This is why I was very excited to hear that a lecture addressing nanotoxicology would be delivered. Finally, answers to all my waiting questions. Would nanotechnology be so dangerous to the environment that bioaccumulation and biomagnifications could be involved? Were there processes that already existed to deal with successfully getting these particles out of ecosystems? How could we prevent species and even entire ecosystems from being exposed to them? I only need eight more words to finish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotoxicology
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t716100760
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16002369
http://books.google.com/books?id=Qj-efyZNKA0C&dq=nanotoxicology&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=XVieRntOx&sig=w2cH3sKK68k9bPTdP8Ux4xeNy8M&hl=ko&ei=zQZgSrTEIMiCtgeZt7TZDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/ChemScience/Volume/2009/04/growth_nanotox.asp
Nanoparticles can seep into swindling water supplies
risk!Research is still going on for nanotoxicology.
Ever since learning about nanotechnology in my AP Environmental Science class, I have often wondered about nanotechnology’s good, bad, and ugly. On one hand, nanotechnology offers us solutions to problems that would otherwise be too complicated, expensive, or even impossible to handle. This is especially applicable to the environment and fixing the messes we have created for ourselves such as pollution. On the other hand, since nanotechnology is a field still being researched yet still widely used and readily available, there exists a very real threat that nanotechnology could present for us in the future- another mess we would have to clean up. Many critics are afraid that it is nanotechnology’s size that is both its mark of distinction and its hazardous downfall. Because it is so small, any nanoproduct accidentally being sprayed, leaked, etc. into either the human or natural environment could have disastrous consequences. Furthermore, it would be an incredibly difficult process for scientists to remove these nanoparticles from wherever they settle. Thus, pursuing nanotoxicology is not only important, but imperative.