Using SANS to understand the structural basis for the rheology of molten chocolate

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Molten chocolate is a semi-solid suspension of (mostly) sugar, but also cocoa and milk solids in oil. In order to allow the sugar grains to flow past each other, either when the chocolate is being made, or when it has melted in your mouth, it also contains additives known as surfactants. These are mostly naturally occuring products, such as lecithin, which is comprises lipids which are found at surfaces in nature, but also some polymeric molecules such as PGPR. We will use the technique of small angle neutron scattering to gain the structural information to test a model we have derived using polymer physics to explain how they lubricate the sugar grains and hence make nicer, healthier and cheaper chocolate.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.86388888
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/86388888
Provenance
Creator Dr Simon Titmuss; Dr James Doutch; Dr Iva Manasi; Dr Sophie Ayscough
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-05-23T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-05-24T08:07:17Z