{"id":15652,"date":"2012-02-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20120206-07n"},"modified":"2012-02-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T22:00:00","slug":"green-matter-bioplastics-out-of-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/green-matter-bioplastics-out-of-the-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Matter: Bioplastics out of the woods?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Gas barrier properties are the Achilles heel when it comes to using biopolymers in (fresh) food packaging. Around the world, scientists and industry are working &#8211; often together &#8211; to develop feasible alternatives based on renewable resources to replace the use of conventional petroleum-based plastics. Solutions up to now have mainly involved the use of &#8216;hybrid&#8217; laminates; at the same time technologies such as atomic layer deposition, in which Al2O3 coatings with thicknesses of 10-50 nm are &#8220;grown&#8221; on bioplastic materials, are being explored to discover whether these produce suitable barriers for use in food packaging, without affecting the biodegradability.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>By comparison, the use of wood to improve permeability against, for example, oxygen, sounds relatively low-tech; old school, even.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full Text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticstoday.com\/articles\/green-matter-bioplastics-out-woods-0206201203\" >http:\/\/www.plasticstoday.com\/articles\/green-matter-bioplastics-out-woods-0206201203<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: MFC<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Gas barrier properties are the Achilles heel when it comes to using biopolymers in (fresh) food packaging. Around the world, scientists and industry are working<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[504,512],"class_list":["post-15652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-borregaard","supplier-sintef"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15652"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}