3590],"class_list":["post-198494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704945836},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198494","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=198494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}