Cationic Starch Emulsified Beeswax for Enhancing Moisture Barrier of Paper as Packaging Materials

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10.2991/icmse-15.2015.204How to use a DOI?

Keywords

cationic starch; latex; cellulose fibre; hydrophobic.

Abstract

Cationic starch was used as an emulsifier to emulsify beeswax into latex, which was utilized for lowering the water vapor transmission rate (WVTR or moisture barrier of the paper used as food packaging materials. The method of wet-end addition was used for applying the emulsions to the papers. The weight ratio of cationic starch to beeswax was mainly investigated as the key factor affecting the particle size of emulsion, adsorption efficiency and WVTR values. The lowest value of WVTR was found to be 460 g/m2•day at 38 °C and 90% of relative humidity (RH), more than 60% reduction, compared to that of the untreated blank paper (1180 g/m2•day), resulting from the wet-end treatment, which generate green-based and biodegradable packaging materials with improved moisture barrier property.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yuanfeng Pan
AU  - Huining Xiao
AU  - Kunqi Li
AU  - Jixiao Xu
PY  - 2015/12
DA  - 2015/12
TI  - Cationic Starch Emulsified Beeswax for Enhancing Moisture Barrier of Paper as Packaging Materials
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 6th International Conference on Manufacturing Science and Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1126
EP  - 1129
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icmse-15.2015.204
DO  - 10.2991/icmse-15.2015.204
ID  - Pan2015/12
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