Ethylene control in fruit quality assurance: A material science perspective

Y Jiang, Z Liu, M Peydayesh, B Zhang, X Jia… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The waste of resources associated with fruit decay is rapidly spreading globally, threatening
the interests of relevant practitioners and the health of consumer groups, and demanding …

A comparative study on stabilizing and releasing thymol by pre-formed V-type starch and β-cyclodextrin

Q Gao, J Zheng, P Van der Meeren, B Zhang, X Fu… - Food …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cyclodextrins (CD) are well known to form host-guest assemblies with hydrophobic
compounds. As a structural homologue, starch-guest inclusion complexes (ICs) have …

Stabilization and release of thymol in pre-formed V-type starch: A comparative study with traditional method

Q Gao, J Zheng, P Van der Meeren, B Zhang, X Fu… - Carbohydrate …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recently, pre-formed V-type starch has become popular as a versatile carrier in
encapsulation systems of containing starch-guest inclusion complexes (ICs). However, the …

Efficient preparation of starch-lipid complexes: A review

M Gu, H Luo, Z Zhang, F Ye, G Zhao - International Journal of Biological …, 2025 - Elsevier
Given their diverse techno-functional traits and huge potential in sha** better food textural,
nutritional, and flavor attributes, starch-lipid complexes have attracted much effort in the last …

Low density methacrylated pea, corn, and tapioca starch covalent cryogels with excellent elasticity and water/oil absorption capacity

Y Liu, W Zhong, M **ng - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2024 - Elsevier
Porous starch materials are promising in several applications as renewable natural
biomaterials. This study reports an approach combining methacrylation of starch and …

Comparative study of the structure and mechanical properties of starch aerogels fabricated from air-classified and isolated pulse starches

KJ Falua, A Babaei-Ghazvini, B Acharya - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Significant amounts of starch and protein are generated as co-products during fractionation
of pulse seeds. While pulse proteins (PP) have garnered a lot of interest in numerous …

Mechanism of interaction between agar and corn starch: Towards improved properties of starch-based cryogel

Z Wu, Y Kong, T He, Y Li, Z Kang, F **e, T Liu - Food Hydrocolloids, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, agar/corn starch cryogels with different morphologies and characteristics were
synthesized using sol, gel, and freeze-drying techniques. The addition of agar increased the …

Metal-loaded starch aerogel for ethylene adsorption under ambient conditions and its preservation of bananas

Y Jiang, B Zhang, X Jiang, Z Baolati, B Zhang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2025 - Elsevier
The development of materials for the control of ethylene concentration is crucial for
managing fruit ripening and minimizing postharvest decay. However, commonly used …

Polymorphic nanostarch-mediated assembly of bioactives

S Yao, Q Zhu, Y **anyu, D Liu, E Xu - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2024 - Elsevier
Starch as an edible, biosafe, and functional biopolymer, has been tailored at nanoscale to
deliver bioactive guests. Nanostarches fabricated in various morphologies including …

Improving the resistance to enzyme digestion of rice debranched starch via narrowing chain length distribution combined with oven drying

Y Wang, Z Wu, Y Lin, A Hui, H Tao, A Shah… - Starch …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, the effects of chain length distribution and drying methods on the structural
properties and in vitro digestibility of resistant starch (RS) are investigated. Rice starch is …