https://blogs.3ds.com/biovia/eco-packaging/

In this short blog post, @JW, product manager for BIOVIA Materials Studio, discusses the transformation that is underway to find sustainable alternatives to single use plastics. Packaging applications need to meet stringent performance criteria for penetration of water, oxygen, CO2 and other gases. They also need to be suitable for manufacturing processes such as extrusion and have well understood pathways for degradation and reformatting.

Fortunately, the information at molecular scales can help predict materials properties and to construct complex chemical transformation mechanisms.

James also discusses how to use both BIOVIA COSMOtherm and BIOVIA Materials Studio to

• Find green solvents for the dissolution of cellulose.
• Understand the thermally and chemically activated degradation products of new polymer materials.

Happy reading!