Previous results on apple tissue equilibration during osmotic dehydration showed that, at very long processing times, the solute concentrations of the fruit liquid phase and the osmotic solution were the same. In the present study, changes in apple liquid phase composition throughout equilibrium in osmotic dehydration were analyzed and modeled. Results showed that, by the time osmosed samples r...

Angstrom-scale fluidic channels are ubiquitous in nature and play an important role regulating cellular traffic, signaling, responding to stimuli. Synthetic angstrom now a reality with the emergence of several cutting-edge bottom-up top-down fabrication methods. In particular, use atomically thin 2D materials nanotubes as components build conduits has pushed limits scale. Here, we provide overv...

this research was carried out in order to investigate on the effects of packaging type and storage temperature on qualitative and quantitative characteristics of dried melon. “thashkandi” and ‘ khatoni” melon varieties؛ osmotic solutions of 0% and 10% sucrose and cabinet dryer were applied for dried melon production. dried fruits were packed with modified atmosphere (pe-pa film, 85 micron thick...

Although it is recognized that red cells lose membrane during storage, estimation of the osmotic fragility of erythrocytes has not previously proven to be a useful measurement of the storage lesion. Erythrocytes from blood stored in CPD-A2 were found to have a markedly increased osmotic fragility. A major portion of this increase was found to be due to accumulation of lactate, which is only slo...

Received: 15/11/2013 Revised: 13/12/2013 Accepted: 16/12/2013 Abstract Osmotic dehydration is a process of water removal by immersion of water containing cellular solids in a concentrated aqueous solution of sugar/ salt. This results in intermediate moisture product with lower water activity. At low water activity, most of the chemical reactions which deteriorate the food as well as the growth ...

present study was conducted to investigate the effects of different osmotic potentials (0.0 mpa, -0.4 mpa, -0.8 mpa and -1.2mpa) induced by nacl and polyethylene glycol-6000(peg) as salinity and drought stress respectively on germination and early growth of two inbred lines of maize (mo17 and b73). the objective was to compare the germination ability between tow maize inbred lines in salt and d...

salinity affects plant growth by the osmotic stress of salt around the roots as well as by toxicity caused by excessive accumulation of salt in leaves. the study of photosynthetic traits as a rapid and non-destructive tool demonstrates the great potential for improving plant productivity and stress tolerance. a pot experiment was carried out to investigate short-term effects of osmotic stress (...