Covalent Organic Frameworks in Smart Food Packaging: Advances, Challenges, and Future Prospects
Sara Esteghlal, Hossein Daneshgar, Navid Rabiee, Mohammadreza Khalesi · 2026
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Sara Esteghlal and three colleagues review covalent organic frameworks, designer crystals built wholly from light elements, as the next material for smart food packaging. These frameworks offer permanent pores, huge surface area, and tunable chemistry in a stable scaffold. Packaging made with them could block gases, kill microbes, and even sense spoilage as it happens.
The review weighs what the materials can do against what still blocks the supermarket shelf. Reported toxicity in early tests looks minimal, yet long-term safety studies remain thin, and questions about recycling and breakdown in the environment are open. Regulators will want those answers before approving food contact. The authors also spotlight AI tools as an accelerator, able to predict promising framework designs and guide cheaper synthesis. Their verdict: a truly promising platform whose safety homework is not yet done.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sara Esteghlal, Hossein Daneshgar, Navid Rabiee, Mohammadreza Khalesi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 121 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |