Environmental Risks of Nanotechnology: National Nanotechnology Initiative Funding, 2000−2004

Nanotechnology : assessing the risks

technology, an enabling technology, and the next technological revolution. Even accounting for a certain level of hype, a heady combination of high-level investment, rapid scientific progress, and exponentially increasing commercialization point toward nanotechnology having a significant impact on society over the coming decades. However, enthusiasm over the rate of progress is being tempered i...

The National Nanotechnology Initiative: Present at the Creation

49 The United States, which made a major early commitment to nanotechnology in 2000, has been the world’s research leader, but as the promise of nanotechnology has grown the government commitment has flattened. We are concerned that lukewarm support for nanoscale science and engineering (S&E) puts U.S. technological leadership at risk and might prevent the country from realizing the full potent...

Nanotechnology: Health and environmental risks of nanomaterials - Research Strategy

Environmental Application of Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology is an emerging field that covers a wide range of technologies which are presently under development in nanoscale. It plays a major role in the development of innovative methods to produce new products, to substitute existing production equipment and to reformulate new materials and chemicals with improved performance resulting in less consumption of energy and materials and reduc...

Nanotechnology: Health and Environmental Risks of Nanoparticles - Research strategy