Foods make up some of the most complex examples of soft condensed matter (SCM) with
which we interact daily. Their complexity arises from several factors: the intricacy of …

One of the present challenges of the food industry is to deliver nutrition and health benefits
to the consumer while keeping, or improving the taste and aroma impact. Adding active …

In the last decades, large-scale agricultural operations and food industries have increased.
These operations generate numerous types of odors. The reduction of land areas available …

Lipid-based liquid crystalline materials have been proposed as controlled drug delivery
systems. Differences in liquid crystal nanostructure have previously been shown to change …

Monoglyceride molecules spontaneously self-assemble into various liquid crystalline
structures when present in an aqueous environment. The various phases can be used to …

Aqueous submicron-sized dispersions of the binary monolinolein/water system, which are
stabilized by means of a polymer, internally possess a distinct nanostructure. Taking this as …

Self-assembled nanostructures, such as inverted type mesophases of the cubic or
hexagonal geometry or reverse microemulsion phases, can be dispersed using a polymeric …

Microemulsions are useful as reaction media to overcome the reagent incompatibility that
one frequently encounters in organic synthesis. In this respect microemulsions can be …

A large number of surfactants (surface active molecules) are chemically simple compounds
that can be obtained by simple chemical reactions, in some cases even under presumably …

In recent studies we have found unique mixtures of food-grade oils, two or more food-grade
nonionic hydrophilic emulsifiers, cosolvent (polyol), and coemulsifiers that self-assemble to …