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Materials From Nanotoxicology Workshop Now Online

Materials from the March 16 Nanotoxicology Workshop at the University City Science Center are now available here. 

For access to presentations please click the name of each presenter.  Muzykantov; Penning; Bonnell; Murray; Nadadur

For links to articles that were included in the event information packet, please click onto one of the following links:  NIST, Nanotechnology Law ReportNIOSH , NNI, NIEHS, NanoHealth Enterprise, National Academies Report.

Please click onto the links listed here for notes to breakout sessions:  Aydin Tozeren Breakout SessionChuck Haas Breakout SessionNanotherapeutics Workshop Summary, Trevor Penning Breakout Session 

For funding information please click the following links:  EPA, NIH (PA 09-267), NIH (PA 09-266).

Why Is Small So Big?

Nanotechnology deals with products and processes that are measured in almost unbelievably small increments called “nanometers”—one billionth of a meter.

At the nanoscale, materials differ from larger objects in their physical, chemical and biological properties; therefore, they lend themselves to new and improved materials, systems and devices. Nanotechnology is behind the development of such diverse advancements as:

  1. Drug Delivery
  2. Biofiltration and Separation sciences
  3. Improved coatings for medical devices

Thanks to rapid advances in this exciting new field, we now have the tools and talents to manipulate materials on the molecular scale—a technology literally changing the world as we know it.