New approaches to rapid examination of proteins and peptides in complex food matrices are of great interest to the community of food scientists. The aim of the study is to examine the influence of microwave irradiation on the acceleration of enzymatic cleavage and enzymatic digestion of denatured proteins in cooked meat of five species (cattle, horse, pig, chicken and turkey) and processed meat...

The flavour and colour of a food product have significant impacts on consumer acceptability. Two of the challenges with microwave food products are that it is often difficult to achieve the desired flavour that matches products prepared in a conventional oven or by frying and to get the browning that the consumer expects. There are reactions that occur in those processes that do not occur when ...

In this paper, the proof of principle of microwave-accelerated aggregation assay technology, which shortens the solution-based aggregation assays' run time to seconds (>100-fold increase in kinetics) with microwave heating, was demonstrated using a model aggregation assay based on the well-known interactions of biotin and avidin. Biotinylated gold colloids were aggregated in solution with the a...

We have performed equilibrium and nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations to study how microwave (MW)-heated zeolite systems relax to thermal equilibrium. We have simulated the relaxation of both ionic and dipolar phases in FAU-type zeolites, finding biexponential relaxation in all cases studied. Fast-decay times were uniformly below 1 ps, while slow-decay times were found to be as long a...

Conventional flash sintering is difficult to adapt ceramics with a very low electrical conductivity like pure alumina. Alternatively, the latter can be heated by microwave/matter interaction due dielectric losses. Microwave energy also preferable as it allows rapid contactless and volumetric heating that initiated susceptors. This work presents assembly designed for this purpose using 2.45 GHz ...

We report numerical simulation of gas temperature of microwave discharge plasma of rare gases by weighted-DSMC method. Our numerical simulation showed that neutral particles are heated by collisions with ions. It is found that the average temperature becomes higher for heavier rare gas discharge plasmas, which agrees with our previous experiments. It is also found that ions are accelerated by a...

this paper is a report on the synthesis of the fe3o4@ag core-shell with high saturation magnetization of magnetite nanoparticles as the core, by using polyol route and silver shell by chemical reduction. x-ray diffraction (xrd) and fourier transform infrared spectroscopy analyses confirmed that the particles so produced were monophase. the magnetic properties of the product were investigated by...

good dispersion of nano-particles in polymer matrices is a crucial parameter in determining the final properties of polymer nanocomposites. in this work, the distributions of cloisite 30b, cloisite 10a and cloisite 93a in ptmeg, popular polyols in the polyurethane manufacturing, were investigated in the nano, micro and macro scales. this investigation was carried out using x-ray diffraction, rh...