The interactions between -carrageenan and chitosan, two oppositely charged polysaccharides, have been investigated through microcalorimetric and quartz crystal microbalance measurements. Microcalorimetric measurements show that -carrageenan/chitosan interaction is an exothermic process and that the alternate deposition of -carrageenan and chitosan results in the formation of a nanolayered coating mainly due ...
Nanolayered coatings of κ-carrageenan, a polysaccharide with good gas barrier properties, and lysozyme, a protein with antimicrobial action, were in a first stage assembled on aminolysed/charged polyethylene terephthalate (PET) pieces, which acted as a support, by alternate five-layer deposition. This was performed to allow the characterization of the nanomultilayer system. PET aminolysis was confirmed by Fouri...
A nanomultilayer coating made of food-grade, bio-based materials (consisting of five nanolayers of pectin and chitosan) was produced. This coating was firstly characterized in terms of the water vapor, oxygen and carbon dioxide permeabilities; these parameters exhibited values of 0.019 ± 0.005 × 10−11, 0.069 ± 0.066 × 10−14 and 44.8 ± 32 × 10−14 g m/(Pa s m2), respectively, and are of the same order of magnitud...
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