GIDA AMBALAJLAMASINDA NANOTEKNOLOJİ UYGULAMALARI: İNORGANİK NANOPARTİKÜLLERİN KULLANIMI.

Research and development activities that help to improve the shelf-life and safety of foods for the improvement of packaging materials to preserve the nutritional value are continued. Nanotechnology is also used in research and development activities. Materials may exhibit some different properties when reduced into nano-scale than they were in macroscopic size. The use of nanoparticles as the filler material in producing food packaging material, whereby to improve the properties of packaging material is known to have beneficial effects on the shelf life of foods. The use of inorganic nanoparticles in nanocomposite packaging film production, is a relatively new research area. In this review, the potential uses of inorganic nanoparticles in production of food packaging material and the nanocomposite films features which are produced from inorganic nanoparticles of silver, zinc oxide and titanium dioxide are explained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]