Polyvinyl Alcohol/Halloysite Nanotube Bionanocomposites as Biodegradable Packaging Materials

Zainab Waheed Abdullah is currently a PhD student at the School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at Curtin University, Australia. She was previously an assistant lecturer at the Department of Material Engineering, Technical Engineering College-Baghdad, Middle Technical University, Iraq. Her wide-ranging research interests include bionanocomposites, biopolymers and materials characterisation, particularly for low cycle fatigue.  Dr. Yu Dong is a senior lecturer at the School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University, Australia. He has extensive research experience in the field of polymer nanocomposites, electrospun nanofibres, green composites, micromechanical modelling, nanomanufacturing and design of experiments. He is a lead book editor of "Manufacturing, Characterisation and Properties of Advanced Nanocomposites", MDPI, Switzerland, and "Fillers and Reinforcements for Advanced Nanocomposites", Elsevier, UK, and a solebook editor of "Nanostructures: Properties, Production Methods and Applications", NOVA Science Publishers, USA. He is also an associate editor of the journals “Frontiers in Materials” (Polymeric and Composite Materials section) and “Applied Nanoscience”.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Materials, Manufacturing Process and Characterisation Methods.- Chapter 3: Morphological, Mechanical and Thermal Properties of PVA/ HNT Bionanocomposite Films.- Chapter 4: Water Resistance and Biodegradation of PVA /HNT Bionanocomposite Films.- Chapter 5:  Barrier Properties of PVA/ HNT Bionanocomposite Films.- Chapter 6: Component Migration of PVA/HNT Bionanocomposite Films.