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Dr Wing-fu Lai
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Dr Lai Wing-fu

Assistant Professor

Education and Academic Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Hong Kong

Research Overview

Food materials science is a field of study related to the development, characterization, processing and engineering of materials for food applications. Dr. Lai’s research lies in this field, and focuses on the design and engineering of functional polymeric materials for bioactive agent encapsulation, food packaging, and food product development.

Research Interests

  • Materials engineering
  • food packaging
  • food microencapsulation
  • food product development
  • bioactive agent delivery
  • sustained release

Achievements

  1. Lai, W. F., & Wong, W. T. (2022). Edible clusteroluminogenic films obtained from starch of different botanical origins for both food packaging and real-time quality management of packaged frozen foods. Membranes, 12(4), 437.
  2. Lai, W. F., & Wong, W. T. (2021). Property-tuneable gelatine-based microgels fabricated by using flow-focusing microfluidic geometry for bioactive agent delivery. Pharmaceutics, 13(6), 787.
  3. Lai, W. F., Wong, E., & Wong, W. T. (2020). Multilayered composite-coated ionically crosslinked food-grade hydrogel beads generated from algal alginate for controlled and sustained release of bioactive compounds. RSC Advances, 10, 44522 - 44532. 
  4. Hu, C. S., Wong, W. T., Wu, R. Y., Lai, W. F. (2020). Biochemistry and use of soybean isoflavones in functional food development. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 60(12), 2098-2112.
  5. Lai, W. F., Hu, C. S., Deng, G. X., Lui, K. H., Wang, X., Tsoi, T. H., Wang, S. X., Wong, W. T. (2019). A biocompatible and easy-to-make polyelectrolyte dressing with tunable drug delivery properties for wound care. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 566, 101-110.
 

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