Whey protein adsorption and aggregation on modified stainless steel surfaces in relation to fouling
This thesis focuses on the possibilities to reduce fouling by 1.Modifying the stainless steel surface. For this purpose, surfaces modified with state-of-the-art material science techniques, such as SiF3+ and MoS22+ ion implantation, Diamond-like Carbon (DLC) sputtering, DLC, DLC-Si-O and SiOx Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapour Deposition (PECVD), autocatalytic Ni-P-PTFE and silica coating, have been