Food packaging and its oxygen transfer models in active multilayer structures: A theoretical review Rubia Viana Batista, Wanderson Gonçalves Wanzeller, Loong-Tak Lim, Ernesto Quast, Vânia Zanella Pinto, et al. Journal of Plastic Film and Sheeting, 2022 Many food products are sensitive to oxygen which can promote rancidity, aerobic microorganism growth, browning, vitamin degradation, flavor loss, and other undesirable reactions. Active packaging concepts have been successfully applied to delay these deteriorative phenomena. In particular, oxygen scavengers help limit O2 ingress into packaging thus extending product shelf-life and thereby reducing food waste. Besides oxygen barrier polymers, other composite materials have been developed to reduce the overall O2 permeability into the package by adding oxygen scavengers or barrier fillers into the packaging structures. Typical thermoplastic food packaging barrier properties are summarized, including commercially available ones, and reported in the patent literature. Furthermore, various mathematical models have been developed to predict the oxygen transport behavior in active packaging to simulate oxygen transport in polymeric and composite materials. Such models are helpful to provide a better understanding of the mass transport fundamentals involved and shorten product development cycle time and cost. This review provides an overview of various oxygen absorber systems used in active food packaging. It also summarizes the mathematical models that simulate oxygen transport and absorption in different polymer films. Finally, these models can be adapted for other polymers and O2 scavengers to simulate O2 transfer on active polymeric materials. Simulation tools help the fundamental understanding of the O2 transport behavior and facilitate to developing novel active packaging systems that extend food shelf-life and enhance their safety.
Confinement effects of ion tracks in ultrathin polymer films R. M. Papaléo, R. Thomaz, L. I. Gutierres, V. M. de Menezes, D. Severin, et al. Physical Review Letters, 2015 We show direct experimental evidence that radiation effects produced by single MeV heavy ions on a polymer surface are weakened when the length of the ion track in the material is confined into layers of a few tens of nanometers. Deviation from the bulk (thick film) behavior of ion-induced craters starts at a critical thickness as large as ∼40 nm, due to suppression of long-range additive effects of excited atoms along the track. Good agreement was found between the experimental results, molecular dynamic simulations, and an analytical model.
Carboxylated capped carbon nanotubes interacting with nimesulide molecules: Applied electric fields effects Vivian Machado de Menezes, Ivana Zanella, Solange Binotto Fagan Journal of Nanomaterials, 2015 Interactions of carboxylated capped carbon nanotubes with nimesulide molecules under electric fields were investigated byab initiosimulations. Repulsive forces between the nimesulide molecules and the carboxyl group of the carbon nanotubes, except for the nimesulide radical configuration, were observed. To keep the original molecule in the pristine form, electric fields with different intensities were applied, where changes in the behavior of the interactions between the molecules were noticed. It was shown that the intensity of the interaction between the nimesulide and the hydrophilic carboxylated capped carbon nanotube can be modulated by the action of the external electric fields making promising systems for drug delivery applications.
Molecules with biological interest adsorbed on carbon nanostructures Mariana Zancan Tonel, Vivian Machado de Menezes, Ivana Zanella, Solange Binotto Fagan Carbon Nanostructures, 2015 In the last decade, carbon nanostructures have been exhaustively studied mainly associated with their application in biosensors and drug delivery systems. In this context, the present chapter introduces several studies combining amino acids and pharmaceutical drugs with carbon nanostructures such as graphene, carbon nanotubes and fullerene. More specifically, the biomolecules under focus are the amino acid cysteine and the pharmaceutical drugs nimesulide, meloxicam and zidovudine. These molecules can be considered models for different chemical interactions or adsorptions with carbon nanostructures. The adsorptions analysed suggest possible applications such as biosensors or drug delivery depending on the use of particular pristine or functionalised carbon nanomaterials.
Pristine and functionalized capped carbon nanotubes under electric fields Vivian Machado de Menezes, Ronaldo Mota, Ivana Zanella, Solange Binotto Fagan Physica Status Solidi B Basic Research, 2014 The structural and electronic properties of end-capped carbon nanotubes (CCN) functionalized by carboxyl, amine, amide, and hydroxyl chemical groups under the action of electric fields are investigated through first-principles simulations based on density functional theory. Changes in the original properties of the functionalized capped nanotubes are observed due to the application of external electrical fields and the responses for different intensities are shown to be nonlinear. It is demonstrated that there are optimum values for the electric field to obtain the most stable binding energies for the studied systems. In all cases, the energy levels are rearranged to stabilize the systems and electric dipole moments are induced toward the incident electric field. It is also shown that these electric dipole moments generate polarized nanotubes and the previously weak physical interactions between molecules with the tube surface would become stronger and, by binding chemically, allow the manipulation of the intrinsic properties of the nanotubes. The structural and electronic properties of end-CCN pristine and functionalized by carboxyl, amine, amide, and hydroxyl chemical groups under the action of electric fields are investigated through first-principles simulations based on the density functional theory.
