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• Carbon nanotubes: the new asbestos? Not if we act fast.

  Mix carbon nanotubes and asbestos together (metaphorically) and you get an explosive mix—at least if news coverage of the latest publication coming out of Professor Ken Donaldson’s team is anything to go by. The research— published on-line today in Nature Read More... Posted 21 May 2008 00:19 by andrew.maynard@physics.org | 6 Comments Filed under: Hazard, Nanomaterials, Nanotechnology, Risk, Policy, MSDS, Carbon Nanotubes, Safety, Toxicology, Consumer Products, Asbestos

• Invest in nano applications, and the risks will take care of themselves?

  I have on my desk a plastic bag of carbon nanotubes—2 grams of dry, 60% purity single walled carbon nanotubes to be precise—bought from Cheap Tubes Inc. for the princely sum of $80. And I am wondering what to do with them. Despite the cosy assurances Read More... Posted 04 November 2007 22:29 by andrew.maynard@physics.org | 3 Comments Filed under: Nanomaterials, Risk, MSDS, Carbon Nanotubes, Congress, Safety, Toxicology