{"id":25720,"date":"2022-03-27T21:12:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T19:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wnst\/?p=25720"},"modified":"2022-05-05T08:40:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T06:40:20","slug":"dzien-zelkow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wnst\/en\/2022\/03\/27\/dzien-zelkow\/","title":{"rendered":"International Jellies Day | Sylwia Stiler-Wyszy\u0144ska, MSc Eng."},"content":{"rendered":"

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28 March<\/span><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n

INTERNATIONAL JELLIES DAY<\/span><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n

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28 March is celebrated as International Jellies Day<\/p>\n

Money can\u2019t buy us happiness… but If you have money, you can buy jellies, and then \u2013 you are very close to happiness!<\/p>\n

Our guide to the world of delicious and useful jellies will be Sylwia Stiler-Wyszy\u0144ska, MSc Eng.<\/p>\n

Jellies <\/em>\u2013 probably all of us know them, and I think that everyone has their own favorite ones. They differ in taste, consistency, hardness and shape. But what are jellies, how are they made, what is their history and do they have anything to do with hydroGELS or sol-GELS? All of these questions are answered below.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1629883969954{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}” el_class=”shadow”][vc_column width=”1\/3″ el_class=”foto”][vc_column_text el_class=”foto” css=”.vc_custom_1648409913935{padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;}”]\"\"<\/p>\n

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Sylwia Stiler-Wyszy\u0144ska, MSc Eng.<\/strong><\/small><\/span><\/p>\n

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Some history<\/span><\/h3>\n

In ancient Greece and Rome, people were enjoying sweets, mainly cookies and cakes. For many centuries, sweets were a luxury commodity due to the fact that they were made from cane sugar. Sugar was combined with acacia resin for the first time in 19th century. After heating it transformed into sweets with a rubbery consistency.<\/p>\n

The first fruit jelly was made in 1922 and it had the shape of a teddy bear. Today, jellies can take any shape, depending on the vision of their designer. The manufacturing process begins with a design, a hand-drawn project, which is then scanned into a computer. In the next step, special stamps that allow to create molds for jelly beans are created. The jellies we eat today are mainly made of pork gelatine of various flavours and colours.<\/p>\n

So what do sol-GELS have to do with jellies?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Apart from the GEL in the name, it has little to do with jellies. The sol-gel method is a versatile technique that is used to synthesise both amorphous and crystalline oxide materials. The sol-gel method, is based on the slow dehydration of the hydroxide sol of a given material, which turns the sol into a gel.<\/p>\n

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Ryc.1. Processes in the sol-gel technology<\/p>\n

Source: Edyta Ozi\u0119b\u0142o, Optical properties of thin silica layers produced with the sol-gel method,
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The sol-gel method is often used to obtain glass coatings, including hybrid coatings (these are organic-inorganic coatings with interesting optical properties).<\/p>\n

The last thing – hydroGELS, maybe they have more to do with jellies?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Hydrogels are colloidal systems in which the dispersed phase is water, while the dispersing (forming) phase consists of mainly natural or artificial polymers (or their modifications). The most common example of such a colloidal system is gelatin jelly. So as you can see, hydrogels have more to do with jellies \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Hydrogels are flexible, spongy materials, mostly made of water.<\/p>\n

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Ryc. 2. Hydrogels<\/p>\n

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Source: https:\/\/www.aptekarzpolski.pl\/wiedza\/hydrozele-w-preparatyce-farmaceutycznej<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

Hydrogels are materials with a very wide range of applications, icluding<\/p>\n