This study was to investigate the impact of granule size, amylose content, and starch molecular characteristics on pasting and rheological properties of starch paste/gels in neutral (water) and sugar–acid systems. Normal rice starch (RS), waxy...
Gliadin nanoparticle (GNP) is a promising foaming agent, but its application is hindered by the limited foam stability under low acidic conditions. Herein, we attempted to tune the foam stability of GNP by coating it with flaxseed gum (FG) and invest...
High-moisture extrusion (HME) is an effective process to make fibrous products that can be used as meat analogues. In this study, the effect of extrusion of already extruded products (i.e., re-extrusion) was tested with the aim to explore the potenti...
Background/Objectives: Bimanual movements with a 90° relative phase are typically unstable but can be facilitated by Lissajous visual feedback, which integrates the movements of the two hands into a single visual representation. We examined wheth...
We propose a nanometer-scale displacement or vibration measurement system, using an optical quadrature interferometer and the post-processing technique that extracts the parameters necessary for characterizing the interferometric system. Using a 3 &t...
Direct Ink Writing (DIW) is an advanced additive manufacturing 3D-printing technique with significant potential for producing hydrogels in biomedical and engineering applications. This study presents a comprehensive rheological analysis of the yieldi...
Despite decades of research, the nonlinear mechanics of agar remains poorly understood. In this work, we analyze the mechanical response of soft, hard, and very hard agar hydrogels under nonlinear shear deformation. Low-shear viscoelastic behavior ac...
(1) Background: Together with treatment protocols, viscoelastic tests are widely used for patient care. Measuring at broader ranges of deformation than currently done will add information on a clot’s mechanical phenotype because fibrin networks follo...
This work studied the impact of three types of styrene-butadiene (SB and SBS) block copolymers on the morphology, electrical, and rheological properties of immiscible blends of polypropylene:polystyrene (PP:PS)/multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) w...
The present study evaluates a surface dielectric barrier discharge (SDBD) plasma system utilizing porous metal electrodes to enhance the performance of non-thermal plasma (NTP)-based water treatment. A custom high-voltage, variable-frequency power dr...