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Mucin immobilization in calcium alginate: A possible mucus mimetic tool for evaluating mucoadhesion and retention of flavour (2019)
Journal Article

To reduce animal testing, there is a need to develop novel in-vitro models for evaluating the retention of bioactive compounds in food and pharmaceutical products. Here, a mucus-mimetic platform was developed through a one-step approach based on enca... Read More about Mucin immobilization in calcium alginate: A possible mucus mimetic tool for evaluating mucoadhesion and retention of flavour.

Enabling the Rational Design of Low-Fat Snack Foods: Insights from In Vitro Oral Processing (2019)
Journal Article

Texture perception can be conceptualized as an emergent cognitive response to several of the physical and chemical properties of a food. Contemporary oral processing research is focused on revealing the relationships between the sensory perceptions a... Read More about Enabling the Rational Design of Low-Fat Snack Foods: Insights from In Vitro Oral Processing.

Lubrication by biomacromolecules: mechanisms and biomimetic strategies (2019)
Journal Article

Biomacromolecules play a key role in protecting human biointerfaces from friction and wear, and thus enable painless motion. Biomacromolecules give rise to remarkable tribological properties that researchers have been eager to emulate. In this review... Read More about Lubrication by biomacromolecules: mechanisms and biomimetic strategies.

The role of saliva in oral processing: Reconsidering the breakdown path paradigm (2019)
Journal Article

We discuss food oral processing research over the last two decades and consider strategies for quantifying the food breakdown model, originally conceptualised by Hutchings and Lillford . The key innovation in their seminal 1988 paper was shifting t... Read More about The role of saliva in oral processing: Reconsidering the breakdown path paradigm.

Responsive polysaccharide-grafted surfaces for biotribological applications (2019)
Journal Article

The elucidation of biolubrication mechanisms and the design of artificial biotribological contacts requires the development of model surfaces that can help to tease out the cues that govern friction in biological systems. Polysaccharides provide an i... Read More about Responsive polysaccharide-grafted surfaces for biotribological applications.