Modern Biopolymer Science
Bridging the Divide between Fundamental Treatise and Industrial Application

A guide to direct application of biopolymer science to real-world product situations

Stefan Kasapis (Edited by), Ian T. Norton (Edited by), Johan B Ubbink (Edited by)

9780123741950, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 11 September 2009

640 pages
23.4 x 19 x 3.5 cm, 1.45 kg

Industrialists developing new food and pharmaceutical products face the challenge of innovation in an increasingly competitive market that must consider incredient cost, product added-value, expectations of a healthy life-style, improved sensory impact, controlled delivery of active compounds and last, but not lease, product stability. While much work has been done to explore, understand, and address these issues, a gap has emerged between recent advances in fundamental knowledge and its direct application to product situations with a growing need for scientific input.

Modern Biopolymer Science matches science to application by first acknowledging the differing viewpoints between those working with low-solids and those working with high-solids, and then sharing the expertise of those two camps under a unified framework of materials science.

Low- and High-Solid Biopolymer/co-Solute Mixtures
Mapping the Different States of Food as a Function of Solids Content and Temperature Using a State Diagram
Microstructural Advances in the Understanding of Carbohydrate Glasses
Molecular Mobility of Bioactive Compounds in Biopolymer Matrices
Hydroccoloids and Medical Chemistry Applications
Fundamentals and Application of Protein Gelation
Biopolymer Composite Theory in Relation to Novel Product Development
Effect of Processing on Biopolymer Interactions
Molecular Theory of Polysaccharide Gels and Applications
Unifying Theory of Molecular Dynamics for Synthetic and Bio-macromolecules across the Viscoelastic Spectrum
Self Assembling Structures
Coacervates as Food Ingredients or Microencapsulation Delivery Systems
Biopolymer Films and Composite Coatings
Applications of Single-Molecule Techniques

Subject Areas: Pharmaceutical technology [TDCW], Food & beverage technology [TDCT], Plastics & polymers technology [TDCP], Organic chemistry [PNN], Pharmacology [MMG]