Heredia, AntonioDomínguez, EvaGuzmán Puyol, SusanaHeredia Guerrero, José A.Benítez Jiménez, José Jesús2018-04-172018-04-172015Heredia, A., Domínguez, E., Guzmán Puyol, S., Heredia Guerrero, J.A. y Benítez Jiménez, J.J. (2015). Long-chain polyhydroxyesters from natural occurring aleuritic acid as potential material for food packaging. Soft Materials, 13 (1), 5-11.1539-445Xhttps://hdl.handle.net/11441/73019Fatty 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.application/pdfengAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Biomimetic polymersFood packagingRenewable polyestersinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://doi.org/10.1080/1539445X.2014.993476