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Polymer-Based Nanostructured Barrier Materials

  • 1st Edition - December 10, 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

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Description

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 including processing, characterization, and applications, with a focus on polymeric materials utilized in barrier contexts. It details thermoplastics, thermoset polymers, elastomers, specialty elastomers, and biopolymers. The book delves into barrier mechanisms, testing standards, theoretical modeling, simulation, and industrial requirements for nanostructured barrier materials in packaging. It also addresses preparation for specific properties and applications such as edible packaging, active and intelligent packaging, corrosion protection, tire engineering, environmental remediation, and other novel uses.

This comprehensive resource is aimed at researchers, advanced students, industrial scientists, engineers, and R&D professionals interested in barrier and nanomaterials.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Academia: Researchers and advanced students in nanomaterials and nanotechnology, polymer science, barrier materials, coatings, packaging, chemistry, and materials science and engineeringIndustry: Scientists, engineers, and R&D professionals with an interest in barrier materials and advanced nanomaterials for a range of applications, notably packaging

Table of contents

Part I: Materials for nanostructured barrier materials

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

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 12, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editors

VP

V. Prajitha

V. Prajitha is a research associate at the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. She completed her Master of Science degree in biopolymer science at Cochin University of Science and Technology, India. Her research focuses on self-assembling nanomaterials, such as nanosilica, graphene oxide, and rubber nanocomposites. She has also co-edited one book, entitled Colloidal Metal Oxide Nanoparticles, published by Elsevier.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Scholar in the School of Chemical Sciences and JRF, under the DST Nanomission Project, International and Inter-University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India

ST

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.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India; Department of Physics and Electronics, Christ University, Bangalore, India; Center of Excellence in Polymeric Materials for Medical Practice Devices, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand; TrEST Research Park, Trivandrum, Kerala, India

KJ

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.

Affiliations and expertise
Senior Researcher, School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, India

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