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  • New carbon nanotube study raises the health impact stakes

    From 2020 Science:I’m looking at an electron microscope image of a carbon nanotube - as I cannot show it here, you’ll have to imagine it.  It shows a long, straight, multi-walled carbon nanotube, around 100 nanometers wide and 10 micrometers long.  There is nothing particularly unusual about this.  What is unusual is that the ...
    Posted to Andrew Maynard (Weblog) by andrew.maynard@physics.org on March 26, 2009
  • Nanotechnology risk research, ten years on

    From 2020science: Ten years ago to the month, one of the first research reports detailing the challenges of ensuring the safe use of engineered nanomaterials was delivered to the UK Health and Safety Executive.  The report wasn’t for general release, and you’ll be hard pressed to find a copy of it in the public domain.  But as a ...
    Posted to Andrew Maynard (Weblog) by bryony@safenano.org on March 3, 2009