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  • Article
  • Open Access
1,212 Views
19 Pages

Application of a Pickering Emulsion Stabilized by Zein and Cellulose Nanocrystalline Composite Particles to Preserve Kiwifruit

  • Yiping Liu,
  • Weixiang Qiu,
  • Yalan Mo,
  • Jing Tian,
  • Muxiang Liao,
  • Binghong Jia,
  • Qian Zhou,
  • Feichi Liu and
  • Xiaogang Li

24 August 2025

This study involved developing a Pickering emulsion system based on a composite material comprising zein colloidal particles (ZCPs) and cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) with the aim of exploring its potential application in fruit preservation by loading...

  • Review
  • Open Access
274 Citations
18,497 Views
33 Pages

Recent Advances in Food-Packing, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Applications of Zein and Zein-Based Materials

  • Elisângela Corradini,
  • Priscila S. Curti,
  • Adriano B. Meniqueti,
  • Alessandro F. Martins,
  • Adley F. Rubira and
  • Edvani Curti Muniz

4 December 2014

Zein is a biodegradable and biocompatible material extracted from renewable resources; it comprises almost 80% of the whole protein content in corn. This review highlights and describes some zein and zein-based materials, focusing on biomedical appli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,321 Views
16 Pages

21 November 2023

This study aims to fabricate zein-based colloidal nanoparticles, which were used to stabilize Pickering emulsions, by conjugation with soybean polysaccharide (SSPS) through the Maillard reaction. The physicochemical properties of the conjugated parti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,204 Views
19 Pages

13 October 2021

In this work, soluble soybean polysaccharides (SSPS) were employed together with multifrequency ultrasound to fabricate zein nanocomposites which were conducive to enhancing the stability of high internal phase emulsions (HIPEs). Compared with non-ul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,894 Views
17 Pages

Evaluation of Zein Nanoparticles as Delivery Agents of SARS-CoV-2 Antigens

  • Verónica Araceli Márquez-Escobar,
  • María José Alonso-Cerda,
  • Sergio Rosales-Mendoza and
  • María de Lourdes Betancourt-Mendiola

28 January 2025

Background/Objectives: Nanovaccines have significant potential to enhance immunization strategies by improving efficacy, safety, and cost-effectiveness. In particular, organic nanoparticles hold promise for the generation of low-cost nanovaccines obt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,099 Views
20 Pages

PEG Conjugated Zein Nanoparticles for In Vivo Use

  • Courtney van Ballegooie,
  • Nicole Wretham,
  • Tanya Ren,
  • Ioana-Mihaela Popescu,
  • Donald T. Yapp and
  • Marcel B. Bally

Zein can be utilized to form nanoscale particles for drug delivery applications. Despite the ease of synthesis, these particles often aggregate when exposed to physiologically relevant conditions (e.g., pH and salt concentrations). This instability h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,694 Views
16 Pages

Investigation and Characterization of Pickering Emulsion Stabilized by Alkali-Treated Zein (AZ)/Sodium Alginate (SA) Composite Particles

  • Ying Kuang,
  • Qinjian Xiao,
  • Yichen Yang,
  • Menglong Liu,
  • Xiaosa Wang,
  • Pengpeng Deng,
  • Kao Wu,
  • Yi Liu,
  • Bo Peng and
  • Fatang Jiang
  • + 1 author

17 April 2023

Pickering emulsions stabilized by food-grade colloidal particles have attracted increasing attention in recent years due to their “surfactant-free” nature. In this study, the alkali-treated zein (AZ) was prepared via restricted alkali dea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,571 Views
14 Pages

9 November 2019

In this study, we prepared complex nanoparticles from a combination of two proteins and one polysaccharide for the encapsulation and delivery of lipophilic bioactive compounds. Two proteins, zein and sodium caseinate (NaCas), provided a hydrophobic c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,118 Views
12 Pages

7 July 2021

(1) Background: COVID-19 has affected millions of people worldwide, but countries with high experimental anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccination rates among the general population respectively show progress in achieving general herd immunity in the population (a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,013 Views
17 Pages

This work aimed to enhance the purposing profile of Etodolac (ETD) in Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) HepG2 cells using sodium deoxycholate stabilized zein nanospheres (ETD-SDZN NSs). ETD-SDZN NSs were formulated using the nan-precipitation meth...