Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40238294›Full record

ArticleFoods (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Percolation Threshold of Bacterial Nanocrystals in Biopolymeric Matrices to Build Up Strengthened Biobased Food Packaging.

Fabíola Medeiros da Costa, Pamela Thais Sousa Melo, Pedro Henrique Kenzo Nishimoto, Marcos Vinicius Lorevice, Fauze Ahmad Aouada, Márcia Regina de Moura

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Foods (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Fabíola Medeiros da CostaHybrid Composites and Nanocomposites Group (GCNH), Department of Physics and Chemistry, School of Engineering, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Ilha Solteira 15385-000, SP, Brazil.
Pamela Thais Sousa MeloHybrid Composites and Nanocomposites Group (GCNH), Department of Physics and Chemistry, School of Engineering, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Ilha Solteira 15385-000, SP, Brazil.
Pedro Henrique Kenzo NishimotoBrazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory (LNNano), Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Campinas 13083-970, SP, Brazil.
Marcos Vinicius LoreviceBrazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory (LNNano), Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Campinas 13083-970, SP, Brazil.
Fauze Ahmad AouadaHybrid Composites and Nanocomposites Group (GCNH), Department of Physics and Chemistry, School of Engineering, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Ilha Solteira 15385-000, SP, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-6870-6961
Márcia Regina de MouraHybrid Composites and Nanocomposites Group (GCNH), Department of Physics and Chemistry, School of Engineering, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Ilha Solteira 15385-000, SP, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-2534-5553

Funding

CNPQ 408691/2023-9; 315513/2021-7; 316174/2021-1FAPESP 2019/06170-1MCTI 406973/2022-9
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacterial cellulose nanocrystals (BCNCs) extracted from cellulose residues, resulting from film-cutting operations used for the commercial production of dressings, were studied as reinforcement for films based on gelatin, pectin, and hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose (HPMC). The biopolymer matrices differ in their monomer and functional group (gelatin: -COOH and -NH; pectin: -COOH and HPMC -OH). The addition of BCNCs into a polymer matrix for biopolymeric nanocomposite formulation was based on values around the theoretical percolation threshold. The results of this study showed that the BCNCs had a diameter and mean length range of (27 ± 1) nm and (180 ± 10) nm, respectively, producing films reaching 120.13 MPa of tensile strength, 10.9 GPa of Young's modulus, and a toughness of 335.17 × 10

Indexed as

bacterial cellulose nanocrystalsgelatinHPMCpackagingpectinpercolation threshold

Identifiers

PMID40238294
PMCPMC11988795

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.