A5074485904- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
- Proteins in Food Systems
- Microencapsulation and Drying Processes
- Wood and Agarwood Research
- Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety
- Microbial Metabolism and Applications
- Food Chemistry and Fat Analysis
- Bee Products Chemical Analysis
- Surfactants and Colloidal Systems
- Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
- Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
- Protein Hydrolysis and Bioactive Peptides
- Polysaccharides Composition and Applications
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Postharvest Quality and Shelf Life Management
- Coconut Research and Applications
- Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
- Natural product bioactivities and synthesis
- Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization
- Food Industry and Aquatic Biology
- Ionic liquids properties and applications
- Insect Pest Control Strategies
- Fungal Biology and Applications
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Food Science and Nutritional Studies
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
2013-2022
Texas Tech University
2017-2022
Knoxville College
2017
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College
2010-2013
Agarwood is the fragrant resin-infused wood derived from wounded trees of Aquilaria species. It a valuable non-timber forest product used in fragrances and as medicine. Reforestation for combination with artificial agarwood-inducing methods serves way to supply agarwood conserve wild stock. However, existing produce poor-quality at low yield. Our study evaluated novel technique producing cultivated trees, called whole-tree (Agar-Wit). Ten different inducers were comparison Agar-Wit three...
In this work, thymol was encapsulated in sodium caseinate using high shear homogenization. The transparent dispersion at neutral pH stable for 30 days room temperature as determined by dynamic light scattering and atomic force microscopy, which agreed with ζ potential of nanoparticles. slightly decreased particle dimension during storage indicates the absence Ostwald ripening. When molecular binding studied fluorescence spectroscopy, observed to bind tyrosine possibly other amino acid...
The composition and antimicrobial activity of the essential oils which were obtained from agarwood originated Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) Gilg stimulated by chemical method (S1) characterized, taking wild (S2) healthy trees (S3) respectively as positive negative controls. S1 was investigated gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). oil showed a similar to that S2, being rich in sesquiterpenes aromatic constituents. However, S3 abundant fatty acids alkanes. Essential S2 had better...
ABSTRACT Essential oil components (EOCs) have limited water solubility and are used at much higher concentrations in complex food matrices than growth media to inhibit pathogens. However, the correlation between activity has not been studied. The objective of this work was characterize EOCs solvents milk correlate with antilisterial activity. solubilities four EOCs, thymol, carvacrol, eugenol, trans -cinnamaldehyde, significantly increased presence 5% (vol/vol) ethanol. In milk, lower water,...
The objectives of the present study were to improve capability microemulsions dissolve peppermint oil by blending sunflower lecithin with Tween 20 and possibility codelivering lipophilic bioactive compounds. loading in 20% (w/w) increased from 3% upon gradual supplementation 6% lecithin. All had particles <12 nm that did not change over 70 d storage at 21 °C. They relatively low Newtonian viscosities physically chemically stable after 50-200-fold dilution water, resulting similar...
O/W emulsions with varied structures were self-assembled as a result of protein-oil binding, which can be tailored for controlled release.