Freeze-drying, also known as lyophilization, is a form of dehydration. Food is first frozen, then dried under pressure to remove its water content. It is widely believed that freeze-drying is the best ...

Freeze-drying, or lyophilisation, is an essential dehydration method deployed across pharmaceutical, food, and biological industries to preserve sensitive materials. The process involves freezing a ...

Developed by a team from MIT and the Polytechnic University of Turin, a continuous freeze-drier moves vials through a sequence of chambers where the contents are cooled to a uniform temperature, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University researchers and industry leaders are teaming up to transform the freeze-drying process, formally known as lyophilization, used to make everything from ...

Freeze drying is a process for preserving different types of food, and the benefits of freeze-dried food are many. While dehydrated foods sometimes have a very different texture and taste from their ...

Freeze-drying has become an essential preservation method in laboratories across research, clinical and industrial settings. Whether you’re preserving biological samples, developing pharmaceutical ...

From left are Alina Alexeenko and Elizabeth Topp. Purdue University has created a new lyophilization consortium, LyoHUB, to improve freeze-drying technology. Topp, head of the Purdue’s Department of ...

Richard Wood describes how the precise control and measurement of the thermodynamic properties of materials can improve freeze-drying processes Freeze-drying (lyophilization) is the process of ...

A RECENT communication 1 discusses the freeze-drying process as conducted with the pressure of permanent gas, and the vapour pressure of the ice on the condenser, maintained at very low levels.

Germany, Bavaria, Munich, Scientist researching lyophilisation of proteins in laboratory Freeze drying has found many applications in the production of sensitive and high-value food, drink and ...

In fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, it's not just the vaccines that require complicated cold supply chains and refrigerated storage. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests -- often considered the "gold ...