Scattering perspectives on nanostructural inhomogeneity in polymer network gels

S Seiffert - Progress in Polymer Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Scattering methods based on spatial and temporal contrast fluctuations in polymer-network
gels, which originate from polymer-segmental density fluctuations, reveal rich insight into …

Soft condensed matter physics of foods and macronutrients

S Assenza, R Mezzenga - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Understanding food properties is paramount for enhancing features such as appearance,
taste and texture, for improving health-related factors such as minimizing the onset of …

Effect of NaCl and CaCl2 concentration on the rheological and structural characteristics of thermally-induced quinoa protein gels

Z Yang, L de Campo, EP Gilbert, R Knott, L Cheng… - Food …, 2022 - Elsevier
The effect of ionic strength on the heat-induced gelation of quinoa protein isolates (QPI) at
pH 7 was investigated. The gelation behaviour and gel strength were characterised by …

Gum Arabic in solution: Composition and multi-scale structures

M Atgié, JC Garrigues, A Chennevière, O Masbernat… - Food …, 2019 - Elsevier
Gum Arabic is a natural acacia tree exudate containing hyperbranched polysaccharides and
proteins. Here, we perform a dual chromatographic separation together with small-angle X …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of thermosonication at neutral pH on the structural characteristics of faba bean protein isolate dispersions and their physicochemical and techno …

Y Hu, L Cheng, EP Gilbert, SJ Lee, Z Yang - Food Hydrocolloids, 2024 - Elsevier
The effect of thermosonication (TS)(90° C, 10–30 min) on faba bean protein isolate (FPI) at
pH 7 was investigated. The microstructural and techno-functional properties of TS-treated …

Characterization of the volume fraction of soft deformable microgels by means of small-angle neutron scattering with contrast variation

A Scotti - Soft Matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The volume occupied by colloids in a suspension–namely the volume fraction–is the
thermodynamic variable that determines the phase behavior of these systems. While for …

Soft-matter approaches for controlling food protein interactions and assembly

A Boire, D Renard, A Bouchoux… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Animal-and plant-based proteins are present in a wide variety of raw and processed foods.
They play an important role in determining the final structure of food matrices. Food proteins …

Tailoring the viscoelasticity of polymer gels of gluten proteins through solvent quality

S Costanzo, A Banc, A Louhichi, E Chauveau… - …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We investigate the linear viscoelasticity of polymer gels produced by the dispersion of gluten
proteins in water/ethanol binary mixtures with various ethanol contents, from pure water to …

Insight into gluten structure in a mild chaotropic solvent by asymmetrical flow field-flow fractionation (AsFlFFF) and evidence of non-covalent assemblies between …

MH Morel, J Pincemaille, E Chauveau, A Louhichi… - Food …, 2020 - Elsevier
Wheat gluten, one of the most complex viscoelastic protein networks in nature, is unique to
get the specific texture of bread. Due to its complex protein composition, its insolubility in …

The production of matchout-deuterated cholesterol and the study of bilayer-cholesterol interactions

S Waldie, M Moulin, L Porcar, H Pichler… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The deuteration of biomolecules provides advanced opportunities for neutron scattering
studies. For low resolution studies using techniques such as small-angle neutron scattering …