The Nanomaterial Research Strategy describes the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) strategy for conducting and supporting research to understand the potential human health and ecological implications from exposure to manufactured nanomaterials, and how nanotechnology can be used sustainably in environmental protection applications.
EPA’s Nanomaterial Research Program is designed to provide information to support nanomaterial safety decisions. The eight key science questions described in the strategy are intended to help decision makers answer the following questions:
- What nanomaterials, in what forms, are most likely to result in environmental exposure?
- What particular nanomaterial properties may raise toxicity concerns?
- Are nanomaterials with these properties likely to be present in environmental media or biological systems at concentrations of concern?
For more information, go to the EPA Nanotechnology Research website.
Submitted by Kevin Lindstrom Liaison Librarian for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
