The European Green Deal prioritizes enhancing people's wellbeing by striving for climate neutrality and safeguarding the environment, which benefits citizens, the planet, and the economy. Packaging plays a crucial role within the Green Deal, particularly concerning food production, preservation, and addressing plastic-related challenges tied to five of its 11 priorities: pollution elimination,...
For environmental, economic and societal reasons, the replacement of fossil resources (oil, gas, coal) is nowadays a crucial necessity and a real challenge for the 21st century. In this quest, the use of biomass resources can be considered as an alternative route, in line with a sustainable and environmentally friendly approach. Thus, biomass can provide a wide variety of biobased molecules...
In this presentation, the non-invasive analytical investigation of ancient Islamic gold coins is presented. A two-fold methodology was deployed: first, portable X-ray fluorescence was used in order to analyse the elemental profile. Second, a smartphone-based procedure was developed and validated to obtain the CIELAB descriptors of the samples.
Based on the elemental profile, a stable...
The Corana process is a technique based on non-thermal plasma. This low-energy technology is well known in industry for surface functionalisation and is gaining interest in the agro-food sector as a multi-tool for packaging: surface disinfection without harmful chemicals, support for printing processes, increase of adhesion of coatings. In this work, the corona process is studied along a...
