Table 4 DS and PDI of freshly prepared CT-CTO-NEs in sodium alginate solution.

From: Influence of droplet size on the antibacterial efficacy of citral and citronella oil nanoemulsions in polysaccharide coated fresh-cut apples

Response

Model suitability (R2) (%)

Model equation

Optimal (w/w)

Optimal value

PDI

92.0578

\(\begin{aligned} {\text{PDI}} & = 0.388934 - 0.0168642 \times {\text{X}}1 \times 0.0787565 \times {\text{X}}2 \\ & \quad + \;0.00016574 \times {\text{X}}1^{2} + 0.00042487 \times {\text{X}}1{\text{X}}2 \\ \end{aligned}\)

X1 = 50.87%

X2 = 0.03%

0.04

DS

93.3799

\(\begin{aligned} {\text{DS}} & = 957.682 + 1795.82 \times {\text{X}}2 - 39.5736 \times {\text{X}}1 \\ & \quad + \;15.5337 \times {\text{X}}1{\text{X}}2 + 0{ }.391601 \times {\text{X}}2^{2} \\ \end{aligned}\)

X1 = 49.53%

X2 = 0.05%

86.54 nm