Modern biopolymer science : bridging the divide between fundamental treatise and industrial application

• Other Authors: Kasapis, Stefan., Norton, Ian T., Ubbink, Johan B.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Academic Press, 2009.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Subjects: Biopolymers.; Biopolymers > Biotechnology.; Biopolymers > Industrial applications.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9780080921143; 0080921140; 0123741955; 9780123741950
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 627 pages) : illustrations
• Access: Plný text je dostupný pouze z IP adres počítačů Univerzity Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně nebo vzdáleným přístupem pro zaměstnance a studenty

Industrialists developing new food and pharmaceutical products face the challenge of innovation in an increasingly competitive market that must consider incredient cost, product added-value, expectations of a healthy life-style, improved sensory impact, controlled delivery of active compounds and last, but not lease, product stability. While much work has been done to explore, understand, and address these issues, a gap has emerged between recent advances in fundamental knowledge and its direct application to product situations with a growing need for scientific input. Modern Biopolymer Science matches science to application by first acknowledging the differing viewpoints between those working with low-solids and those working with high-solids, and then sharing the expertise of those two camps under a unified framework of materials science. * Real-world utilisation of fundamental science to achieve breakthroughs in product development * Includes a wide range of related aspects of low and high-solids systems for foods and pharmaceuticals * Covers more than bio-olymer science in foods by including biopolymer interactions with bioactive compounds, issues of importance in drug delivery and medicinal chemistry.