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Microencapsulation of ammodaucus leucotrichus essential oil using chitosan/ TPP/vanillin chemical system
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A. leucotrichus (Coss. & Dur.) Coss. & Dur., known in Algeria as “Kammûnes-sofi”, is a medicinal plant that finds culinary use by indigenous populations. Among others, it is used against stomach pain, indigestion, diarrhea, vomiting, fever, and to combat high blood pressure. In this work, the essential oil of A. leucotrichus, obtained by steam distillation (3h) from fruits collected in March 2015 from Tassili n'Ajjer, a vast plateau in south-east Algeria (25°30'0" N and 9°0'0" E), was chemically and biologically characterized and thereafter microencapsulated using a chitosan/TPP/vanillin system.
A. leucotrichus essential oil microparticles were produced using an atomization/coagulation technique with chitosan as the shell material, sodium tripolyphosphaste (TPP) and vanillin as crosslinking agents. Comparatively to the most used chemical systems, this one presents several advantages since all the raw materials are nontoxic and no organic solvents are required. Moreover, the used microencapsulation process allows the microparticles production in a single step, without having the constrains of the traditionally used oil-in-water (o/w) emulsion based techniques. The adopted procedure comprises the following stages: (1) Chitosan solution (CS) preparation (3.0%, w/v) in acidic medium (acetic acid 3%, v/v); (2) Oil-in-water (o/w) emulsion preparation by emulsifying the essential oil (O) with the chitosan solution at O/CS ratio of 0.025 (v/v) with Tween 80 (emulsifier of HLB=15.0, 1.5%, w/v). The emulsion was homogenized at 11000 rpm during 5 min with a CAT Unidrive X homogenizer; (3) Atomization of the o/w emulsion in a Nisco VarJ30 system (flow rate: 0.3 ml/min) under pressurized nitrogen; (4) Coagulation with TPP (10%, w/v at pH 6.0) followed by vanillin crosslinking (1.0% (w/v), 50ºC at 0.5 ml/min during 2 h). Microparticles were recovered by filtration under reduced pressure, washed with distilled water and stored in the hydrated form.
A. leucotrichus essential oil microparticles were produced using an atomization/coagulation technique with chitosan as the shell material, sodium tripolyphosphaste (TPP) and vanillin as crosslinking agents. Comparatively to the most used chemical systems, this one presents several advantages since all the raw materials are nontoxic and no organic solvents are required. Moreover, the used microencapsulation process allows the microparticles production in a single step, without having the constrains of the traditionally used oil-in-water (o/w) emulsion based techniques. The adopted procedure comprises the following stages: (1) Chitosan solution (CS) preparation (3.0%, w/v) in acidic medium (acetic acid 3%, v/v); (2) Oil-in-water (o/w) emulsion preparation by emulsifying the essential oil (O) with the chitosan solution at O/CS ratio of 0.025 (v/v) with Tween 80 (emulsifier of HLB=15.0, 1.5%, w/v). The emulsion was homogenized at 11000 rpm during 5 min with a CAT Unidrive X homogenizer; (3) Atomization of the o/w emulsion in a Nisco VarJ30 system (flow rate: 0.3 ml/min) under pressurized nitrogen; (4) Coagulation with TPP (10%, w/v at pH 6.0) followed by vanillin crosslinking (1.0% (w/v), 50ºC at 0.5 ml/min during 2 h). Microparticles were recovered by filtration under reduced pressure, washed with distilled water and stored in the hydrated form.
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Microencapsulation Chitosan/TPP/vanillin
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Halla, N.; Fernandes, Isabel P.; Heleno, S.A.; Calhelha, R.C.; Costa, P.; Rodrigues, A.E.; Boucherit, K.; Ferreira, I.C.F.R.; Barreiro, M.F. (2017). Microencapsulation of ammodaucus leucotrichus essential oil using chitosan/ TPP/vanillin chemical system. In XXV Encontro Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Química. FFUL, Lisboa, Portugal