Gelation and microstructure of dilute gellan solutions with calcium ions

Food Hydrocolloids

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 291-300

  Pérez Campos, Sixto J ^a   Chavarría Hernández, Norberto ^a   Tecante, Alberto ^b   Ramírez Gilly, Mariana ^b   Rodríguez Hernández, Adriana I ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE HIDALGO   (Mexico)

^b Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Facultad de Quimica   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Gellan; Rheology; Sol gel transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856568221     PISSN: 0268005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodhyd.2012.01.008     Document Type: Article

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