Title: Stabilisation and Controlled Release of Functional Food Ingredients by Encapsulation
Speaker: Prof. Zhibing Zhang(University of Birmingham)
Time: 3:00-5:00pm ,March 29, 2018 (Thursday)
Location: Dongtang Conference Room, Building #13
Report summary：Functional food ingredients include probiotic cells, nutracutical enzymes, anti-oxidants and flavours, which can provide healthy benefits or pleasant sensory experiences to consumers. However, they tend to be unstable during engineering processing, storage and passing through the gastrointestinal tract. At Birmingham, novel research in the areas of encapsulation and micromanipulation has been developed with applications in pharmaceutical, nutracutical, food and feed, fabric care, oral care and agrochemical industrial sectors. In particular, a number of functional food ingredients such as healthy bacterium lactobacillus acidophilus, yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), and nutraceutical enzyme (Nattokinase) have been encapsulated with aims to reduce their loss of viability or activity in the processes leading to making final products, increase their storage stability on the shelf and control their release to the right place at right time. The effects of formulation and processing conditions chosen based on fundamental understanding of the material properties on the viability or activity have been extensively investigated, and the technical details will be presented.
Introduction of speaker：Professor Zhibing Zhang (ZZ) BEng MSc PhD DSc CEng FIChemE is Leader of Micromanipulation and Microencapsulation Research Group in School of Chemical Engineering, Deputy Director of the China Institute, University of Birmingham, UK, and Director of Microforce Measurement Ltd, UK.
He obtained his BEng in Chemical Engineering from Hefei University of Technology, China in 1982, MSc and PhD in Chemical Engineering from East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), Shanghai in 1985 and 1988 respectively, and moved to the University of Birmingham, UK in 1989. He has developed an international reputation in micromanipulation and microencapsulation research, collaborated with 42 international and national companies, and provided consultancy services to 27 companies.
ZZ is a member of the Editorial Boards of Journal of Microencapsulation, and Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine and Biotechnology, and International Advisory Board of Particuology, Senior Editor of Chemical Engineering of Cogent Engineering, UK representative to the Management Committee of European COST 840 on Bioencapsulation Innovation and Technologies, member of Consumers and Diversified Committee of Controlled Release Society, USA, EPSRC Peer Review College and Engineering Panel, accreditation assessor and member of Education and Accreditation Forum of Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) and Overseas Assessor of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Moreover, he is an adjunct/visiting/guest professor of ECUST, South China University of Technology, Sichuan University and China Ocean University.
His research has resulted in >170 academic refereed papers, and 270 other publications including book chapters, conference papers, 6 patents and a number of invited presentations at international conferences or meetings. His work on developing “Perfume microcapsules for detergents” in collaboration with Proctor & Gamble Belgium was highly commended for the Global Innovative Product Award 2014 by the IChemE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SltXHwGDMqA).
