Exploring gelation and contact aging in colloidal gels: Insights from casein micelles with tuneable softness

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Enzymatic milk gels result from the destabilization of casein micelles, which are natural colloids found in milk. After aggregation, these soft particles have been shown to display “contact-aging”, i.e. the reinforcement of their contact or “sintering” over time. This microscopic mechanism may drive the pronounced structural aging reported for a wide variety of colloidal gels, where the gel network is found to coarsen over time. The casein micelles are colloids with softness that can be adjusted by varying the pH or adding different types of salt. Within this proposal, we aim to relate the microscopic rearrangement of casein micelles with tuneable softness and the evolution of the mesoscopic structure of the gels.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.15151/ESRF-ES-2045054151
Metadata Access https://icatplus.esrf.fr/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatplus.esrf.fr:inv/2045054151
Provenance
Creator Florence ROUSSEAU ORCID logo; Fanny GUYOMARC'H ORCID logo; Erik JUSTE ORCID logo; Thomas CROGUENNEC ORCID logo; JULIEN BAULAND ORCID logo; Narayanan THEYENCHERI ORCID logo; Thomas GIBAUD ORCID logo; Ghazi BEN MESSAOUD ORCID logo
Publisher ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility)
Publication Year 2028
Rights CC-BY-4.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Data from large facility measurement; Collection
Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields