Measuring the reflectivity from molten chocolate sandwiches

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Molten chocolate is a dense suspension of solids (mainly sugar) in oil, to which surfactants have been added to improve the flow properties, either during manufacture or in the consumers mouth ('mouth feel'). To obtain the structural details of the interfacial film of surfactants we have turned to neutron reflectivity. By spin-coating a 50-60 nm thick sucrose film onto silicon we have been able to learn that the lecithin component forms into a lamellar-like structure. When we can use an oil with a sufficiently high deuterium content we have also been able to determine the comb polymer (PGPR) distribution. We could do this in a flow cell for the medium chain triglyceride that is a model for the shorter fractions of cocoa butter, but for the majority component we have to use expensive deuterated triolein. Here we will use micron-thick films of surfactant containing deuterated triolein.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.90587118
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/90587118
Provenance
Creator Professor Subham Majumdar; Dr Daniel Brunt; Dr Oleg Petrenko; Dr Sophie Ayscough; Dr Simon Titmuss; Dr Maxmilian Skoda; Dr Iva Manasi
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-03-19T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-03-21T08:30:18Z