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Nature Nanotechnology 4, 11 (1 January 2009) | doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.384

Top down bottom up: Classified research

Researchers from the US military have teamed up with academics from Europe to propose a new method of classification for nanomaterial risk. How do you bring a geochemist, an ecotoxicologist, two decision-scientists and two risk-assessors together to develop a system for classifying nanomaterial risk? Igor Linkov of the United States Army Research and Development Center started by organizing a NATO workshop “Risk, Uncertainty and Decision Analysis for Non-Chemical Stressors” in Lisbon, Portugal in April 2007.