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Nanotechnology: Consequences for Human Health & the Environment
Royal Society of Chemistry; 1 edition (July 18, 2007) | English | 0854042164 | 134 pages | PDF | 6.53 MB

Nanotechnology can be broadly described as developing or exploiting products at nanometre dimensions (i.e. as having one dimension less than 100 nanometres). Such materials have a larger surface area to volume ratio than conventional materials which provides them with an increased level of reactivity, and consequently, toxicity per unit mass. This book sets the subject into context by first of all describing the current range of products containing nano-materials and then looking at the consequences for the environment and human health relating to the introduction of nanoparticles and nano-tubes.