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Nanomaterials: Ecotoxicity, Safety, and Public Perception (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Nanomaterials: Ecotoxicity, Safety, and Public Perception (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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The environment is prone to suffer pollution and toxic insult from
generations of nanomaterials as well from accidental releases
during production, transportation, and disposal operations. The NMs
could interact with and cause adverse biological effects at
cellular, subcellular, and molecular levels. Assessing potential
environmental/ecological risks requires quality information on
transport and fate of nanoparticles in the environment, exposures
and vulnerabilities of organisms to the nanomaterials and standard
methods for assessing toxicity for aquatic or terrestrial organisms
and human health. The systematic risk characterization and
evaluation of the safety of nanomaterials require a
multidisciplinary approach and convergence of knowledge and efforts
from researchers and experts from toxicology, biotechnology,
materials science, chemistry, physics, engineering, and other
branches of life sciences. Although studies are beginning to appear
in the literature addressing the toxicity of various nanomaterials
and their potential for exposure, at this stage definitive
statements regarding the impacts of nanomaterials on human health
and the environment remain sketchy requiring an increased level of
precautions with regard to nanomaterials, as has happened with
other emerging contaminants and technologies (e.g., biotechnology).
The need for an increased level of understanding the perception of
risk and of benefits will vary and is likely to influence public,
regulatory, and non-governmental activities regarding risk and
benefit evaluations. Systematic identification and assessment of
the risks posed by any new technology are essential. A prudent,
integrated, and holistic approach is required to develop best
practices based on the scientific understanding about what we know
and what we don't know but need to know. Nanomaterials addresses
key issues of ecotoxicological actions and effects of nanomaterials
on life and environment, their threats, vulnerability, risks, and
public perception. The readers learn to read bad news objectively
and think about and search for ecological 'green' solutions to
current environmental and ecological problems with blue, grey,
brown, and red shades for building a sustainable ecosystem. It
shows how this molecular terrain is a common ground for
interdisciplinary research and education that will be an essential
component of science, engineering and technology in the future. The
book is divided into three sections. Section I includes general
topics related to ecotoxicity of nanomaterials to microbes, plants,
human and environment. Section 2 incorporates risks generated by
the use of nanomaterials. Section 3 discusss safety issues and the
public.
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