As an intermediate, natural flavor nano-microcapsule has been applied in many fields including food, cosmetic and textile because of controlled release and protecting active ingredient. Functionalizing nano-microcapsule with uniform size and controllable structure has received more and more attention. However, structures and properties of nano-microcapsule are always uncontrollable, which limits its further applications in high-tech areas. Natural flavor nano-microcapsule is structured products, its performance not only depends on proportion and composition, but microstructure and mesoscopic structures also play an important role in products. Under the guidance of the concept of chemical product engineering, in order to meet customers and market demand, our group focus on investigating the interaction between core material and wall material on the molecular scale, building the relationship between structure and properties of natural flavor nano-microcapsule, and precisely producing chemicals using multi-wall materials, micro-fluidic and process analysis technology. In this paper, application progresses of natural flavor nano-microcapsule in different areas have been reviewed. Furthermore, natural flavor nano-microcapsule designed and prepared using the chemical product engineering method are focused on. Finally, challenges in research and the perspective on the future directions of these disciplines are briefly discussed.
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Development of natural flavor nano-microcapsule under the concept of chemical product engineering
2.1 Application of natural flavor nano-microcapsule
2.2 Design of natural flavor nano-microcapsule
2.3 Preparation of natural flavor nano-microcapsule
3 Research strategy of natural flavor nano-microcapsule product
4 Conclusion