The Risk Assessment of Nano-particles and Investigation of Their Environmental Impacts
Publish place: The Second International Conference on the Status of Safety, Health and Environment in Organizations
Publish Year: 1388
Type: Conference paper
Language: English
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IRANSAFETY02_212
Index date: 23 February 2010
The Risk Assessment of Nano-particles and Investigation of Their Environmental Impacts abstract
Nanotechnology is the science of creating, using and manipulating objects which have at least one dimension in range of 0.1 to 100 nanometers. In other words, nanotechnology is reconstructing a substance using its individual atoms and arranging them in a way that is desirable for our purpose. The main reason that nanotechnology has been attracting attentions is the unique properties that objects show when they are formed at nano-scale. These differing characteristics that nano-scale materials show compared to their nature-existing form is both useful in creating high quality products and dangerous when being in contact with body or spread in environment. In order to control and lower the risk of such nano-scale particles, the main following three topics should be considered: 1) First of all, these materials would cause long term diseases that may show their effects on body years after being penetrated in human organs and since this science has become recently developed in industrial scale not enough information is available about their hazards on body. 2) The second is that these particles can easily spread out in environment and remain in air, soil or water for very long time, besides their high ability to penetrate body skin and causing new kinds of diseases. 3) The third one is that to protect body and environment against the danger of these particles, the protective barriers must be finer than these small objects and such defenses are hard to accomplish. This paper will review, discuss and assess the risks that human and environment face as this new science develops at a high rate.
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The Risk Assessment of Nano-particles and Investigation of Their Environmental Impacts authors
N Nabhani
Dean of Abadan Institute of Technology
Amir Tofighi
Petroleum University of Technology, Abadan Institute of Technology, Abadan,Iran