Changes induced by DC electrical field in agar, agarose, alginate and gellan gel beads

Food Hydrocolloids

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 255-263

  Zvitov, R ^a   Nussinovitch, A ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Agar; Agarose; Alginate; Beads; DC electric field; Electrohydrodynamic; Gellan

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ELECTRODES; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS; OSMOSIS;

AGAR; AGAROSE; BEAD; D.C. ELECTRIC FIELDS; DC ELECTRICAL; ELECTRICAL FIELD; GEL BEADS; GELLAN; INNER LAYER; WEIGHT LOSS;

ALGINATE;

AGAR; AGAROSE; ALGINIC ACID; GELLAN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIRECT CURRENT; DRUG RELEASE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; ELECTROLYSIS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GEL; HYDRATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMMERSION; MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION; WEIGHT;

INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 0038613028     PISSN: 0268005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0268-005X(02)00073-5     Document Type: Article

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