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. 2022 Mar 5;2022:7557825. doi: 10.1155/2022/7557825

Table 3.

Food barriers of copper oxide biocomposite films as food packaging applications in different studies.

Study Film sample Vis light (600 nm) WVP WS (%) RH CO2 (mL·m−2 day−1) O2 (mL·m−2 day−1) Moisture (%)
[142] Agar/CuONPs 13.9 ± 0.7 1.18 ± 0.06 Not reported 50% RH for 48h, 25°C Not reported Not reported Not reported
Alginate/CuONPs 14.3 ± 0.4 1.35 ± 0.17
Carrageenan/CuONPs 15.8 ± 0.9 1.19 ± 0.08
Chitosan/CuONPs 75.4 ± 0.9 1.03 ± 0.17
CMC/CuONPs 9.63 ± 0.5 1.40 ± 0.08

[159] Starch Not reported 11.46 ± 0.23 32.25 ± 0.85 50 ± 5% RH for 48h, 25°C Not reported Not reported Not reported
Starch-Ag (1%) 10.49 ± 0.14 30.13 ± 0.74
Starch-ZnO (1%) 10.15 ± 0.14 27.57 ± 0.81
Starch-CuO (1%) 10.79 ± 0.20 30.86 ± 0.60
Starch-Ag-ZnO-CuO 10.70 ± 0.24 30.61 ± 0.47

[160] Neat PLA Not reported 15.94 Not reported Not reported 873 1308 Not reported
PLA/ZnO : Cu/Ag (0%) 13.70 260 104
PLA/ZnO : Cu/Ag (0.5%) 11.35 230 97
PLA/ZnO : Cu/Ag (1%) 18.72 Invalid test Invalid test
PLA/ZnO : Cu/Ag (1.5%) 15.60 Invalid test Invalid test

[162] Chitosan film Not reported 3 × 10−3 ± 0.0001 Not reported 50% RH for 24h, 20°C Not reported Not reported 33.7 ± 1.7
CuONPs-chi film 3 × 10−4 ± 0.0001 6.1 ± 2.2

[149] Sodium alginate (1%)-CuONPs (1 mM) Not reported Not reported Not reported Not reported Not reported Not reported ∼12.6
Sodium alginate (3%)-CuONPs (1 mM) ∼12.4
Sodium alginate (3%)-CuONPs (5 mM) ∼14.7
CNW (0.5%)-SA (3%)-CuoNPS (5 mM) ∼13