Optimisation of peptide-stablised emulsiong engineering using microfluidics
Emulsions are extensively used across spanning fields incluiding food,cosmetic and pharmaceutical industry. However, surfactant-modified emulsion enginnering have to compromise between physical stability and biological functionality, owing to a coupling antagonistic design effect. Yuan's phd project aim to investigate bio-surfactant adsorption behavior at oil/water interface, thus providing insight into rational design of functional emulsions with good stability.
Yuan obtained her B.Eng degree in Biomedical Engineering from Shenyang University of Technology, China in 2013 and M.Eng in Biomedical Engineering from Zhejiang University, China in 2016. Yuan have won a National scholarship of China and excellent postgraduate student's award during her master study, she joined AIBN as a phd student in 2017 with a full scholarship (RTP scholarship) provided by UQ.
Key Publications
- Yuan Gao; Ming-Wei Chang; Zeeshan Ahmad; Jing-Song Li, Magnetic-responsive microparticles with customized porosity for drug delivety. RSC Advances. 2016, 6 (91), 88157-88167.
- Yuan Gao; Ding Zhao; Ming-Wei Chang; Zeeshan Ahmad; Jing-Song Li, Optimising the shell thickness-to- radius ratio for the fabrication of oil-encapsulated polymeric microspheres. Chemical Engineering Journal. 2016, 284, 963-971.
- Yuan Gao; Yongtong Bai; Ding Zhao; Ming-Wei Chang; Zeeshan Ahmad; Jing-Song Li, Tuning Microparticle Porosity during Single Needle Electrospraying Synthesis via a Non-Solvent-Based Physicochemical Approach. Polymers. 2015, 7, 2701-2710.
- Yuan Gao; Ding Zhao; Ming-Wei Chang ; Zeeshan Ahmad; Xiang Li; Hairui Suo; Jing-Song Li, Morphology control of electrosprayed core-shell particles via collection media variation. Materials Letters. 2015, 146, 59-64.