Electrospun essential oil-doped chitosan/poly(ε-caprolactone) hybrid nanofibrous mats for antimicrobial food biopackaging exploits.

Development of antimicrobial electrospun nanofibrous mats is one of the most recent trends in the field of food biopackaging. Herein, novel antimicrobial fibrous mats consisting of blend electrospun chitosan (CS)/poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) embedded with oregano essential oil (OEO) were fabricated via electrospinning approach and investigated. FE-SEM manifested that as-spun fibers were well-oriented with uniform diameters along their lengths, and AFM displayed the dense nature of the fibrous mats, with surface roughness in the range of 62.