Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2018 Jul 11;8(7):518. doi: 10.3390/nano8070518

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© 2018 by the authors.

Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

PMC Copyright notice

(a) Weight loss of sponges soaked in water and stored for up to 25 h at 23 °C and 32% relative humidity (RH). Sponges were stored without coating or after dip coating with RS and RS/yeast suspensions, respectively; (b) Evaluation of bananas’ degradation. Fruits were stored at 23 °C and 32% RH as received and after coating with a silk/yeast film. Time lapse photography of banana degradation, indicating that the silk/yeast coating reduces the degradation rate; (c) CO₂ variation of uncoated, RS-coated, and RS/yeast-coated bananas, respectively.

(a) Weight loss of sponges soaked in water and stored for up to 25 h at 23 °C and 32% relative humidity (RH). Sponges were stored without coating or after dip coating with RS and RS/yeast suspensions, respectively; (b) Evaluation of bananas’ degradation. Fruits were stored at 23 °C and 32% RH as received and after coating with a silk/yeast film. Time lapse photography of banana degradation, indicating that the silk/yeast coating reduces the degradation rate; (c) CO₂ variation of uncoated, RS-coated, and RS/yeast-coated bananas, respectively.