The use of low temperatures is an important factor for maintaining postharvest quality of fruits and greatly influences the rate of deterioration. The objective of cooling is to prolong the commercial life of perishable ...

The bovine pericardium has been used as biomaterial in developing bioprostheses. Freeze-drying is a drying process that could be used for heart valve's preservation. The maintenance of the characteristics of the biomaterial ...

Studies involving different methods and techniques of cryopreservation and its interactions with the conception rates in artificial insemination (AI) programs are reported in the literature. This study evaluated the sperm ...

Transplantation brings hope for many patients. A multidisciplinary approach on this field aims at creating biologically functional tissues to be used as implants and prostheses. The freeze-drying process allows the fundamental ...

The ready-meals market has grown significantly in developed countries over the past decade. In particular, organic pasta entirely formulated with organic ingredients and marketed as ready-to-eat meals, is an excellent ...

The selection of freezing conditions is very important in order to optimize the efficiency of the freezing process and simultaneously retain the biological microstructure. Fresh strawberry and osmotically dehydrated ...

Scientists have explored different manufacturing methods aiming at obtaining synthetic materials with controlled porosity, among them, Freeze Casting allows a control of the pore characteristics formed within the material ...