New approach to testing health, environmental effects of nanoparticles
Monday, April 8, 2013 - 16:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Earlier efforts to determine the health and environmental effects of the nanoparticles that are finding use in hundreds of consumer products may have produced misleading results by embracing traditional toxicology tests that do not take into account the unique properties of bits of material so small that 100,000 could fit in the period at the end of this sentence.