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Structural Study on Fat Crystallization Process Heterogeneously Induced by Graphite Surfaces
Some inorganic and organic crystals have been recently found to promote fat crystallization in thermodynamically stable polymorphs, though they lack long hydrocarbon chains. The novel promoters are talc, carbon nanotube, graphite, theobromine, ellagic acid dihydrate, and terephthalic acid, among whi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7587562/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33086514 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules25204786 |
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author | Kaneko, Fumitoshi Yamamoto, Yoshinori Yoshikawa, Shinichi |
author_facet | Kaneko, Fumitoshi Yamamoto, Yoshinori Yoshikawa, Shinichi |
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description | Some inorganic and organic crystals have been recently found to promote fat crystallization in thermodynamically stable polymorphs, though they lack long hydrocarbon chains. The novel promoters are talc, carbon nanotube, graphite, theobromine, ellagic acid dihydrate, and terephthalic acid, among which graphite surpasses the others in the promotion effect. To elucidate the mechanism, we investigated the influence of graphite surfaces on the crystallization manner of trilaurin in terms of crystal morphology, molecular orientation, and crystallographic features. Polarized optical microscopy, cryo-scanning electron microscopy, synchrotron X-ray diffractometry, and polarized Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy combined with the attenuated total reflection sampling method were employed for the analyses. All the results suggested that the carbon hexagonal network plane of graphite surfaces have a high potential to facilitate the clustering of fat molecules against high thermal fluctuations in fat melt, the fat molecules form a layer structure parallel to the graphite surface, and the clusters tend to grow into thin plate crystals of the β phase at the temperatures corresponding to low supercooling. The β′ phase also has a larger chance to grow on the graphite surface as supercooling increases. |
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spelling | pubmed-75875622020-10-29 Structural Study on Fat Crystallization Process Heterogeneously Induced by Graphite Surfaces Kaneko, Fumitoshi Yamamoto, Yoshinori Yoshikawa, Shinichi Molecules Article Some inorganic and organic crystals have been recently found to promote fat crystallization in thermodynamically stable polymorphs, though they lack long hydrocarbon chains. The novel promoters are talc, carbon nanotube, graphite, theobromine, ellagic acid dihydrate, and terephthalic acid, among which graphite surpasses the others in the promotion effect. To elucidate the mechanism, we investigated the influence of graphite surfaces on the crystallization manner of trilaurin in terms of crystal morphology, molecular orientation, and crystallographic features. Polarized optical microscopy, cryo-scanning electron microscopy, synchrotron X-ray diffractometry, and polarized Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy combined with the attenuated total reflection sampling method were employed for the analyses. All the results suggested that the carbon hexagonal network plane of graphite surfaces have a high potential to facilitate the clustering of fat molecules against high thermal fluctuations in fat melt, the fat molecules form a layer structure parallel to the graphite surface, and the clusters tend to grow into thin plate crystals of the β phase at the temperatures corresponding to low supercooling. The β′ phase also has a larger chance to grow on the graphite surface as supercooling increases. MDPI 2020-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7587562/ /pubmed/33086514 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules25204786 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Kaneko, Fumitoshi Yamamoto, Yoshinori Yoshikawa, Shinichi Structural Study on Fat Crystallization Process Heterogeneously Induced by Graphite Surfaces |
title | Structural Study on Fat Crystallization Process Heterogeneously Induced by Graphite Surfaces |
title_full | Structural Study on Fat Crystallization Process Heterogeneously Induced by Graphite Surfaces |
title_fullStr | Structural Study on Fat Crystallization Process Heterogeneously Induced by Graphite Surfaces |
title_full_unstemmed | Structural Study on Fat Crystallization Process Heterogeneously Induced by Graphite Surfaces |
title_short | Structural Study on Fat Crystallization Process Heterogeneously Induced by Graphite Surfaces |
title_sort | structural study on fat crystallization process heterogeneously induced by graphite surfaces |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7587562/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33086514 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules25204786 |
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