Food colloids : self-assembly and material science /

Food structure at the molecular level and how it impacts on health, taste, texture and shelf life is becoming an increasingly important area of science. Food Colloids: Self-Assembly and Material Science describes new developments in the theory and practice of the formulation of food emulsions, dispe...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Dickinson, Eric, Leser, Martin E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK : RSC Pub., [2007]
Series:Special publication (Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain)) ; no. 308.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Food structure for nutrition
  • Self-assembly in food : a new way to make nutritious products
  • Structure of self-assembled globular proteins
  • Similarities in self-assembly of proteins and surfactants : an attempt to bridge the gap
  • Self-assembled liquid particles : how to modulate their internal structure
  • Synergistic solubilization of mixed nutraceuticals in modified discontinuous micellar cubic structures
  • Scope and limitations of using wax to encapsulate water-soluble compounds
  • Self-assembly of starch spherulites as induced by inclusion complexation with small ligands
  • Electrostatics in macromolecular solutions
  • Casein interactions : does the chemistry really matter?
  • Electrostatic interactions between lactoferrin and [beta]-lactoglobulin in oil-in-water emulsions
  • [Beta]-lactoglobulin aggregates from heating with charged cosolutes : formation, characterization and foaming
  • Manipulation of adsorption behaviour at liquid interfaces by changing protein-polysaccharide electrostatic interactions
  • Adsorption experiments from mixed protein + surfactant solutions
  • Role of electrostatic interactions on molecular self-assembly of protein + phospholipid films at the air-water interface
  • Theoretical study of phase transition behaviour in mixed biopolymer + surfactant interfacial layers using the self-consistent-field approach
  • Interactions during the acidification of native and heated milks studied by diffusing wave spectroscopy
  • Computer simulation of the pre-heating, gelation, and rheology of acid skim milk systems
  • Xanthan gum in skim milk: designing structure into acid milk gels
  • Particle tracking as a probe of microrheology in food colloids
  • Optical microrheology of gelling biopolymer solutions based on diffusing wave spectroscopy
  • Gel and glass transitions in short-range attractive colloidal systems
  • Shape and interfacial viscoelastic response of emulsion droplets in shear flow
  • Enhancement of stability of bubbles to disproportionation using hydrophilic silica particles mixed with surfactants or proteins
  • Coalescence of expanding bubbles : effects of protein type and included oil droplets
  • Role of protein-stabilized interfaces on the microstructure and rheology of oil-in-water emulsions
  • Crystallization in monodisperse emulsions with particles in size range 20-200 nm
  • Instant emulsions
  • Flavour binding by solid and liquid emulsion droplets
  • Adsorption of macromolecules at oil-water interfaces during emulsification
  • Tribology as a tool to study emulsion behaviour in the mouth
  • Saliva-induced emulsion flocculation : role of droplet charge
  • Surface topography of heat-set whey protein gels : effects of added salt and xanthan gum
  • Mechanisms determining crispness and its retention in foods with a dry crust.