Sustainable Materials for Food Packaging and Preservation

Tabli Ghosh is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Engineering and Technology at Tezpur University, India. She obtained her PhD degree from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. During her PhD, she has received DST INSPIRE Fellowship. Dr. Ghosh was a special research student at the United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Gifu University, Japan, during her PhD with JASSO Fellowship. Additionally, she has also been the gold medalist during her Bachelor of Technology and Master of Technology in the Department of Food Engineering and Technology at Tezpur University, India. Her work mainly focuses on food nanotechnology, functional materials, sustainable materials, biodegradable polymers, bionanocomposites, edible food packaging, and product development.Dr. Ruchir Priyadarshi is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at the Humanities Convergence Research center, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea. Before joining this position, he served as a Brain Pool Fellow (2019-2024) at the Department of Food and Nutrition, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. He obtained his Ph.D. (2018) from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, in Biodegradable Food Packaging. He served as Head of Biopolymer Innovations at Yash Papers Ltd. India (2018-2019), where he worked on the development of bagasse-based molded tableware products. His research interests include active food packaging, functional materials, sustainable materials, biodegradable polymers, and bionanocomposites. Dr. Priyadarshi is a reputed reviewer for several peer-reviewed international journals in the Food Technology and Materials Science research areas. Recently, he has been awarded as a Highly Cited Researcher (top 1% globally) in Agricultural Sciences by Clarivate Analytics for the year 2024.Dr. Swarup Roy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Food Technology and Nutrition at Lovely Professional University, India, and an Eminent Scholar at Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea. His research expertise spans bio-nanocomposite materials, biopolymer-based functional composites, nanotechnology, and sustainable food packaging. His work focuses on developing advanced materials for intelligent, active, and environmentally responsible packaging applications. Dr. Roy has held research and academic positions at leading institutions in India and South Korea and actively contributes to the scientific community through editorial and guest editorial roles for several international journals in materials science, nanotechnology, and food science.

• 1. Sustainable materials in food packaging and preservation: an introduction2. Biomass derived sustainable materials: fabrication, processing and food application3. Microbial derived biomaterials: fabrication, processing and food application4. Polylactic acid: a chemically derived polymers for sustainable packaging5. Protein as a sustainable biopolymer for food packaging and preservation6. Bionanostructured materials in food packaging and preservation7. Bionanocomposites in food packaging and preservation8. Biodegradable polymer blends in food packaging and preservation9. Valorization of agrowaste Derived Materials for Food Packaging Application10. Edible films and coatings: A route towards sustainable future11. Sustainable active food packaging12. Sustainable antimicrobial packaging13. Sustainable Smart Packaging14. Biodegradable foams for Food Packaging15. Nanoemulsion in sustainable food packaging and preservation16. Biomolecule based nanoencapsulation for food preservation17. Testing protocols for sustainable materials, packaging and shelf life