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Chemistry In Pictures

Chemistry in Pictures: Sugar work

by Craig Bettenhausen
September 14, 2023

 

A cool-brown goo with white and cream sheets coming off of it.
Credit: Submitted by Criss DCosta

Competitive baking is a hot category of television, and one skill that regularly trips up TV bakers is making dainty decorations using melted sugar. Criss DCosta, a PhD student in Ruchi Anand’s lab at the Indian Institute of Technology, takes sugar work to a whole other level, synthesizing derivatives of sugar molecules and exploring their influence on structural biochemistry. She found this otherworldly formation while drying a batch of isomalt, a blend of two sugar alcohols commonly used in low-calorie confections.

Submitted by Criss DCosta

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