Polymer nanocomposite technology holds the key to future advances in flexible, intelligent, and
active packaging. Once production and material costs decrease, companies will be able to use
this technology to increase their products’ stability and survivability through the supply chain to
deliver higher quality to their customers while reducing costs (Mohan 2005). However, further
work is required in the development of more compatible filler-polymer systems, better
processing technologies, and a systems approach to the design of polymer-plasticizer-fillers
(Magnuson, Jonaitis, and Card 2011).