Where do nanomaterials go in the body?

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Nov 02, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 1

Tiny, engineered nanomaterials can already be found in many consumer products, and have been hailed as having widespread future uses in areas ranging from medicine to industrial processes. However, little is known about what ...

Researcher looking for nano environmental footprint

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Jul 08, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Alberta biological sciences professor Gregg Goss is on the front line of a new effort to monitor the effects of nanomaterials on the environment.

EPA announces research strategy to study nanomaterials

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Sep 29, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today outlined a new research strategy to better understand how manufactured nanomaterials may harm human health and the environment. Nanomaterials are materials that are between approximately ...

Federal toxics disclosure law could help inform public of nanotechnology risks

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Feb 26, 2008 | 4 / 5 (4) | 0

The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) is releasing a first-time legal analysis that finds a key federal toxics reporting statute could be applied to production and commercialization of nanotechnology, providing the ...

World's first mandatory national nanotech rule pending

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Jan 28, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

The Canadian government reportedly is planning to release in February the world's first national regulation requiring companies to detail their use of engineered nanomaterials, according to environmental officials. The information ...

Revealing new applications for carbon nanomaterials in hydrogen storage

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Mar 12, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (4) | 5

An international research team, involving Professor Rajeev Ahuja at Uppsala University and researchers in the USA, set out to understand the mechanism behind the catalytic effects of carbon nanomaterials. Experimental and ...

Nanotech protection: Current safety equipment may not be adequate for nanoprotection

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Oct 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Writing in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Nanotechnology, Canadian engineers suggest that research is needed into the risks associated with the growing field of nanotechnology manufacture so that approp ...

Nanomaterials May Have Large Environmental Footprint

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Oct 22, 2008 | 3.6 / 5 (9) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Environmental gains derived from the use of nanomaterials may be offset in part by the process used to manufacture them, according to research published in a special issue of the Journal of Industrial Ec ...

Growing use of nanomaterials spurs research to investigate possible downsides

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Jun 13, 2008 | 4.5 / 5 (4) | 1

Potential risks from the use of nanomaterials will be explored by three Arizona State University engineering faculty in a project supported by a $400,000 grant from the U.S.Department of Energy Office of Biological and Environmental ...

Nanotech safety high on Congress' priority list

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Jan 16, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

The House Science and Technology Committee today introduced legislation that highlights the growing attention on Capitol Hill to the need to strengthen federal efforts to learn more about the potential environmental, health ...

A need for improved efficiency in nanomanufacturing

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Oct 28, 2008 | 4.5 / 5 (4) | 0

New research shows that environmental gains derived from the use of nanomaterials may be offset in part by the processes used to manufacture them. Research published in a special issue of the Journal of Industrial Ecology, a peer ...

Use of nanomaterials in food packaging poses regulatory challenges

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Jun 25, 2008 | 3.9 / 5 (12) | 0

[B]Report uses product scenarios to examine the oversight and regulatory pathways to commercialization[/B] Engineered nanoscale materials (ENMs), which contain novel properties that offer potential benefits for use in foo ...

Could nanotechnology revolutionize natural gas industry?

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

Oct 30, 2007 | 4.5 / 5 (10) | 0

Nanotechnology could revolutionize the natural gas industry across the whole lifecycle from extraction to pollution reduction or be an enormous missed opportunity, claim two industry experts writing in Inderscience's International Jo ...

As nanotech goes mainstream, 'toxic socks' raise concerns

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Apr 07, 2008 | 4.4 / 5 (39) | 5

Nanotechnology is now available in a store near you. Valued for it’s antibacterial and odor-fighting properties, nanoparticle silver is becoming the star attraction in a range of products from socks to bandages ...

Research measures movement of nanomaterials in simple model food chain

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

May 31, 2008 | 4.2 / 5 (13) | 1

New research in Nature Nanotechnology shows that while engineered nanomaterials can be transferred up the lowest levels of the food chain from single celled organisms to higher multicelled ones, the amount ...