EU RESEARCH PROJECT MAKES BIOFILMS MORE WATER RESISTANT
April 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLA EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project says it has used cutting edge technology to develop bio-polymer based food packaging that can replace materials based on petrochemicals such as polymers, reducing pollution and demand for mineral oils. Professor Chris Breen of Sheffield Hallam University, a member of the EU SUSTAINPACK project, said his team was incorporating tiny nano-clay particles in biopolymer films to make them as water resistant as standard polymer packaging. To make them "more compatible with, and disperse throughout the biopolymer ...
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