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Soft Matter Blog

Discover the secrets of Soft Matter with us!

* 1. Popularization of knowledge, especially regarding Soft Matter Physics and the impact of High Pressure

* 2. Promoting achievements of young scientists associated with the X-PressMatter IHPP PAS Laboratory

* 3. Promoting knowledge about personalities of the world of science

* 4. Supporting co-organization/ organization of the "Show Yourself in Science" Workshop & International Seminar on Soft Matter

This WEBSITE was created to realize the following, main GOALS:

Soft Matter systems have common features, such as the dominance of elements or local structures on the mesoscale, combined with their relatively weak interactions, which turns out to be sufficient to obtain a tendency to self-organize with even a small change in parameters. This additionally leads to extraordinary sensitivity to even minor endogenous and exogenous factors, e.g., nanoparticles and pressure. In the case of the latter, relatively low pressures P~1 GPa, or even much lower ones, can lead to phases/states with exotic features, often persisting after decompression.

Worth stressing, that for "classical hard matter" systems, a pressure similar to that at the Earth's core (~300 GPa) is typically required, and the resulting "exotic" properties most often disappear upon decompression.

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"Following a request from the European Commission, the Scientific Panel on Biological Hazards (BIOHAZ) was asked to provide a scientific opinion on the efficacy and safety of high-pressure processing (HPP) of food. (...)

HPP was considered a non-thermal treatment (with product temperature < 45°C during the treatment) to be applied at different points in the food processing and preservation chain, aiming to achieve microbial inactivation, particularly of pathogenic vegetative bacteria, to improve food safety."

https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2903/j.efsa.2022.7128

Huge congratulations to an amazing chef _ Piotr Lisakowski, whose passion inspires and creates unforgettable flavors and takes the culinary experience to the next level.