Technology : Nanotechnology

This important book focuses on the synthesis and fabrication of nanostructures and nanomaterials, but also includes properties and applications of nanostructures and nanomaterials, particularly inorganic nanomaterials. It provides balanced and comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals and processing techniques with regard to synthesis, characterization, properties, and applications of nanostructures and nanomaterials. Both chemical processing and lithographic techniques are presented in a systematic and coherent manner for the synthesis and fabrication of 0-D, 1-D, and 2-D nanostructures, as well as special nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes and ordered mesoporous oxides. The book will serve as a general introduction to nanomaterials and nanotechnology for teaching and self-study purposes. more...

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Offers practical guidelines for starting and running a nanotechnology business. Exploring the relationship between new technology development and the creation of new businesses, this book discusses business structures, business plans, financing issues and approaching, finding facilities and employees, budgeting, and other operational issues. more...

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Presents various methods for evaluating health, safety, and environmental nanotechnology risks. This book provides several approaches for managing risks in occupational environments, including screening approaches, while offering general, practical guidelines for safety when working with nanoscale materials at the research stage. more...

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Nanotechnology is one of the fastest growing technological fields of the 21st century. Nanotechnologies will impact numerous industries, including daily consumer products, health care, energy, and transportation. However, the success of the emerging nanotechnology applications will depend on dynamic development of nanomaterial toxicology, risk and exposure assessment. Little is known about the potential adverse health and ecological effects of exposure to engineered nanomaterials, the main components of many nanotechnologies. Concerns are coming from the initial toxicological studies as well as the research and epidemiological reports on ultrafine particle toxicity. This book provides a summary of the state-of-art knowledge on nanomaterials and nanoparticles ??? toxicological issues; risk assessment and control measures; public participation and educational/ethical issues; and lastly, institutional mechanisms and status reports from various countries. This book includes a summary of the most important gaps in knowledge, needs for research, and collaborations in the field of nanotechnology regarding safe application and development. more...

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'This valuable collection provides many insights into nanotechnology's impacts.' Chris Phoenix Director of Research Center for Responsible Nanotechnology Nanotechnology - technology at the molecular level - is held out by many as the Holy Grail for creating a trillion dollar economy and solving problems from curing cancer to reprocessing waste into products and building superfast computers. Yet as with GMOs many view nanotech as a high risk genie in a bottle that once uncorked has the potential to cause unpredictable perhaps irreversible environmental and public health disasters. With the race to bring products to market there is pressing need to take stock of the situation and to have a full public debate about this new technological frontier. Including contributions by renowned figures such as Roland Clift K. Eric Drexler and Arpad Pusztai this is the first global overview of the state of nanotech and society in Europe the USA Japan and Canada examining the ethics the environmental and public health risks and the governance and regulation of this most promising and potentially most dangerous of all technologies. more...

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