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Nanoemulsions of Essential Oils for Sustainable Agriculture

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Tenable agricultural NEms

Definition

The chapter focuses on the utilization of Essential oil nano-emulsion have the potential to deliver lipophilic bioactive compounds for sustainable agriculture practices. Use not only increases productivity but is also environmental friendly.

Introduction

Over the past decade, agricultural research has been focused on the development of delivery systems that can encapsulate and protect the active ingredients and deliver efficiently. It can be done by a variety of methods like solubilization, novel coatings, hydrogels, microencapsulation, use of polymers, etc. However, all this is linked with multiple challenges such as targeted delivery, deposition phases of spray-atomization, and foliage surface retention and certain properties in regard to chemistry such as molecular size, conformation, bioavailability, etc. Therefore, designing novel formulations and using safer techniques or formulation approaches is the need of the hour.

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  1. Department of Agronomy, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India

    Pervinder Kaur

  2. Department of Chemistry, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India

    Gurinder Singh

  3. Department of Chemistry, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

    Khushwinder Kaur

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  1. Department of Chemistry, University of Pattimura, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia

    Chinnappan Baskar

  2. Centre for Nanofibers & Nanotechnology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Seeram Ramakrishna

  3. Manufacturing and Civil Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gvovik, Norway

    Angela Daniela La Rosa

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Kaur, P., Singh, G., Kaur, K. (2023). Nanoemulsions of Essential Oils for Sustainable Agriculture. In: Baskar, C., Ramakrishna, S., Daniela La Rosa, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Green Materials. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4921-9_9-1

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