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  • Navigating the minefield of airborne nanoparticle exposure

    From 2020science: Nanotechnology—like other emerging technologies—presents a dilemma:  If you're making new substances with uncertain health risks, how low is low enough when it comes to managing exposure? The issue is raised in the current edition of Nature Nanotechnology by Vladimir Murashov of the National Institute for Occupational ...
    Posted to Andrew Maynard (Weblog) by andrew.maynard@physics.org on December 4, 2008
  • Value-added nanotechnology

    Amidst the cacophony of debate swirling around the true meaning of nanotechnology, I head a voice or reason last week.  The voice was that of Dr. Bernd Sachweh of BASF, speaking at the European Aerosol Conference in Thessoloniki.I paraphrase, but the essence of Bernd’s point was this:‘Nano’ is not a thing or a product.  It has no ...
    Posted to Andrew Maynard (Weblog) by andrew.maynard@physics.org on September 3, 2008