Organic gel nanomaterials! Scientists have created this new material and can be used for encapsulating pharmaceutical, food, and cosmetic products. It can also help build 3-D biological scaffolds for tissue engineering.
Liquids like olive oil and six other liquid solvents are transformed into organic gels, by adding a simple enzyme, which chemically activate a sugar that in turn changes the liquids.
Jonathan Dordick, the Howard P. Isermann ’42 Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute said,
We are using the building blocks provided by nature to create new nanomaterials that are completely reversible and environmentally benign… The importance of this finding is the ability to use the same naturally occurring enzyme both to create chemically functional organogels and to reverse the process and break down these gels into their biologically compatible building blocks.
Via: Science Daily
