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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0985694
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Establishing the relations between starch nano- and mesostructure and macroscopic physical properties. Starch is the major energy component within human diets, and the most abundant polymer that can be readily extracted from annual crop plants, leading to many actual and potential industrial applications. There are major opportunities to optimise the nutritional value of starches in the human diet, and to enhance the properties of extracted starches as renewable alternatives to petrochemical polymers. This project will open up our understanding of the structure of starch polymers and show how this relates to important properties such as enzyme digestibility rates, leading to new opportunities for public health and commercial benefits.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2009
End Date: 12-2011
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $600,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Polymers | Other Food Sciences | Environmental Engineering Not Elsewhere Classified | Food Sciences |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Nutrition | Grain mill products, starch and starch products (incl. sugar, bakery products) | Chemical sciences
