Rationale for Fat Replacers As a food component, fat contributes key sensory and physiological benefits. Fat contributes to flavor, or the combined perception of mouthfeel, taste, and aroma/odor (Ney, 1988). Fat also contributes to creaminess, appearance, palatability, texture, and lubricity of foods and increases the feeling of satiety during meals. Fat can also carry lipophilic flavor compoun...

The ability to replicate the load-bearing properties of articular cartilage is attractive for many engineering applications, particularly bearings where low friction, wear, and high durability are required. Hydrogels widely used materials spanning diverse applications owing their lubricity unique mechanical/chemical properties. poor mechanical characteristics conventional hydrogels, especially ...

Structural lubricity, characterized by nearly frictionless behavior at solid incommensurate interfaces with weak interactions, holds significant technological importance. However, various factors can lead to the breakdown of structural such as spontaneous reorientation a commensurate state, applied load, edge effects, deformations, and wear. To overcome these challenges, clusters be employed in...

Hydraulic oils differ in their chemical composition and viscosity substantially. Their influence on the wear of rod seals is neither fully understood nor can be predicted precisely. The primary objective this study was to evaluate various wetting properties seals. In an empirical study, 30 commercially available polyurethane U-cups investigated with 15 different using a recently built test rig....