Nanotechnology for Maximum Performance

Ensuring all yield enhancing products have maximum plant cell uptake through the process of endocytosis, achieved from incorporating nanoparticle technology throughout the season.

STEP 6

Incorporating Nano throughout the season

  1. What is nano technology and what does it do?  LEARN MORE
  2. How does nanoliquid® technology improve uptake?  LEARN MORE
  3. Why use it?  LEARN MORE

What is nano technology and what does it do?

A silica nanoparticle is a microscopic particle, slightly larger than a virus, that attracts nutrients or other active ingredients to itself, loading the particle both inside and out with large numbers of these molecules.  When mixed directly into a nutrient or other active ingredients that you desire to enhance the performance of, nanoparticles precisely deliver nutrient or other active ingredients into the plant more efficiently. 

How does nanoliquid® technology improve uptake?

Most crop inputs are absorbed via:

  • Diffusion
  • Active-Transport


Nanoliquid® technology makes an additional mechanism possible. 



Endocytosis - a mechanism cells use to rapidly absorb loaded nanoparticles i.e. "Trojan Horse." 

Diagram showing three modes of plant cell uptake: diffusion, ion transport, and endocytosis across the cell membrane.

Why use it?

A silica nanoparticle is a microscopic particle, slightly larger than a virus, that attracts nutrients or other active ingredients to itself, loading the particle both inside and out with large numbers of these molecules.  When mixed directly into a nutrient or other active ingredients that you desire to enhance the performance of, nanoparticles precisely deliver nutrient or other active ingredients into the plant more efficiently. 

Graph showing Nanobond 4Z increases active ingredient uptake for herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides.