Stefano Farris

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe both technical aspects and commercial applications of the most representative intelligent technologies (indicators, data carriers, and sensors) with special focus on systems and devices that are directly integrated into the package.

TL;DR: The reduction protocol in this study allowed to achieve the highest conductivity values reported so far for the aqueous reduction of graphene oxide mediated by sodium borohydride, reflected in the dramatic change in the structural stability of the rGO nanofoams produced by freeze-drying.

TL;DR: FT-IR, in combination with residual amino group determination using a fluorescence technique, has been used to investigate the chemical functional groups involved in the cross-linking reaction between glutaraldehyde and gelatin molecules, suggesting that the reaction may also involve the -OH groups of hydroxyproline and hydroxylysine, leading to the formation of hemiacetals.

TL;DR: In this paper, the fundamental chemistry underlying three forms of hydrogels, physical, chemical and interpenetrating polymer networks (IPN), is integrated to produce a new family of food packaging materials from biopolymers, illustrated here using gelatin and low-methoxyl-pectin as examples.

TL;DR: Absorption and spreading were the key factors governing the overall mechanism of surface wetting during the 60 s analysis, although the individual quantification of both phenomena demonstrated that spreading provided the largest contribution for all biopolymers, with the only exception of gelatin, which showed two quasi-equivalent and counterbalancing effects.