The global demand for safe and healthy food with minimal synthetic preservatives is
continuously increasing. Natural food antimicrobials and especially essential oils (EOs) …

Highlights•The techniques of encapsulation applied to milk proteins were discussed.•The
main encapsulated bioactive substances were reviewed.•The potentialities of self …

Recently, a great interest has been paid to the development of hybrid protein-inorganic
nanoparticles (NPs) for drug delivery and cancer diagnostics in order to combine the merits …

For the first time, cellulase was successfully immobilized on a magnetic core-shell metal-
organic framework (MOF) material, UIO-66-NH 2. The as-prepared immobilized cellulase …

Surface properties, as well as inherent physicochemical properties, of the engineered
nanomaterials play important roles in their interactions with the biological systems, which …

Natural protein-based nanoparticles are promising nano-vehicles for the delivery of
chemotherapeutic drugs. Caseinate nanoparticles loaded with doxorubicin (CasNPs-DOX) …

Lawsone,(2-hydroxy-1, 4-naphthoquinone or HNQ), is known for its antimicrobial activity,
corrosion inhibition and metal chelation properties. We describe here a simple methodology …

Pre-gelation of whey protein isolates (WPI), a milk protein, has been performed before spray
drying to decrease the solubility of WPI. The heat-induced pre-gelation at 80° C aims to …

Super paramagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) have proved that they have
tremendous potential to use in various biomedical applications. But the surface of pure iron …

Engineered nanoparticles that can facilitate drug formulation and passively target tumours
have been under extensive research in recent years. These successes have driven a new …