It’s Sunday night and you decide to make a quick run to the grocery store. You grab five bananas — one for each breakfast of the workweek. Then, at home, you immediately throw two of the bananas into ...

In 1990, physicist Donald Eigler used a scanning tunneling microscope to take 35 individual xenon atoms and arrange them to spell the name of his company, IBM. The world’s tiniest corporate logo made ...

Squinting at the fine print, a customer picked up a carton of berries and turned it over in a Tesco supermarket in North London one afternoon. The packaging appeared normal—lightweight, transparent, ...

Washington, DC — Engineered nanoscale materials (ENMs), which contain novel properties that offer potential benefits for use in food packaging, raise new safety evaluation challenges for regulators ...

WASHINGTON — Regulators are proposing that food companies that want to use tiny engineered particles in their packaging will have to provide extra testing data to show the products are safe. The Food ...

DUBLIN, Nov. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Nanotechnology for Food Packaging Market - A Global Market and Regional Analysis: Focus on (Product, Application, Industry Outlook, Region and Country ...

In a step toward sustainable packaging, Peak Nano, an Ohio-based producer of polymer nanoscale metamaterials, has announced a development program to create biodegradable nanolayered polymer films for ...

Peak Nano, a pioneer in polymer metamaterials for capacitor films, packaging, and other demanding applications, today ...

Nanotechnology has transformed several scientific and industrial sectors, including the food industry, where it has a role in food production, processing, storage, and quality control. Nanotechnology ...

The substance is a thin film of sodium montmorillonite, and when added as a coating to your everyday plastic food wrapper, it’s significantly stronger and dramatically reduces the transmission of ...

These issues are highly relevant and urgent as food safety remains an enduring concern worldwide, especially in less developed regions, with contaminated foods leading to widespread illnesses and even ...