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Nanotechnology and the Environment provides the fundamental basis needed to assess and understand the life cycle of nanomaterials. It begins with a general explanation of nanomaterials, their properties, and their uses and describes the processes used to manufacture nanoscale materials. Subsequent chapters furnish information on the analysis of nanomaterials in the environment and their fate and transport, including the effects of wastewater treatment on nanomaterials. The book discusses possible risks to human health and the environment and the environment, and describes developing regulations to manage those risks.

Features

• Focuses on six of the most common nanomaterials (titanium dioxide, zero valent iron, silver, carbon black, fullerenes, and carbon nanotubes) to provide a cohesive presentation of issues
• Follows those materials from their manufacture and use to their fate and transport in the environment and possible consequences of exposure
• Discusses frameworks, such as Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), for evaluating the balance between risk and reward as nanomaterials are manufactured, used, and released to the environment
• Describes regulations evolving around the world as a basis for regulatory compliance and control of possible risks