Contents 2022

January/February 2022

• Shifts in formulation types for biopesticides and biostimulants
• Parallel developments
• Granular formulations
• Liquid formulations
• Encapsulation
• Nano-enabled formulations
• Literature
• “Formulation is the crucial issue”
• Role of adjuvants
• Concluding remarks
• Literature cited / further reading or listening
• News in brief
• Adjuvants recommended to overcome glyphosate supply chain issues
• Cuticular transpiration of leaf and fruit cuticles not affected by alcohol ethoxylates
• A simple method for predicting alkane-water partition coefficients of surfactants
• Nonylcyclohexanol ethoxylates, a green alternative of nonylphenol ethoxylate
• Mineral oil added to fungicide tank mixture for the control of citrus black spot
• Rosmarinus officinalis L. essential oil encapsulated in new microemulsion formulations
• Patents in brief
• Herbicide combinations with L-enantiomer of glufosinate
• Solvent-surfactant mixture inhibits 2,4-D crystallization
• Overview of recent patent publications with brief summary
• Symposia abstracts: North Central Weed Science Society Annual Meeting
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• Item of the month: Co-formulants affect skin and glove barrier protection against organophosphate insecticides
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online

March/April 2022

• Adjuvant science: providers and consumers
• Consumers of adjuvant science
• Providers of adjuvant science
  Universities and governmental institutes  |  Adjuvant producers  |  Pesticide producers  |  Extension specialists  |  Publishers
• Future developments and the effects on science
• News in brief
• Carbohydrate-based surfactants reviewed
• Combined treatments of abamectin with three inert dusts for the control of Callosobruchus chinensis on cowpea seeds
• Effects of encapsulated and non-encapsulated thyme essential oil on the control of Sitophilus zeamais in stored maize grains
• Pickering emulsion stabilized by hydrolyzed starch
• Enhancing pesticide droplet deposition through O/W Pickering emulsion
• Improved deposition and retention by alginate and alkyl polyglucoside-based micelles loaded with acetamiprid
• Patents in brief
• Alkyl polyglycerylamine surfactants
• Dispersible concentrates
• Weak acids plus their salts reduce isomeric transformation of lambda-cyhalothrin
• Stable clethodim compositions
• Pyrethroid ZC formulations
• Overview of recent patent publications with brief summary
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• Item of the month: Hooded broadcast sprayer for particle drift reduction
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online

May/June 2022

• Computer plays increasing role in formulation design
• Computing power
• Advanced statistics
• Sparse data
• Partnerships
• Pitfalls
• Keep an eye on
• Full automation
• Solvent blend discovery accelerated
• Literature cited / further reading
• News in brief
• Ethyl cellulose nanoparticles as stabilizers for Pickering emulsions
• Green nanopesticide delivery systems using sophorolipids
• Saponins from Albizia procera extract: surfactant activity and preliminary analysis
• Saponins as natural emulsifiers for nanoemulsions
• Use of marine raw materials in the formulation of innovative plant protection products
• Stimuli-responsive polysaccharide hydrogels in delivery systems
• Nanoparticle deposition pattern during colloidal droplet evaporation; the critical role of bound water
• Patents in brief
• Glufosinate plus dimethenamid-P microemulsion
• Multifunctional built-in and tank-mix adjuvant compositions
• Overview of recent patent publications with brief summary
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• Item of the month: Polyethylene glycol-free surfactants to tackle oxidation processes
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online

July/August 2022

• Developments with natural emulsifiers in food and beverages may inspire agchem formulators
• Defining ecologically sound emulsifiers
• Current use of natural emulsifiers
• Categories of natural emulsifiers
• Proteins
• Plant proteins as emulsifier
• Polysaccharides
• Phospholipids
• Saponins
• Biosurfactants produced by fermentation
• Organic and mineral particles
• Production
• Perspectives
• Literature cited
• News in brief
• Review of ionic amphiphilic lignin applications
• Importance of chemical polymorphism in modern crop protection
• Study of the spontaneous nano-emulsification process
• Chitosan-coated phytoglycogen for preparation of biocompatible Pickering emulsion
• Nonionic surfactant mixtures and crop safety
• Patents in brief
• Cyclodextrin improves performance of fatty acid herbicides and insecticides
• Epyrifenacil-based herbicide compositions
• In-situ polymerisation encapsulation of a.i. microparticles in aqueous suspension improves crop safety
• Overview of recent patent publications with brief summary
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• Item of the month: Back to the future: fatty acids for soft materials
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online

September/October 2022

• Formulating with deep eutectic solvents
• Nature of deep eutectic solvents
• All kinds of solvent alternatives
• Greenness
• Various applications
• Stable emulsions
• Viscosity
• Prediction of properties
• Natural deep eutectic solvents
• Bottom line
• Literature cited / further reading
• News in brief
• Potassium borate as volatility-reducing agent for dicamba
• Effect of 2,4-D formulation on volatility under field conditions
• A new formulation for biopesticides
• Viscoelastic micellar system of lipopeptide biosurfactant and octadecyl trimethyl ammonium chloride
• Janus silica nanocarriers for enhancing foliage retention
• Biological preparation of surfactant-like peptides
• Patents in brief
• Biodegradable microcapsules
• Alternative to APG surfactants in concentrated glyphosate compositions
• Different crystal shapes of pyroxasulfone for different soil types
• Overview of recent patent publications with brief summary
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• Item of the month: Incorporation of hydrophobic payloads in superhydrophilic hydrogels
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online

November/December 2022

• Cellulose adjuvants and formulation components
• Cellulose
• Cellulose fibrils
• Cellulose ethers
• Conclusions
• Commercially produced microfibrillated cellulose
• Literature cited
• News in brief
• Comparison of a synthetic surfactant and a natural emulsifier for hazelnut oil nanoemulsions
• Application of a biosurfactant as an efficient synergist of sweet potato foliar fertiliser
• Effects of alkyl polyglycol ether structure on microemulsion phase behaviour
• Chitosan nanocarriers mediated dsRNA delivery in gene silencing for Helicoverpa armigera biocontrol
• Controlled-release alginate-bentonite polymer gel granules of emamectin benzoate
• Cytotoxicity of nonionic alkyl ethoxylate surfactants to human corneal and skin cells
• Patents in brief
• Microcapsules that do not break down into microplastics
• Glufosinate droplets with improved retention
• Overview of recent patent publications with brief summary
• Symposia abstracts: Entomology 2022 and the 75^th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• Item of the month: Optional strategies for low-risk and non-risk applications of fungal pesticides to avoid solar ultraviolet damage
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online

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