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CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS
Volume 123, Issue -, Pages 432-442Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2015.01.072
Keywords
Functional food; Chitosan; Emulsion; Membrane emulsification; Microcapsule; Colloidal stability
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- Nanyang Technological University
- NMRC [NMRC/EDG/1034/2011]
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Fish oil-loaded microcapsules were prepared from oil-in-water emulsions using N-stearoyl O-butylglyceryl chitosan as shell material. The emulsions were prepared by both membrane and ultrasonic emulsification processes under variable conditions to examine the effect of the emulsification process and encapsulation conditions on the characteristics of the microcapsules. The microcapsules were characterized with respect to their morphologies, colloidal stability, loading capacity, encapsulation efficiency and release profile. The microcapsules formed by the membrane emulsification process exhibited larger diameter compared to those from the ultrasonic emulsification process which gave a mean effective diameter of approximate to 1 mu m. The microcapsules obtained by membrane emulsification process gave better loading capacity and encapsulation efficiency. The microcapsules from both processes showed sustained release of fish oil and the release profile depended on the type of the process. TGA confirmed that encapsulation using Nstearoyl O-butylglyceryl chitosan impeded heat transfer and significantly increased the thermal stability of the encapsulated fish oil. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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