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  • A consumer’s guide to nanotechnology

    How cool is this: A nanotech-enabled labcoat to protect the user against… well, nanomaterials presumably, amongst other things!  The labcoat—which uses Nanotex technology to make it stain resistant—is part of a major update to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies Consumer Products Inventory that tracks manufacture-identified ...
    Posted to Andrew Maynard (Weblog) by andrew.maynard@physics.org on August 21, 2008
  • And now for something completely different…

    Time for a nano-break.  I’ll be taking a break from the SafeNano blog over the next three weeks, as my family try to convince me there really is life beyond nanotechnology (I’m sceptical).  In the meantime, I couldn’t resist giving loyal readers something to think about in my absence:When was the first intentionally engineered nanoscale ...
    Posted to Andrew Maynard (Weblog) by andrew.maynard@physics.org on July 26, 2008
  • Late lessons from early warnings

    As the rate of technological progress advances, are we learning the lessons of past successes and failures?  And are we applying these lessons successfully to nanotechnology? In 2001, the European Environment Agency (EEA) published a seminal report on developing emerging technologies responsibly.  Through a series of fourteen case studies spanning ...
    Posted to Andrew Maynard (Weblog) by andrew.maynard@physics.org on July 20, 2008