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2021
Volume fraction measurement of soft (dairy) microgels by standard addition and static light scattering
Volume fraction measurement of soft (dairy) microgels by standard addition and static light scattering
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The volume fraction of the dispersed phase in concentrated soft (dairy) microgels, such as fresh cheese, is directly related to structure and rheology. Measurement or modeling of volume fraction for soft and mechanically sensitive microgel dispersions is problematic, since responsiveness and rheological changes upon mechanical input for these systems limits application of typical functional relationships, i.e., using apparent viscosity. In this paper, we propose a method to measure volume fraction for soft (dairy) microgel dispersions by standard addition and volume-weighted particle size distributions obtained by static light scattering. Relative particle volumes are converted to soft particle volume fraction, based on spiked standard particle volumes. Volume fractions for two example microgel dispersions, namely, differently produced fresh cheeses, were evaluated before and after post-treatments of tempering and mechanical processing. By selecting the size of standard particles based on size ratios and the levels of the mixing ratios/relative fractions, the method could be applied robustly within a wide range of particle sizes (1 to 500 μm) and multimodal size distributions (up to quadmodal). Tempering increased the volume fraction for both example microgel dispersions (P < 0.05). Subsequent mechanical treatment reduced the volume fraction back to the starting value before tempering (P < 0.05). Furthermore, it was shown that the increase and successive decrease in apparent viscosity with tempering and mechanical post-treatments is not exclusively due to particle aggregation and breakdown, but to volume changes of each particle. For environmentally responsive soft matter, the proposed method is promising for measurement of volume fraction.
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Food biophysics, 16 (2021), 2, 237-253.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11483-021-09665-z.
ISSN: 1557-1866
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Heck, A., Nöbel, S., Hitzmann, B., & Hinrichs, J. (2021). Volume fraction measurement of soft (dairy) microgels by standard addition and static light scattering. Food biophysics, 16(2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11483-021-09665-z
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@article{Heck2021,
url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/16411},
doi = {10.1007/s11483-021-09665-z},
author = {Heck, Anisa and Nöbel, Stefan and Hitzmann, Bernd et al.},
title = {Volume fraction measurement of soft (dairy) microgels by standard addition and static light scattering},
journal = {Food biophysics},
year = {2021},
volume = {16},
number = {2},
pages = {237--253},
}