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Workplace Exposure To Nanomaterials and The Question Of Will Nano Be The Next Asbestos

The serious health risks posed by workplace exposure to nanomaterials share some striking similarities to those presented by asbestos. As with exposure to asbestos or other toxic dusts, workplace...

http://www.azonano.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=1869 | 27 Feb 2007
Toxic Threat From Nanotechnology - News

Professor Ken Donaldson, from the University of Edinburgh has stated that nanotechnology poses a threat to humans by generating tiny toxic molecules that can enter the lungs. Posted October 21 2003

http://www.azonano.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=37 | 21 Oct 2003
Environmental Concerns Regarding Nanomaterials, Nanoparticles and Molecular Machines

Recent debate in ecological circles has focused on what effects some nanotechnology products might have on the environment and humans. This debate has centred on possible effects that nanomaterials...

http://www.azonano.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=1074 | 10 Dec 2004
Carbon Nanotubes: Asbestos Look, Asbestos Risks?

Concerns have been raised in the scientific literature that carbon nanotubes (CNT) might behave similar like asbestos fibres when inhaled into the lungs, implying that they might be causing...

http://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=14509 | 4 Nov 2009
Big Risk for Nanotechnology as Some Carbon Nanotubes May Cause Asbestos Related Diseases

A major study published today in Nature Nanotechnology suggests some forms of carbon nanotubes -- a poster child for the "nanotechnology revolution" -- could be as harmful as asbestos if inhaled in...

http://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=6450 | 21 May 2008
Comparing Emerging NanoTechnology Risk Concerns With Disclosure Failures in Asbestos Litigation Losses

New Study Compares Emerging Nanomaterial Risk Concerns With Disclosure Failures That Preceded Billions of Dollars in Asbestos Litigation Losses; Reform Roadmap for FASB, SEC to be Laid Out....

http://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=12065 | 15 Jun 2009
Report Examines High Aspect Ratio Nanoparticles Should Raise Same Concerns as Asbestos Fibres

A UK consortium of scientists, led by the Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh, has published a key report examining whether high aspect ratio nanoparticles (HARN) should raise the...

http://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=9561 | 23 Jan 2009
Nanomaterials - Securing the Future with Lessons from the Past

Nanotechnology has come to symbolize the next industrial revolution in America. The opportunities to reduce the scale of products, to make materials lighter and stronger, and to design machines that...

http://www.azonano.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=2447 | 15 Nov 2009
Dr Richard J. Lee

Dr. Lee specializes in the characterization of construction materials and bringing innovation to these projects by tailoring techniques to a specific problem. Selected projects consist of...

http://www.azonano.com/experts.aspx?iExpertID=91
Are Carbon Nanotubes the Next Asbestos?

In this video we traveled to North Carolina State University to meet Dr. Jamie Bonner to learn more about his research on the potential toxicity of carbon nanotubes.

http://www.azonano.com/nanotechnology-video-details.aspx?VidID=283

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