Design and mechanism of controllable respiration polyamideamine-epichlorohydrin modied sugarcane bagasse pith hemicellulose film

The major challenge in hemicellulose blend films for food packaging is to overcome the inferior wet strength and hydrophilic properties of hemicellulose-based films. Inspired by the principle of wet strength of paper, novel bio-based packaging film with high barrier and strength properties was designed via bagasse pith hemicellulose as main substrate materials and polyamideamine-epichlorohydrin (PAE) as strengthening agent. The chemical characterization showed that the mechanical and barrier properties of the blend films were found to be strongly dependent upon the amount of PAE added in the films. Compared with the film without PAE, the tensile strength of PAE-containing film with optimal amount of 1% PAE increased by 100.25%, the water vapor permeability decreased by 23.25%, and the oxygen permeability decreased by 87.18%. The results showed that the new ester bond formed between PAE and hemicellulose caused the more excellent mechanical and barrier properties of films.