Publicaciones etiquedatas ‘ciclodextrinas’
28
septiembre
2011
Nanoestructuras comestibles (CD’s)
Azúcar, sal, alcohol y un poco de casualidad dirigió a un grupo de investigadores de la Universidad de Northwestern a descubir una nueva clase de nanoestructuras, que además son comestibles.
 Sugar, salt, alcohol and a little serendipity led a Northwestern University research team to discover a new class of nanostructures that could be used for gas storage and food and medical technologies. And the compounds are edible. |
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| The porous crystals are the first known all-natural metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) that are simple to make. Most other MOFs are made from petroleum-based ingredients, but the Northwestern MOFs you can pop into your mouth and eat, and the researchers have. | |
| «They taste kind of bitter, like a Saltine cracker, starchy and bland,» said Ronald A. Smaldone, a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern. «But the beauty is that all the starting materials are nontoxic, biorenewable and widely available, offering a green approach to storing hydrogen to power vehicles.» |
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