Understanding soft glassy materials using an energy landscape approach.

Many seemingly different soft materials-such as soap foams, mayonnaise, toothpaste and living cells-display strikingly similar viscoelastic behaviour. A fundamental physical understanding of such soft glassy rheology and how it can manifest in such diverse materials, however, remains unknown. Here, by using a model soap foam consisting of compressible spherical bubbles, whose sizes slowly evolve and whose collective motion is simply dictated by energy minimization, we study the foam's dynamics as it corresponds to downhill motion on an energy landscape function spanning a high-dimensional configuration space.

In Situ Fibril Formation of κ-Casein by External Stimuli within Multilayer Thin Films.

We have developed the in situ fibrillation of κ-casein, employed as amyloid precursor, within multilayer films consisting of κ-casein and poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) prepared by the layer-by-layer (LbL) deposition. The fibrillation of κ-casein within the multilayered films is strongly dependent on the extent of intermolecular interactions between κ-casein and PAA. When films constructed initially at pH 3 were heat treated at the same pH, κ-casein did not transform into fibrils.

Polyphenol compounds and anti-inflammatory activities of Korean black raspberry ( Rubus coreanus Miquel) wines produced from juice supplemented with pulp and seed.

Three types of Korean black raspberry wine were produced via alcoholic fermentation from juice, juice-pulp, and juice-pulp-seed, respectively. These wines were compared in terms of their anti-inflammatory activities and polyphenol contents. The total content of polyphenol compounds in wines was increased by 22.