QENS to study the hydration behavior of two types of Calcium caseinate powder using different solvents

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Producing meat analogue instead of real meat is one effective way to reduce carbon emissions and improve animal welfare. Calcium caseinate (CaCas) is a prominent candidate for this purpose. When the powder is mixed with water, it forms a dense gel. This gel can be transformed into fibrous structure under shear and heat. Depending on drying methods and solvent used, spray-dried CaCas with H2O gives pronounced fibrous structure and roller-dried CaCas with D2O give some fibrous structure. We suspect the morphology of the powder and the hydrogen bond both play a role in the structure. The aim of this proposal is to use QENS to study the hydration behavior of the 2 protein powders at different hydration levels using both H2O and D2O. We also hope to disentangle the behavior of hydrogen from the protein and from the water molecule by comparing the H2O and D2O results.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.90584957
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/90584957
Provenance
Creator Dr Victoria Garcia Sakai; Professor Katia Pappas; Miss Bei Tian; Dr Wim Bouwman
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Biology; Biomaterials; Engineering Sciences; Life Sciences; Materials Science; Materials Science and Engineering
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-02-13T09:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-02-19T09:30:00Z