As Uses Grow, Tiny Materials' Safety Is Hard to Pin Down


As Uses Grow, Tiny Materials' Safety Is Hard to Pin Down -- Barnaby Feder  -- New York Times  -- November 3, 2003
Nanotechnology

When researchers fashion nanomaterials so small that their dimensions can be measured in molecules, the unusual and potentially valuable characteristics of those materials tend to show up immediately. But as businesses race to exploit those benefits, investors and policy makers are finding that pinpointing the potential environmental and health impacts of nanotechnology could take years.

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