Nanotechnologies for water environment applications
Sponsored by the Nanotechnology Task Committee of the Environmental Council of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE. This report provides the current status of synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials, as well as the environmental effects of nanotechnol…
The world is facing great challenges in meeting rising demands for basic commodities, finished goods, technologies and services while minimizing the impact of human activities on Earth's global environment and climate. Nanotechnology has emerged as a multidisciplinary research f…
Offers views on how new legal institutions should be formed to address the uncertain risks of nanotechnology.
"This book is about nanotechnology, very tiny substances that are manipulated to act in all sorts of extraordinary ways, and that many think have or are about to usher in the next industrial revolution. The focus of the book is how society can continue to reap economic and other…