Rheological, microbiological and sensory properties of fermented khainak milk fermented with different starter cultures

Cıldızay ÖZBEKOVA | Aygül USUBALİYEVA | Ruslan ADİL AKAY TEGİN | Anarseyit DEYDİEV

A comparison study of the fermentation process of khainak (a hybrid of yak and cattle) and cow milk with commercial yoghurt (thermophilic), quark (mesophilic and mixed) starter cultures was conducted to find suitable starters using modern rheological, microbiological, and sensory methods. Lactic acid accumulation dynamic during the fermentation process of khainak milk with yoghurt starters was faster but did not differ from cow milk. The gel strength of the fermented khainak milk (206.3-447.2 Pa) was higher than that of cow milk (40-158 Pa). The total viable bacterial counts of all samples wer ...More

Magnetic nanoparticles preparation by chemical reduction for biomedical applications

Ruslan ADİL AKAY TEGİN

This work presents Fe3O4 and AgFe nanoparticles with an average diameter of 25 and 15 nm synthesized by chemical reduction of corresponding salts under a mild condition. Cubic crystal structure and spherical shape of the nanoparticles were studied by X-ray diffraction, Field emission SEM and energy-dispersive spectroscopy analysis. For biomedical applications, the nanoparticles were tested against bacteria E.coli and results revealed AgFe nanoparticles

Erratum: On the Temporal Stability of Analyte Recognition with an E-Nose Based on a Metal Oxide Sensor in Practical Applications (vol 18, 550, 2018)

Ruslan ADİL AKAY TEGİN | Camilya SMANALİYEVA | Coşkan ILICALI

On the Temporal Stability of Analyte Recognition with an E-Nose Based on a Metal Oxide Sensor in Practical Applications

Ruslan ADİL AKAY TEGİN | Camilya SMANALİYEVA | Coşkan ILICALI

The paper deals with a functional instability of electronic nose (e-nose) units which significantly limits their real-life applications. Here we demonstrate how to approach this issue with example of an e-nose based on a metal oxide sensor array developed at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany). We consider the instability of e-nose operation at different time scales ranging from minutes to many years. To test the e-nose we employ open-air and headspace sampling of analyte odors. The multivariate recognition algorithm to process the multisensor array signals is based on the linear d ...More

Synthesis of Nanomaterials by the Pulsed Plasma in Liquid and their Bio-medical Applications

Emil ÖMÜRZAK | Ruslan ADİL AKAY TEGİN

Pulsed plasma in liquid is a simple, ecologically friendly, cost-efficient method based on electrical discharge between two metal electrodes submerged into a dielectric liquid. We synthesized carbon-encapsulated Fe (Fe@C) magnetic nanoparticles with low cytotoxicity using pulsed plasma in a liquid. Body-centered cubic Fe core nanoparticles showed good crystalline structures with an average size between 20 and 30 nm were encapsulated in onion-like carbon coatings with a thickness of 2–10 nm. Thermal gravimetric analysis showed a high stability of the as-synthesized samples under thermal treatme ...More

Effect of surfactant materials to nanoparticles formation under pulsed plasma conditions and their antibacterial properties

Emil ÖMÜRZAK | Ruslan ADİL AKAY TEGİN

Pulsed plasma between two Zn rods submerged into aqueous solution of cetyl trimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) and sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) surfactants resulted in formation of pure ZnO nanorods, while the pulsed plasma between two Zn rods in water without surfactant yielded a mixture of ZnO and Zn nanoparticles. Carbon coated ZnO nanorods with about 20 nm thickness and 150 nm length were synthesized by this method using different surfactant materials such as CTAB and SDS. Cu nanoparticles of about 10 nm in size were also synthesized by the pulsed plasma in aqueous solution of 0.2 % gelatine ...More