The Vireo Advisors blog brings you the latest news and developments in safe, sustainable and bio-based materials and products including novel foods and sustainable nanomaterials.
Shampoo Bottle Nano-Makeover: Good to the Last Drop
Have you ever went to wash your hair, only to find that your can't quite squeeze the last of your shampoo from the bottle?
"Nanofish" Could be Used as Targeted Medicine Delivery
Jinxing Li of the University of California, San Diego, along with his colleagues, have created metallic nanofish which are 100 times smaller than a grain of sand and could soon be used to guide medicine to certain areas of the body.
API and MYBiomass sign Joint-Development Agreement for the Production of Nanocellulose for Downstream Applications
American Process, Inc. (API) and MYBiomass Sdn. Bhd. (MYBiomass) announced in a press release this week that they will work together to produce nanocellulose and cellulosic sugars from oil palm empty fruit-bunches, a lignocellulosic feedstock common in Malaysia.
The U.S. EPA Has Passed Its Rule Requiring One Time Reporting and Recordkeeping for Businesses that Make, Import or Use Nanomaterials
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its final rule: ‘Chemical Substances When Manufactured or Processed as Nanoscale Materials, Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Reporting and Record Keeping Requirements’ in the Federal Register today.
2017 Gordon Research Conference: Apply Now!
Applications for 2017 The Gordon Research Conference (GRC) are being accepted now through May 21, 2017.