Probing orientations and conformations of peptides and proteins at buried interfaces

W Guo, T Lu, Z Gandhi, Z Chen - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Molecular structures of peptides/proteins at interfaces determine their interfacial properties,
which play important roles in many applications. It is difficult to probe interfacial …

Utilization of zein-based particles in Pickering emulsions: A review

M Li, S He - Food Reviews International, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Zein is an alcohol-soluble protein in corn. It can self-assemble into spherical amphiphilic
micro-/nanoparticles utilized as ideal carriers, encapsulating hydrophobic bioactive …

Mini-Review on Water–Oil Emulsions through Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation

AM El-Zohry, T Sølling - Energy & Fuels, 2023 - ACS Publications
Interfacial interactions between water and oil phases are present in various fields in which
additives, such as surfactants, are utilized to minimize the surface stress between these …

Probing protein aggregation at buried interfaces: distinguishing between adsorbed protein monomers, dimers, and a monomer–dimer mixture in situ

T Lu, W Guo, PM Datar, Y **n, ENG Marsh… - Chemical Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein adsorption on surfaces greatly impacts many applications such as biomedical
materials, anti-biofouling coatings, bio-separation membranes, biosensors, antibody protein …

Scalable production of hydrophobic and photo-thermal conversion bio-based 3D scaffold: Towards oil-water separation and continuous oil collection

Z Li, Y Zhu, J **, D Ye, W Hu, L Song, Y Hu… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nowadays, the organic pollutants and oil contaminations caused by petroleum exploitation,
industrial discharge, and sanitary wastewater are aggravating the water shortage, becoming …

A comprehensive methodology to study double emulsion stability

N Leister, V Götz, SJ Bachmann, S Nachtigall… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hypothesis The stability of emulsions requires the fast formation of viscoelastic interfaces
between water and oil phases. In double emulsions, two surfactant types (hydrophilic and …

Orientation and conformation of hydrophobin at the oil–water interface: Insights from molecular dynamics simulations

H Yu, S Yang, Z Chen, Z Xu, X Quan, J Zhou - Langmuir, 2022 - ACS Publications
Hydrophobins, a new class of potential protein emulsifiers, have been extensively employed
in the food, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries. However, the knowledge of the …

Ion pairing and molecular orientation at liquid/liquid interfaces: Self-assembly and function

L Lin, AU Chowdhury, YZ Ma, RL Sacci… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Molecular orientation plays a pivotal role in defining the functionality and chemistry of
interfaces, yet accurate measurements probing this important feature are few, due, in part, to …

In situ and real-time interfacial rheology and sum frequency generation studies of pale, soft, and exudative-like myosin's hydrophobic interface behavior explained by …

Z Yang, Z Li, C Wang, P Wang, X Lu, X Xu - Food Hydrocolloids, 2024 - Elsevier
To disclose the interfacial behavior of proteins, in situ and in real-time degree information to
which proteins maintain their original conformation at hydrophobic interfaces is critical …

Early sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopic studies on peptides and proteins at interfaces

Z Chen - Biointerphases, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
This paper summarizes the early research results on studying proteins and peptides at
interfaces using sum frequency generation (SFG) vibrational spectroscopy. SFG studies in …