Transparent films based on PLA and montmorillonite with tunable oxygen barrier properties

Anna Justina Hanner; Anna Karin Louise Åkesson; Marite Cardenas Gomez; Sanja Bulut; Jes Christian Knudsen; Jens Risbo; David Plackett

doi:10.1021/bm201438m

Transparent films based on PLA and montmorillonite with tunable oxygen barrier properties

Anna Justina Hanner, Anna Karin Louise Åkesson, Marite Cardenas Gomez, Sanja Bulut, Jes Christian Knudsen, Jens Risbo, David Plackett

Department of Chemistry

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Abstract

Polylactide (PLA) is viewed as a potential material to replace synthetic plastics (e.g., poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET)) in food packaging, and there have been a number of developments in this direction. However, for PLA to be competitive in more demanding uses such as the packaging of oxygen-sensitive foods, the oxygen permeability coefficient (OP) needs to be reduced by a factor of ∼10. To achieve this, a layer-by-layer (Lbl) approach was used to assemble alternating layers of montmorillonite clay and chitosan on extruded PLA film surfaces. When 70 bilayers were applied, the OP was reduced by 99 and 96%, respectively, at 20 and 50% RH. These are, to our knowledge, the best improvements in oxygen barrier properties ever reported for a PLA/clay-based film. The process of assembling such multilayer structures was characterized using a quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring. Transmission electron microscopy revealed a well-ordered laminar structure in the deposited multilayer coatings, and light transmittance results demonstrated the high optical clarity of the coated PLA films.

Original language	English
Journal	Biomacromolecules
Volume	13
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	397-405
Number of pages	9
ISSN	1525-7797
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/bm201438m
Publication status	Published - 13 Feb 2012

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