A new study on "Tribology and rheology of potato protein and pectin mixtures and Maillard conjugates" has been published in Sustainable Food Proteins by Mingxin Wang (PhD Student), Dr. Siavash Soltanahmadi (Postdoctoral Fellow, ERC Project LubSat), Dr. Khalid Gul (Visiting Researcher) and Dr. Ecaterina Stribiţcaia (ex-PhD Student, ERC LubSat Project). Thsi study demonstrates how Maillard conjugation, with...
Welcome Yangyi Zheng to Sarkar Lab. Yanyi is a PhD student supervised by Dr. Evi Paximada and co-supervised by Prof. Anwesha Sarkar. His PhD research focuses on using novel techniques to improve the nutritional and techno-functional properties of plant proteins, specifically legume proteins. He is particularly interested in extraction processes of plant proteins that tend...
Chenxi Wang has started as a PhD Student funded by Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) in Sarkar Lab. Chenxi did her Bachelors and Masters from Jiangnan University (China) majoring in Food Science and Engineering and has published research in the area of starches and emulsions. In her PhD, she will be co-supervised by Prof. Brent S....
Daisy Akgönüllü (PhD Student, SOFI2 CDT) from our lab has written an excellent review titled "Synthetic and biopolymeric microgels: Review of similarities and difference in behaviour in bulk phases and at interfaces" now published in Advances in Colloids and Interface Science, Volume 320, Articles no. 102983. In this comprehensive review, Daisy in collaboration with co-authors...
Alice Burberry has joined the team as a research assistant. The aim of her project PlantFeel is to design colloidal materials to enhance the mouthfeel of plant-based foods by improving their usually poor lubrication performance and mouthfeel. Specifically, as a part of this IAA funded Project PlantFeel, she will design and characterize a range of...
The new work of Ben Kew (PhD Student, ERC LubSat Project) titled "Transforming sustainable plant proteins into high performance lubricating microgels" published in Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40414-7 is covered in Economic Times. Plant proteins, which start off as dry with a rough texture, are placed in water and subjected to heating. This alters the structure of...
Ben Kew (PhD Student, ERC LubSat Project) presented an oral prestation titled "Astringency response of plant proteins: Combining sensory, neural and cellular methodology" at the 15th Pangborn Sensory Science Symposium: Meeting new challenges in a changing world, Nantes, Frances (20th-24th Aug, 2023), latter was attended by over 1,100 delegates. Published work of Ben related...
Oleosomes, also known as oil bodies, are micron-sized, micelle-like organelles engineered by nature that serve as intracellular lipid storage structures. In this work published in Food Chemistry, Dr. Hasan H. Kara (Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, TUBITAK) together with Dr. Andrea Araiza-Calahorra (Postdoctoral Fellow, UKRI Horizon Europe Guarantee Funded MicroLub Project) demonstrate that oleosomes extracted from flaxseeds...
Ben Kew (PhD Sudent, ERC LubSat Project) publishes his latest work titled "Transforming sustainable plant proteins into high performance lubricating microgels" in Nature Communications. In this work combining experimental and theoretical work, Ben neatly demonstrates for the first time that by transforming plant proteins into physically cross-linked microgels, it is possible to improve their lubricity remarkably, dependent...
Elizabeth Tenorio Garcia (PhD Student, Conacyt) publishes a paper titled "Pickering Water-in-Oil Emulsions Stabilized Solely by Fat Crystals" in Advanced Materials and Interfaces. This work done by Elizabeth in collaboration with Dr. Andrea Araiza-Calahorra (Postdoctoral Reserach Fellow, UKRI Horizon Europe Guarantee Fund MicroLub Project) and other co-authors shows via a combination of small- and wide-angle...
