Bread crumb firming is largely determined by the properties of gluten and starch, and the transformations they undergo during bread making and storage. Amylose (AM) and amylopectin (AP) functionality in fresh and stored bread was investigated with NMR relaxometry. Bread was prepared from flours containing normal and atypical starches, e.g., flour f...
Herein, a novel method for the adsorption of metal ions from sewage by NaP zeolite adsorbent synthesized from stage-treated coal fly ash (CFA) was proposed. The pre-treatment of CFA and grading extraction of silicon and aluminum were explored, and the effects of crystallization parameters and sodium salts on the yield and purity of NaP zeolites wer...
Herein, a novel method for the adsorption of metal ions from sewage by NaP zeolite adsorbent synthesized from stage-treated coal fly ash (CFA) was proposed. The pre-treatment of CFA and grading extraction of silicon and aluminum were explored, and the effects of crystallization parameters and sodium salts on the yield and purity of NaP zeolites wer...
The preparation of solar grade silicon (Si) is popularly carried out in silica (SiO2) crucible containing porous alpha-Si3N4 coating, in which poorly wetting SiO(2 )film around alpha-Si3N4 particles act as barrier for Si infiltration. The present investigation studies the influence of oxygen (O) content in coating on wettability and infiltration fo...
The preparation of solar grade silicon (Si) is popularly carried out in silica (SiO2) crucible containing porous alpha-Si3N4 coating, in which poorly wetting SiO(2 )film around alpha-Si3N4 particles act as barrier for Si infiltration. The present investigation studies the influence of oxygen (O) content in coating on wettability and infiltration fo...
The solvent‐dependent polymorphism of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) carbamazepine is interpreted from calculations of the solid‐state and API‐solvent intermolecular interactions. These simulations suggested that apolar solute‐solute interactions could be disrupted by apolar solvents. In contrast, the polar solute‐solute interactions we...
N-(4-Nitrobenzoyl)-Phe self-assembled into a transparent supramolecular hydrogel, which displayed high fibroblast and keratinocyte cell viability. The compound showed a mild antimicrobial activity against E. coli both as a hydrogel and in solution. Single-crystal XRD data revealed packing details, including protonation of the C-terminus due to an a...
Methods generating fusion proteins with rigid and predictable structures have been developed in recent years. Among them, helix fusion methods that link two proteins by connecting their terminal alpha helices into a single and extended alpha helix can be particularly useful because designing fusion helices is conceptually and technically simple. Th...
Yttrium aluminate glass microspheres with the eutectic composition 76.8 mol. % Al2O3 and 23.2 mol. % Y2O3 were prepared by combining the sol-gel Pechini method with flame synthesis. The sol-gel method was applied to achieve the desired composition homogeneity of the prepared glass and hence, improve the microstructure homogeneity and mechanical pro...
Water‐in‐oil‐in‐water (W/O/W) double emulsions present a reduced‐fat alternative to conventional O/W food emulsions, as part of the dispersed oil phase is replaced with water. In this study, the concept of a reduced‐fat whipped topping produced by W/O/W technology was proven. Whipping of a W/O/W emulsion, containing only 20% oil phase and a solid f...
