Title :
Review on nanotechnology in agricultural products logistics management
Author :
Bowles, M. ; Jianjun Lu
Author_Institution :
Australian Maritime Coll., Univ. of Tasmania, Launceston, TAS, Australia
Abstract :
This paper reviews the recent application of nanotechnology in agricultural products logistics from packaging, storage and delivery, tracking and tracing, safety, respectively. This paper specifically describes the potential applications of nanotechnology in the agricultural products logistics, the benefits of nanotechnology to the agricultural products logistics management, as well as the potential problems that in the process of nanotechnology applications in the agricultural products logistics.
Keywords :
agricultural products; agricultural safety; goods distribution; logistics; nanotechnology; packaging; storage; agricultural product; logistics management; nanotechnology application; product delivery; product packaging; product safety; product storage; product tracing; product tracking; Heating; Nanostructured materials; Safety; agri-food Logistics; nanocomposites agricultural products Logistics; nanosensors; nanotechnology;
Conference_Titel :
Computing and Networking Technology (ICCNT), 2012 8th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Gueongju
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1326-1