Cellulose Nanomaterials Barrier Mechanical Properties for Flexible packaging Films Using Nanocellulose and Minerals

摘要

Commodity prices have stopped their century long downward trend and we are now seeing a progressive rise in the face of demand from rapidly growing overseas economies. Demands for food, materials energy and water will change our industrial landscape and we will have to use greater volumes of renewable biomass and super-abundant minerals with green chemistry that will mimic nature in terms of materials made with lower energy content and less solvent and other hazardous materials. Nature provides copious examples of high strength composites, with excellent barrier performance, made at ambient temperatures with no industrial solvents. This presentation will outline how the tools developed through nanotechnology investments have allowed us to see and understand material building blocks in new ways. Brief summaries will also be presented on aspects of biomimetic materials.