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    • Characterisation and in vivo evaluation of Araucaria angustifolia pinhão seed coat nanosuspension as a functional food source 

      de Lima, Gabriel Goetten; de Miranda, Neli Branco; Timm, Thaynã Gonçalves; Matos, Mailson; Magalhães, Washington Luiz Esteves; Tavares, Lorena Benathar Ballod; Hansel, Fabricio Augusto; Helm, Cristiane Vieira (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020-10-08)
      Araucaria angustifolia seeds are culturally important from South America; however, the seed coat is generally discarded and have yet to find a beneficial commercial impact. We propose a new formulation to the usage of ...
    • Characterization of gels and films produced from Pinhão seed coat nanocellulose as a potential use for wound healing dressings and screening of Its compounds towards antitumour effects 

      de Lima, Tielidy A. de M.; de Lima, Gabriel Goetten; Chee, Bor Shin; Henn, Jeferson G.; Cortese, Yvonne J.; Matos, Mailson; Helm, Cristiane V.; Magalhães, Washington L.E.; Nugent, Michael J.D. (MDPI, 2022-07-07)
      The reuse of agro-industrial waste assumes great importance today. Pinhão is the seed of Araucaria angustifolia, which is native to the mountains of southern Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. The coat is a by-product of ...
    • Effect of cullulose size-concentration on the structure of polyvinyl alcohol hydrogels. 

      de Lima, Gabriel Goetten; Ferreira, Bruno; Matos, Mailson; Pereira, Bruno Leandro; Nugent, Michael J.D.; Hansel, Fabríco Augusto; Magalhães, Washington Luiz Esteves (Elsevier, 2020-06-11)
      Microfibrillated cellulose as a reinforcement agent has been investigated extensively due to their unique characteristics, which can reorder the structure of polymers and hydrogels leading to improved mechanical properties ...
    • Microfibrillated cellulose films containing chitosan and tannic acid for wound healing applications 

      Alibadi, Meysam; Chee, Bor Shin; Matos, Mailson; Cortese, Yvonne J.; Nugent, Michael J.D.; de Lima, Tieilidy A. M.; Magalhães, Washingtonn L.E.; de Lima, Gabriel Goetten; Firouzabadi, Mohammadreza Dehghani (Springer, 2021-06-12)
      The effectiveness of tannic acid as antimicrobial and wound healing for burns have been shown for a century; however, uncontrolled target dosage may result in undesirable side-effects. Remarkably, tannic acid polyphenols ...
    • Nanosuspension of pinhão seed coat development for a new high-functional cereal bar. 

      Timm, Thaynã Gonçalves; de Lima, Gabriel Goetten; Matos, Mailson; Magalhães, Washington Luiz Esteves; Tavares, Lorena Benathar Ballod; Helm, Cristiane Vieira (Wiley, 2020-03-31)
      The seeds from Araucaria angustifolia—commonly named as pinhão—are important culturally, and viable regional food from Brazil. Although now considered an endangered species, methods to increase the awareness of this tree ...
    • Prediction of yerba mate caffeine content using near infrared spectroscopy. 

      de Lima, Gabriel Goetten; Ruiz, Henrique Zavattieri; Matos, Mailson; Helm, Cristiane Vieira; de Liz, Marcus Vinicius; Magalhães, Washington Luiz Esteves (Taylor & Francis, 2019-06-10)
      There is a commercial and beneficial interest of producing yerba mate leaves into different grades of caffeine. This work uses a handheld and bench near infrared spectroscopy to compare and predict, using partial least ...
    • Yerba mate extract in microfibrillated cellulose and corn starch films as a potential wound healing bandage 

      Alibadi, Meysam; Chee, Bor Shin; Matos, Mailson; Cortese, Yvonne J.; Nugent, Michael J.D.; de Lima, Tieldy, A.M.; Washington, L.E., Magalhães; de Lima, Gabriel Goetten; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9812-480X (MDPI, 2020-11-27)
      Microfibrillated cellulose films have been gathering considerable attention due to their high mechanical properties and cheap cost. Additionally, it is possible to include compounds within the fibrillated structure in ...