TY - DATA T1 - Long-Chain Polyhydroxyesters from Natural Occurring Aleuritic Acid as Potential Material for Food Packaging PY - 2015/04/14 AU - José Jesús Benítez AU - José Alejandro Heredia-Guerrero AU - Susana Guzmán-Puyol AU - Eva Domínguez AU - Antonio Heredia UR - https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Long_Chain_Polyhydroxyesters_from_Natural_Occurring_Aleuritic_Acid_as_Potential_Material_for_Food_Packaging/1264024 DO - 10.6084/m9.figshare.1264024.v3 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1829408 KW - aleuritic KW - Food Packaging Fatty polyhydroxyesters KW - scalable synthesis route KW - Polyhydroxyester KW - coating KW - agent KW - polymerization KW - Potential Material KW - Natural Occurring Aleuritic KW - strategy KW - cutin KW - mimicry KW - food packaging films KW - noncatalyzed KW - material KW - polyhydroxylated monomer KW - polyhydroxyestere KW - hydroxyl groups KW - biopolymer KW - barrier polymers KW - trihydroxypalmitic KW - tissue KW - palmitic acid KW - increase hydrophobicity KW - nature N2 - Fatty polyhydroxyesters (C≥16) are present in nature as barrier polymers like cutin in some protective tissues of higher plants. The mimicry of these biopolymers is regarded as a strategy to design nontoxic and fully biodegradable food packaging films and coatings. To obtain cutin inspired materials we have used a natural occurring polyhydroxylated monomer like aleuritic (9,10,16-trihydroxypalmitic) acid and a direct and scalable synthesis route consisting in the noncatalyzed melt-condensation polymerization in air. To reduce the number of hydroxyl groups and to increase hydrophobicity, palmitic acid has been used as a capping agent. Aleuritic-palmitic polyhydroxyesteres films have been obtained and characterized. ER -