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Tripeptide Emulsifiers Featured in INFORM Magazine

Gary’s recent work with the development of tripeptide based emulsifiers (published in Advanced Materials) has been attracting quite a bit of attention from the food and cosmetics industry. This work was featured in the February, 2017 edition of INFORM magazine, which is a leading international magazine on oils, fats and related materials. The article “Structuring with Peptides” by Fiona […]

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WestChem Research Day – Katie Won!

The WestChem Research day was recently held at the University of Strathclyde. Talks were given by students from both Glasgow and Strathclyde universities and a plenary lecture by Professor Sabine Flitsch, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Manchester. After an interesting day of talks, Katie won the prize for best talk.

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Tripeptide Emulsifiers on Front Cover of Advanced Materials

Gary’s work on the discovery of a new class of tripeptide emulsifiers is featured on the front cover of Advanced Materials and has received write-ups in several online science sites. The work has been done in collaboration with the Ulijn group and Macphie of Glenbervie (a food ingredients company).     Text Below from ScienceDaily: […]

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Ivan Passes his PhD Viva

In an intense six week period leading up to Christmas, 2015, Ivan wrote, revised and completed his PhD thesis. This work was the culmination of just under 3 years of study within the field of experimental and computational approaches to understanding the nanostructure of Fmoc-based dipeptide systems. Ivan’s work considered the fundamental questions of whether gels […]

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