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Antioxidant migration resistance of SiOx layer in SiOx/PLA coated film

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Pages 366-376 | Received 17 Feb 2017, Accepted 10 Jul 2017, Published online: 23 Aug 2017
 

ABSTRACT

As novel materials for food contact packaging, inorganic silicon oxide (SiOx) films are high barrier property materials that have been developed rapidly and have attracted the attention of many manufacturers. For the safe use of SiOx films for food packaging it is vital to study the interaction between SiOx layers and food contaminants, as well as the function of a SiOx barrier layer in antioxidant migration resistance. In this study, we deposited a SiOx layer on polylactic acid (PLA)-based films to prepare SiOx/PLA coated films by plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition. Additionally, we compared PLA-based films and SiOx/PLA coated films in terms of the migration of different antioxidants (e.g. t-butylhydroquinone [TBHQ], butylated hydroxyanisole [BHA], and butylated hydroxytoluene [BHT]) via specific migration experiments and then investigated the effects of a SiOx layer on antioxidant migration under different conditions. The results indicate that antioxidant migration from SiOx/PLA coated films is similar to that for PLA-based films: with increase of temperature, decrease of food simulant polarity, and increase of single-sided contact time, the antioxidant migration rate and amount in SiOx/PLA coated films increase. The SiOx barrier layer significantly reduced the amount of migration of antioxidants with small and similar molecular weights and similar physical and chemical properties, while the degree of migration blocking was not significantly different among the studied antioxidants. However, the migration was affected by temperature and food simulant. Depending on the food simulants considered, the migration amount in SiOx/PLA coated films was reduced compared with that in PLA-based films by 42–46%, 44–47%, and 44–46% for TBHQ, BHA, and BHT, respectively.

Acknowledgments

The authors thank Prof. Qiang Chen and Mr Qinbao Lin for their excellent technical assistance.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This study received financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (2156070033) and the Guangxi Natural Science Foundation of China (2015jjAA60108).

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