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Titanium dioxide is used primarily in the production of paints, printing inks and paper products. It is also widely used in cosmetics and personal care products as sunscreen and whitening agent. It can be used as a whitening agent in solid fatty acids and soap noodles (Fairhurst and Mitchnik, 1997). For solid fatty acids and … Read more

Increasing pressure to bring novel specialty compounds to market has initiated the automation of laboratory reactors to perform controlled experiments at laboratory scale which can be easily scaled-up. Product and process developments in the shortest time to produce the first kilogramme of compound for commercial evaluation is of utmost importance. The LabMax reactor is a … Read more

Polymorphism is defined as the ability of a chemical compound to form different crystalline structures. The three basic polymorphic forms of fats are !, “’ and “. The !-form is the least stable and has the lowest melting temperature and the “-form the most stable with the highest melting temperature. The “’ has intermediate characteristics … Read more

Advances in MPOB’s genetic engineering programme have made it possible to genetically engineer oil palm for producing valuable commercial products such as high oleate, high stearate and biodegradable plastics. New approaches have been invented to produce transgenic palms such as establishment of a transformation system, isolation of important genes and promoters, construction of transformation vectors with the … Read more

Main Research:  Zubaidah Ramli