Researchers Create New Organic Gel Nanomaterials

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Press Release, 28 Jun 2006 Researchers have created organic gel nanomaterials that could be used to encapsulate pharmaceutical, food, and cosmetic products and to build 3-D biological scaffolds for tissue engineering. Using olive oil and six other liquid solvents, the scientists added a simple enzyme to chemically activate a sugar that changed the liquids to organic gels. Read more