Polymer-Based Nanostructured Barrier Materials
- 1st Edition - December 12, 2025
- Latest edition
- Editors: V. Prajitha, Sabu Thomas, Koloth Paduvilan Jibin
- Language: English
Polymer-Based Nanostructured Barrier Materials offers an in-depth exploration into the latest advancements in nanostructured barrier technologies. The book covers a range of topics… Read more
This comprehensive resource is aimed at researchers, advanced students, industrial scientists, engineers, and R&D professionals interested in barrier and nanomaterials.
- Covers nanostructured barrier materials, including thermoplastics, thermosets, elastomers, and biopolymers
- Supports implementation, explaining testing standards, modeling, simulation, barrier requirements, and materials selection
- Offers the latest techniques, trends, and applications in barrier-related materials at the nanoscale
1. Introduction to polymers as barrier materials
2. The Green Barrier: Biopolymers in Packaging
3. Growth and requirements of barrier materials in packaging
4. Nanomaterials as functional enablers in smart and active packaging
5. Oxygen and aroma barrier in films
6. Biodegradable packaging and gas barrier mechanism
7. Package industry growth
Part II: Properties and applications
8. Low conducting melt-mixed films of polypropylene and carbon nanofibers for antistatic packaging
9. Nanocellulose-based materials in packaging
10. Barrier properties of polymer nanoclay and hybrid composites
11. Barrier properties of polymer graphite, graphene, and their hybrid composites
12. Barrier properties of polymer polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane and hybrid composites
13. Graphene-based polymer nanocomposites as barrier coatings for corrosion protection
14. Applications of barrier films in the food industry
15. Standardized testing of nanostructured polymer-based barrier films` for edible fruit coatings
16. Nanostructured barrier materials for edible packaging
17. Biobased packaging
18. Polymeric barrier materials for biomedical applications
19. Polymeric nanocarriers for herbal medicine delivery and therapeutic applications
20. Natural bioactive polyphenols as ultraviolet barriers in biodegradable packaging
21. Smart packaging systems for quality preservation and food safety monitoring
22. Applications of barrier nanostructured electrospun polymeric fibers and nonwovens
23. Polysaccharide and proteins versus synthetic polymer aerogels to remove contaminants from contaminated water
24. Miscellaneous applications of polymers as barrier materials
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: December 12, 2025
- Language: English
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Sabu Thomas
Sabu Thomas is a Professor and Director of the International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. Professor Thomas is internationally recognized for his contributions to polymer science and engineering, with his research interests encompassing polymer nanocomposites, elastomers, polymer blends, interpenetrating polymer networks, polymer membranes, green composites, nanocomposites, nanomedicine, and green nanotechnology. His groundbreaking inventions in polymer nanocomposites, polymer blends, green bionanotechnology, and nano-biomedical sciences have significantly advanced the development of new materials for the automotive, space, housing, and biomedical fields.
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Koloth Paduvilan Jibin
Keloth Paduvilan Jibin is an assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry, Mahatma Gandhi College, Iritty Kannur, Kerala, India. He completed his Master of Science degree in Analytical Chemistry in 2016, and was ranked first in the MSc Analytical Chemistry at Mahatma Gandhi University. Jibin has presented several papers at national and international conferences. As part of his work on nanomaterials, he has been involved in projects on optical studies of samarium complexes, synthesized using curcumin, isolated from turmeric extract as ligand, and on the synthesis of Mg and Co co-doped ZnO-based diluted magnetic semi-conductors, for optoelectronic applications. Currently he is working in the area of hybrid polymer nanocomposites for engineering applications. He has published 10 journal articles, more than 10 book chapters and edited two books.