[HTML][HTML] Techniques for characterizing mechanical properties of soft tissues

K Navindaran, JS Kang, K Moon - Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The characterization of soft tissues remains a vital need for various bioengineering and
medical fields. Developing areas such as regenerative medicine, robot-aided surgery, and …

Multiscale modeling of food thermal processing for insight, comprehension, and utilization of heat and mass transfer: A state-of-the-art review

J Li, Y Deng, W Xu, R Zhao, T Chen, M Wang… - Trends in Food Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Food materials have typical heterogeneity of microstructure and physical
properties, which brings difficulty in accurately determining the variable heat and mass …

Building block properties govern granular hydrogel mechanics through contact deformations

DB Emiroglu, A Bekcic, D Dranseike, X Zhang… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Granular hydrogels have been increasingly exploited in biomedical applications, including
wound healing and cardiac repair. Despite their utility, design guidelines for engineering …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in determining the cellular-level property evolutions of plant-based food materials during drying

VTW Thuppahige, ZG Welsh, M Joardder… - Trends in Food Science & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Determination of the changes in cellular-level structural, mechanical,
rheological and transport properties during the processing of plant-based food materials …

Physicochemical, structural and nanomechanical study elucidating the differences in firmness among four apple cultivars

LE Rojas-Candelas, JJ Chanona-Pérez… - Postharvest Biology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
A study of the physicochemical, structural, nanomechanical properties at macro, micro and
nanometric scales was carried out to determine which features have the greatest influence …

Plant-Based: A Perspective on Nutritional and Technological Issues. Are We Ready for “Precision Processing”?

R Menta, G Rosso, F Canzoneri - Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The rapid evolution of consumers' preference despite being still rooted in taste is rapidly
combining with an exponential growth of environmental awareness. Both are forcing …

Nanosensors for water quality control

AM Graboski, J Martinazzo, SC Ballen… - Nanotechnology in the …, 2020 - Elsevier
Industrialization and urbanization increased the number of contaminants in water bodies,
compromising the water quality. Devices such as nanosensors have emerged as an …

Elasticity spectra as a tool to investigate actin cortex mechanics

I Lüchtefeld, A Bartolozzi, J Mejía Morales… - Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Background The mechanical properties of single living cells have proven to be a powerful
marker of the cell physiological state. The use of nanoindentation-based single cell force …

Probing maltodextrins surface properties by atomic force microscopy: Interplay of glass transition and reconstitution properties

R Badin, J Burgain, S Desobry, B Bhandari… - Food …, 2022 - Elsevier
Reconstitution kinetics of three maltodextrins powders with different dextrose-equivalent
(DE) values (low, intermediate, high DE) were evaluated under the glassy and rubbery …

Characterisation of mechanical properties of food materials during drying using nanoindentation

MIH Khan, N Patel, M Mahiuddin, MA Karim - Journal of Food Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The microstructure of plant-based food materials (PBFM) is mostly composed of assemblies
of irregular cellular compartments. Dynamically changing mechanical properties play a vital …