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Nature Nanotechnology 3, 322 - 323 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.145

Subject Category: Environmental, health and safety issues

Nanoecotoxicology: Environmental risks of nanomaterials

Martin Scheringer1

  1. Martin Scheringer is in the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Switzerland.
    e-mail: scheringer@chem.ethz.ch


Rising production and use of engineered nanomaterials increases the likelihood of environmental exposure. A preliminary modelling study shows that quantitative risk assessment is possible but a large knowledge gap still exists.

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