Desarrollo de nanopartículas a partir de crustáceos para eliminar contaminantes tipo pesticidas usados en la agricultura y que por acción de la lluvia estos lixiviados llegan a los mantos acuíferos, ríos y lagos.

When Flavio Campagnaro bought brewing equipment from an auction at a closing Molson factory in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, it wasn’t with the intention of brewing up batches of homemade beer. Instead he’s using the drums too cook up something far more potent: pesticides.

Campagnaro is the vice president of manufacturing for ViveNano, a biotech startup that’s hoping its technology can help diminish residual chemicals in agricultural runoff. Traditional pesticides, including those used on organic crops, require what ViveNano’s CEO Keith Thomas calls a “soup of chemicals” to become water-soluble streams capable of killing weeds and other pests.

And you likely know the rest of the story – it rains, and these chemicals drain from the fields into groundwater, rivers, lakes, and streams, where they wreak havoc on the ecosystem, drinking water, and oceans.