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Plant Foods Hum Nutr
January 2025
Food4You Research Group, Department of Food Science and Nutrition (DECAN), Faculty of Food Engineering (FEA), Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil.
The Amazon region holds untapped potential with its starch-rich tubers, which are not yet industrialized and face a risk of extinction due to competition from widely cultivated crops. Beyond their traditional subsistence use, Amazonian tubers such as Mairá and Ariá can be utilized as starch sources, offering an opportunity to support regional agriculture, preserve indigenous heritage, and provide sustainable income streams. This study aimed to characterize starches extracted from Mairá (MPS) and Ariá (ARS for rhizome and APS for potato), focusing on their technological and functional potential.
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January 2025
Department Electronics and Communication Engineering, BKIT Dwarahat, Dwarahat, Uttarakhand, India, 263653.
A novel surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor is presented utilizing a BK7 prism, copper (Cu), silicon dioxide (SiO), nickel (Ni), and black phosphorus (BP) for enhanced biomolecule sensing in the refractive index (RI) range of 1.33 - 1.335.
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January 2025
Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, North 10 West 5, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan.
Ligand-shell engineering of ultrasmall metal clusters is a burgeoning research field aiming to develop cluster-specific properties. However, predicting these properties prior to synthesis is challenging due to their high sensitivity to geometric and/or electronic variations in ultrasmall metal cores, hindering further exploration. In this study, we present a theory-directed ligand-shell design and significant red-shift in absorption of a prolate-shaped [Au(diphosphine)Cl] cluster by synthesizing and characterizing enantiopure octagold clusters bearing chiral BINAP-type ligands [BINAP = 2,2'-bis(diphenylphosphino)-1,1'-binaphthyl].
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTex Heart Inst J
January 2025
Center for Women's Heart and Vascular Health, The Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas.
Myocardial bridging is a frequent anomaly of the heart in humans and other animals. A myocardial bridge is typically characterized by the systolic narrowing seen with traditional catheter angiography, but this abnormality is not by itself a sign of ischemia or the need for intervention. In particular, transient spontaneous angina must be corroborated by reproducible narrowing during acetylcholine testing; this narrowing occurs during resting conditions and is responsive to nitroglycerin administration.
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January 2025
Department of Chemical Engineering, The Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscience and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer Sheva 84105 Israel
Entropy-driven assembly of nematic liquid-crystal phases of cellulose nanocrystals (SCNCs) in aqueous suspensions results in the emergence of a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase (N* phase). We report that a solvated, non-adsorbing, highly branched natural polysaccharide, Gum Arabic (GA), strongly affects the assembly of the SCNCs and modifies the phase diagram: GA leads to significant crowding of the SCNC rods and induces a new liquid-liquid phase transition, where SCNC-rich and GA-rich droplets coexist. The solvated GA does not induce coagulation or gelation of the suspended SCNCs (at low concentrations of 1-3 wt% of GA).
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