New Trends in the Structure Characterization of Food

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is dedicated to the compilation of research and recent advances in the analysis of the macro, micro and nanostructural arrangement of food and the relationship with its physicochemical, functional, rheological, nutritional, mechanical and thermal properties, with topics on new food materials and emerging technologies (e.g., ultrasound, microwave and infrared) for the extraction of nutrients and components (biopolymers and secondary metabolites) and their impact on the structure of food able to be presented. All studies should include analyses such as spectroscopy—Raman, IR, X-ray diffraction (XRD)—and microscopy techniques—light microscopy (LM), confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM), or super-resolution microscopy such as saturated structured illumination microscopy (SSIM), stimulated emission depletion microscopy (STED), photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM), fluorescence photoactivation localization microscopy (FPALM), and stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM)—, as well as image analyses, among others. Researchers are invited to submit original papers or reviews.

Dr. María de Jesús Perea-Flores
Dr. Ma. de la Paz Salgado-Cruz
Dr. Francisco Erik González-Jiménez
Guest Editors

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