ABSTRACT
The entrapment of various materials such as avors, living cells, and pharmaceutical compounds within capsules for a wide range of applications is of considerable importance in the pharmaceutical, chemical, and food industries, as well as in agriculture, biotechnology, and medicine.14,19 As a result microencapsulation has been extensively studied since the early to mid-twentieth century.26,32
Encapsulation is dened as the process involving the complete envelopment of a core material in a membrane, using different techniques.14,34 The main aims of encapsulation are the immobilization, the protection, the stabilization, and the control of the release of the entrapped compound.4
