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I am interested in connecting the fundamental chemistry of food & beverage ingredients to their functional properties. Particularly, with understanding the role that physico-chemical aspects of foods alter through the digestion process and may impact on gut health.
Research Summary
Carbohydrates: Carbohydrates occur in nature in a wide range of shapes, sizes and compositions. Characterising the types of carbohydrates that are present in foods will lead to better development of… read more
Selected Publications
SUSAN FLAVIN, MARC MELTONVILLE, CHARLIE TAVERNER, JOSHUA REID, STEPHEN LAWRENCE, CARLOS BELLOCH-MOLINA and JOHN MORRISSEY, 2023. Understanding Early Modern Beer: An Interdisciplinary Case-Study The Historical Journal. REID, JOSHUA E. S. J., YAKUBOV, GLEB E. and LAWRENCE, STEPHEN J., 2022. Non-starch polysaccharides in beer and brewing: A review of their occurrence and significance CRITICAL REVIEWS IN FOOD SCIENCE AND NUTRITION. BERGA, LAURA, BRUCE, ISOBEL, NICOL, THOMAS W. J., HOLDING, ASHLEY J., ISOBE, NORIYUKI, SHIMIZU, SEISHI, WALKER, ADAM J. and REID, JOSHUA E. S. J., 2020. Cellulose dissolution and regeneration using a non-aqueous, non-stoichiometric protic ionic liquid system CELLULOSE. 27(16), 9593-9603
Current Research
Carbohydrates: Carbohydrates occur in nature in a wide range of shapes, sizes and compositions. Characterising the types of carbohydrates that are present in foods will lead to better development of foods and beverages with increased carbohydrate diversity. Employing a wide suite of analytical capabilities within the School of Biosciences, we seek to understand fundamentally the diverse molecular nature of cabohydrates.
Solution chemistry: In solution, the interactions between molecular species are directly relatable to the macroscopic properties of the solution. By rationalising these molecular interactions, we can obtain key mechanistic insights of how solution properties change through solution composition. Through a combination of statistical thermodynamic theory, thermodynamic properties and spectroscopic insight, we seek to understand mechanisms of solvation, of particular interest on co-solute-induced solubility.
Protic Ionic Liquids: Protic Ionic Liquids are a class of materials broadly classified as binary liquid mixtures of a Bronsted acid and base, creating a mixture of neutral and ionic species in equilibrium. These complex binary mixtures have great potential as solvents for difficult to dissolve solutes, such as cellulose. Understanding the solvation properties of protic ionic liquids in the context of these challenging solutes will result in better utilisation of these solvents.