Noticias
16.03.2021Publicado el artículo "A New and Highly Stable Cocrystal of Vitamin D3 for Use in Enhanced Food Supplements"
El Dr. Rafel Prohens, responsable de la Unidad de Polimorfismo y Calorimetría de los CCiTUB, junto con el Dr. Rafael Barbas y la Sra. Dafne de Sande de la misma tecnología, y Sra. Lidia Bofill de la empresa CIRCE (Center for Intelligent Research in Crystal Engineering S.L), han publicado el artículo "A New and Highly Stable Cocrystal of Vitamin D3 for Use in Enhanced Food Supplements" en la revista Crystal Growth & Design. El artículo es fruto del convenio de colaboración entre CCiTUB i la empresa CIRCE.
La revista Crystal Growth & Design pertenece a la American Chemical Society y es la revista científica de mayor impacto dentro del campo de la Ingeniería Cristalina (Q1, IF= 4.1), campo de trabajo de la Unidad.
El resumen del artículo es el siguiente:
"A new cocrystal of Vitamin D3 (Cholecalciferol) and resorcinol has been discovered and characterized through experimental cocrystal screening. Its high stability has been studied against light, heat, and chemicals present in animal food premixes in order to develop a novel and alternative formulation to current microencapsulation approaches to protect Vitamin D3 from oxidation. Our results show that the new cocrystal is extremely stable and it can become the basis for very efficient formulations of Vitamin D3 which fulfills the stability requirements of industrial applications."