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Clarissa Schwab & Mario Martinez-Martinez
AUFF Flagship CellFood Project SupportDescription
01/09-2023 → 31/12-2024
Stale bread waste mainly consists of starch, gluten and arabynoxylans with huge potential for utilization as future biodegradable materials. This explorative project builds on a novel idea and will deliver a scientific breakthrough to fill a current gap in the state-of-the-art by explaining the direct conversion of the stale bread matrix into 100 % biodegradable films with good water resistivity and mechanical properties. Combining crosslinking with food grade catalysts, and reactive extrusion, a novel biomaterial will be prepared. Films will be evaluated in terms of molecular conformations and interactions, moisture sensitivity, and mechanical performance, using advanced chromatography, spectroscopy and microscopy. This will lay the foundation for future rational improvements of the polymer matrix, crosslinking agent and process conditions.
Financing: DFF-Forskningsprojekt1/DFF-Research Project 1Description
01/01-2022 → 01/01-2025
Ruifen Li , Rajmund Mokso , Leonardo Chiappisi & Milena Corredig
ProFOAM is a fundamental research project aiming at understanding the mechanisms underpinning the foaming properties of plant albumins. The project will apply a wide range of soft matter tools at multiple length scales, together with an in-depth molecular understanding of the plant albumins.
The funding will initiate a new area of expertise in Denmark, through the mentoring of Prof. Corredig at AU and the close collaboration with renowned researchers at DTU (DK) and ILL (FR), with expertise in the structure of aqueous foam at the micro-scale.
Description
01/01-2023 → 31/12-2025
