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Alehosseini E, Jafari S M, Shahiri Tabarestani H. Evaluating the performance of artificial neural networks (ANNs) for predicting the physical, rheological, and colorimetric properties of chitosan nanoparticles (CSNPs). FSCT 2021; 18 (113) :77-90
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Evaluating the performance of artificial neural networks (ANNs) for predicting the physical, rheological, and colorimetric properties of chitosan nanoparticles (CSNPs)
Elham Alehosseini1 , Seid Mahdi Jafari 2, Hoda Shahiri Tabarestani3
1- Department of Food Materials and Process Design Engineering, Faculty of Food Science and Technology, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran
2- Professor, Department of Food Materials and Process Design Engineering, Faculty of Food Science and Technology, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran , Smjafari@gau.ac.ir
3- Assistant Professor, Department of Food Chemistry, Faculty of Food Science and Technology, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran
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The formation of chitosan nanoparticles (CSNPs) with a high stability still remains a main challenge in terms of applying the produced particles in the field of nutraceutical and drug delivery systems. Giving that there are many variables parameters which could affect the size, morphology, and other properties of fabricated CSNPs during ionic gelation process along with using sodium tripolyphosphate (STPP) as the most common cross-linking agent. In this study, after the production of CSNPs under the influence of various independent variables such as chitosan (CS) concentration, STPP concentration, and CS to STPP ratio, in the next step, the physical, rheological, turbidity, and colorimetric properties of the produced nanoparticles were measured. Finally, two artificial neural networks (ANNs) – multilayer perceptron (MLP) and radial basis function (RBF) – with a single hidden layer and different threshold functions, learning algorithms, etc. were employed to predict the CSNPs properties. The results revealed that MLP for the physical, viscosity, b*, and chroma properties and RBF for other properties – with a Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) learning algorithm of 1000 epochs – well predict them with a very high determination coefficients (R2) and low mean square error (MSE). R2 for nanoparticle size, poly dispersity index (PDI), zeta potential, viscosity, and electrical conductivity of CSNPs suspensions were determined 0.9881, 0.9534, 0.9431, 0.9212, and 0.9636, respectively. However, RBF with a single hidden layer comprising a set of 3 inputs, 4 neurons in hidden layer, and 3 outputs with the SigmoidAxon- SigmoidAxon transfer function presented the best results for predicting the L*, ΔE, and WI properties of CSNPs suspensions. In addition, R2 for L*, ΔE, and WI of CSNPs were calculated 0.9586, 0.9775, and 0.9457, respectively. Also, the flow behavior index of CSNPs suspensions was determined less than 1, which indicates the pseudoplastic behavior of the samples.
Keywords: Chitosan nanoparticles (CSNPs), Multilayer perceptron (MLP) model, Radial base function (RBF) model, Physical properties, Colorimetric parameters.
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Article Type: Original Research | Subject: Nanotechnology in the food industry (nanoparticles, nanocapsulations, nanomolies, etc.)
Received: 2020/12/23 | Accepted: 2021/02/6 | Published: 2021/07/1
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