Probing in-mouth texture perception with a biomimetic tongue

Autor: Jean-Baptiste Thomazo, Christopher James Pipe, Benjamin Le Révérend, Elie Wandersman, Alexis Prevost, Javier Contreras Pastenes
Přispěvatelé: Liquides Ioniques et Interfaces Chargées (LI2C), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Jean Perrin (LJP), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Biologie Paris Seine (IBPS), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Journal of the Royal Society Interface
Journal of the Royal Society Interface, the Royal Society, 2019, 16 (159), pp.20190362. ⟨10.1098/rsif.2019.0362⟩
J R Soc Interface
ISSN: 1742-5689
1742-5662
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2019.0362⟩
Popis: An experimental biomimetic tongue–palate system has been developed to probe human in-mouth texture perception. Model tongues are made from soft elastomers patterned with fibrillar structures analogous to human filiform papillae. The palate is represented by a rigid flat plate parallel to the plane of the tongue. To probe the behaviour under physiological flow conditions, deflections of model papillae are measured using a novel fluorescent imaging technique enabling sub-micrometre resolution of the displacements. Using optically transparent Newtonian liquids under steady shear flow, we show that deformations of the papillae allow their viscosity to be determined from 1 Pa s down to the viscosity of water (1 mPa s), in full quantitative agreement with a previously proposed model (Lauga et al. 2016 Front. Phys. 4 , 35 ( doi:10.3389/fphy.2016.00035 )). The technique is further validated for a shear-thinning and optically opaque dairy system.
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