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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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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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SMARTNET meeting – Delft October 2015

As part of a European International Training Network, named SMARTNET, Ivan and Ines meet the other colleagues and supervisors in the network every 6 months. This October, the meeting was held in the TU Delft facilities.   All the project leaders (including Dr. Tell Tuttle) met on Monday afternoon and then a great welcoming dinner took place […]

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