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Article: Nanoparticles: health effects--pros and cons.(Review)
- Article from:
- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
- Author:
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With the advent of nanotechnology, the prospects for using engineered nanomaterials with diameters of
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The advent of nanotechnology is considered to be the biggest engineering innovation since the Industrial Revolution. Proponents of this new technology promise to reengineer the man-made world, molecule by molecule, sparking a wave of novel revolutionary commercial products from machines to medicine (Aston 2005). This "industrial revolution" in molecular manufacturing will alter the relationship of materials so profoundly that this change may produce both positive and negative effects on health and the environment. The worldwide market for products produced ...
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