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Table 26.3 (continued)
Materials
Microencapsulated
microalgal
compound
References
Gelatin
Chlorella vulgaris Raposo and
Morais (2011)
Biomass of
Tetraselmis chuii
Bonilla-Ahumada
et al. (2018)
Whey protein
Astaxanthin
Bustos-Garza et al.
(2013)
Table 26.4 Classification of
microencapsulation
techniques (Ozkan et al.
2019)
Classification
Physical methods
Spray drying
Freeze drying
Supercritical fluids-based techniques
Solvent evaporation
Physical-chemical methods
Coacervation
Liposomes
Ionic gelation
Chemical methods
Interfacial polymerization
Molecular inclusion complexation
Table 26.5 Application of microencapsulation to microalgae-based products
Technique
Coating materials
Core material
Authors
Multiple
emulsion/solvent
evaporation
Chitosan
Astaxanthin
Higuera-Ciapara et al.
(2004)
Complex
coacervation
Gelatin
Gum arabic
Oil of Schizochytrium
sp.
Zhang et al. (2012)
Supercritical
fluids-based
techniques
PHBV
Astaxanthin
Machado et al. (2014)
Freeze drying
Maltodextrin
Tween-80
Pigment of Sargassum
sp.
Indrawatia et al. (2015)
Spray drying
Gum arabic
Chitosan
Gelatin
Maltodextrin
Tetraselmis chuii
Bonilla-Ahumada et al.
(2018)
Ionic gelation
Alginate
Calcium chloride
Astaxanthin
Niizawa et al. (2019)