A review of recent advances in tribology

Y Meng, J Xu, Z Jin, B Prakash, Y Hu - Friction, 2020 - Springer
The reach of tribology has expanded in diverse fields and tribology related research
activities have seen immense growth during the last decade. This review takes stock of the …

Design principles of food gels

Y Cao, R Mezzenga - Nature Food, 2020 - nature.com
Naturally sourced gels from food biopolymers have advanced in recent decades to compare
favourably in performance and breadth of application to their synthetic counterparts. Here …

Transforming sustainable plant proteins into high performance lubricating microgels

B Kew, M Holmes, E Liamas, R Ettelaie… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
With the resource-intensive meat industry accounting for over 50% of food-linked emissions,
plant protein consumption is an inevitable need of the hour. Despite its significance, the key …

Ball‐bearing‐inspired polyampholyte‐modified microspheres as bio‐lubricants attenuate osteoarthritis

J Yang, Y Han, J Lin, Y Zhu, F Wang, L Deng, H Zhang… - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Osteoarthritis, a lubrication dysfunction related disorder in joint, is characterized by articular
cartilage degradation and joint capsule inflammation. Enhancing joint lubrication, combined …

Engineering emulsion gels as functional colloids emphasizing food applications: A review

Abdullah, L Liu, HU Javed, J Xiao - Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Gels are functional materials with well-defined structures (three-dimensional networks)
assembled from the dispersed colloids, and capable of containing a large amount of water …

Oral tribology: Providing insight into oral processing of food colloids

A Sarkar, S Soltanahmadi, J Chen, JR Stokes - Food Hydrocolloids, 2021 - Elsevier
Food oral processing research has attracted a great deal of attention in the last few decades
owing to its paramount importance in governing sensory appreciation and pleasurable …

Colloidal aspects of digestion of Pickering emulsions: Experiments and theoretical models of lipid digestion kinetics

A Sarkar, S Zhang, M Holmes, R Ettelaie - Advances in Colloid and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Lipid digestion is a bio-interfacial process that is largely governed by the binding of the
lipase-colipase-biosurfactant (bile salts) complex onto the surface of emulsified lipid …

Polysaccharide-based colloids as fat replacers in reduced-fat foods

J Wang, M Shang, X Li, S Sang, DJ McClements… - Trends in Food Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Excessive intake of fat was a risk factor for chronic diseases like obesity,
diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. However, removing fat from foods was challenging …

[HTML][HTML] Lubrication of soft oral surfaces

A Sarkar, E Andablo-Reyes, M Bryant… - Current Opinion in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Oral lubrication deals with one of the most intricate examples of biotribology, where surfaces
under sliding conditions span from the hardest enamel to soft oral tissues in human …

Human oral processing and texture profile analysis parameters: Bridging the gap between the sensory evaluation and the instrumental measurements

K Nishinari, Y Fang, A Rosenthal - Journal of Texture Studies, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Studies in food oral processing are becoming increasingly important with the advent of the
aged society. The food oral processing model of Hutchings and Lillford (Journal of Texture …