Metal-doped carbon nanotubes interacting with vitamin C Alisson R. Cadore, Ivana Zanella, Vivian M. de Menezes, Jussane Rossato, Ronaldo Mota, et al. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2012 In this paper, the structural, electronic and magnetic properties of carbon nanotubes doped with Al, Fe, Mn and Ti atoms interacting with vitamin C molecules are studied through first principles simulations based on the density functional theory. The charge transfers are obtained from the vitamins into the tubes for adsorption and substitutional doping cases. The highest binding energies of vitamin C molecules are calculated for the Al substitutional and Ti adsorbed cases, with values of about 1.20 and 3.26 eV, respectively. The results demonstrated that, depending on doping, the spin polarizations and the conductance characters of the systems can change, which could be relevant to improve the molecule adsorption on carbon nanostructures.
Carbon nanostructures interacting with vitamins A, B3 and C: Ab initio simulations Vivian Machado de Menezes, Elisane Michelon, Jussane Rossato, Ivana Zanella, Solange Binotto Fagan Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, 2012 The energetic and structural properties of fullerenes, carbon nanotubes and graphene interacting with vitamins A, B3 and C were studied by first principles simulations. These vitamins, which have antioxidant activities, give support to the cellular metabolism, have biochemical, therapeutic and cosmetic functions, and when combined with carbon nanostructures may have their chemical instability controlled. In this work, the results illustrate that the strongest interaction is between vitamin A and graphene. The binding energies found for the interactions between carbon nanostructures and these vitamins range from 0.10 to 0.93 eV. For all the configurations studied, a physisorption regime is observed without significant changes in the chemical and physical properties of the adsorbed vitamins, which is relevant for a drug delivery system.
Magnetization profile for impurities in graphene nanoribbons S. R. Power, V. M. de Menezes, S. B. Fagan, M. S. Ferreira Physical Review B Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 2011 The magnetic properties of graphene-related materials and in particular the spin-polarised edge states predicted for pristine graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with certain edge geometries have received much attention recently due to a range of possible technological applications. However, the magnetic properties of pristine GNRs are not predicted to be particularly robust in the presence of edge disorder. In this work, we examine the magnetic properties of GNRs doped with transition-metal atoms using a combination of mean-field Hubbard and Density Functional Theory techniques. The effect of impurity location on the magnetic moment of such dopants in GNRs is investigated for the two principal GNR edge geometries - armchair and zigzag. Moment profiles are calculated across the width of the ribbon for both substitutional and adsorbed impurities and regular features are observed for zigzag-edged GNRs in particular. Unlike the case of edge-state induced magnetisation, the moments of magnetic impurities embedded in GNRs are found to be particularly stable in the presence of edge disorder. Our results suggest that the magnetic properties of transition-metal doped GNRs are far more robust than those with moments arising intrinsically due to edge geometry.
Electronic transport properties of ascorbic acid and nicotinamide adsorbed on single-walled carbon nanotubes Vivian M. de Menezes, Alexandre R. Rocha, Ivana Zanella, Ronaldo Mota, Adalberto Fazzio, et al. Chemical Physics Letters, 2011 Ab initio simulations of carbon nanotubes interacting with ascorbic acid and nicotinamide are reported. The electronic transport properties of these systems are studied using a combination of density functional theory and non-equilibrium Green’s functions methods. The adsorptions of both molecules are observed to depend strongly on their functionalization. The interaction through the appropriate functionalized species modifies the structural and electronic properties of the original system, resulting in a chemisorption regime. Changes in the electronic transport properties are also observed, with reductions on the total electronic transmission probabilities. Nevertheless, when the molecules interact through the pristine form, a physisorption interaction is observed with insignificant structural and electronic transport changes.
Electronic, structural and transport properties of nicotinamide and ascorbic acid molecules interacting with carbon nanotubes Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 2009
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