This paper presents a personal view on the potential applications of the milk fat globule membrane as an ingredient in the processed foods area. Several factors are of importance for this dissertation: the biological origin of the membrane, the voluminous literature on its individual components and their relationship with health and wellness, the biological role of milk in nutrition to mammals ...

The Wang-Landau Monte Carlo approach is applied to the coil-globule and melting transitions of off-lattice flexible homopolymers. The solid-liquid melting point and coil-globule transition temperatures are identified by their respective peaks in the heat capacity as a function of temperature. The melting and theta points are well separated, indicating that the coil-globule transition occurs sep...

Using a nearly monodisperse high molar mass poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) sample, we successfully made the conformation change of individual PNIPAM chains from a coil to a fully collapsed stable single chain globule in an extremely dilute aqueous solution, which enabled us to study for the first time the globule-to-coil transition of a single homopolymer chain in solution. A comparison t...