Respiratory aerosols and droplets in the transmission of infectious diseases

ML Pöhlker, C Pöhlker, OO Krüger, JD Förster… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
Knowing the physicochemical properties of exhaled droplets and aerosol particles is a
prerequisite for a detailed mechanistic understanding and effective prevention of the …

Electrochemical sensing of analytes in saliva: Challenges, progress, and perspectives

AG Cardoso, H Viltres, GA Ortega, V Phung… - TrAC Trends in …, 2023 - Elsevier
The detection of analytes in human saliva is an important task for real-life sensing device
applications, as well as a challenging issue due to its high viscosity and the presence of …

[HTML][HTML] Insights into the evaporation characteristics of saliva droplets and aerosols: levitation experiments and numerical modeling

C Lieber, S Melekidis, R Koch, HJ Bauer - Journal of aerosol science, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding the transmission phenomena of SARS-CoV-2 by virus-laden droplets and
aerosols is of paramount importance for controlling the current COVID-19 pandemic …

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 …

Food hydrocolloids: Application as functional ingredients to control lipid digestion and bioavailability

DJ McClements - Food Hydrocolloids, 2021 - Elsevier
One of the most popular research areas in food hydrocolloids over the past decade or so
has been their application as functional ingredients to modulate the gastrointestinal fate of …

[HTML][HTML] Developments in diagnostic applications of saliva in human organ diseases

Y Cui, M Yang, J Zhu, H Zhang, Z Duan, S Wang… - Medicine in Novel …, 2022 - Elsevier
Saliva is one of the important body fluids that reflects normal internal characteristics and
disease state of an individual. As a multi-composition oral fluid, has high potential for the …

Insights into the multiscale lubrication mechanism of edible phase change materials

S Soltanahmadi, M Bryant, A Sarkar - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Investigation of a lubrication behavior of phase change materials (PCM) can be challenging
in applications involving relative motion, eg, sport (ice skating), food (chocolates), energy …

Advances in static in vitro digestion models after the COST action Infogest consensus protocol

R Colombo, L Ferron, I Frosi, A Papetti - Food & function, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In vitro digestion models are essential to predictively evaluate the bioaccessibility and
bioactivity of food molecules or natural products. Dynamic models better simulate the …

The role of mucosal barriers in disease progression and transmission

NA Bustos, K Ribbeck, CE Wagner - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Mucus is a biological hydrogel that coats and protects all non-keratinized wet epithelial
surfaces. Mucins, the primary structural components of mucus, are critical components of the …

The lubricated matter in body

H Yuan, W Cui - Progress in Materials Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Lubrication is everywhere in the body and essential for the correct operation of biological
systems when subjected to contact stress and wear. The body is like a continuously …