Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Nano-Material Toxicity

Increasing applications of nano materials in medicine, construction, textiles, computers, and other consumer goods have lead to increasing concerns of their effect on human health and ecology during synthesis, manufacturing, use, and disposal of nano-materials. Though much scientific progress has been made in nano material synthesis, manufacturing, and application in consumer goods and other sectors such as medicine, textiles and more, not much progress has been made in understanding the adverse effects of nano materials on human health and the environment. Physical, chemical, toxicological characteristics of these nano materials and their fate in the environment are important in understanding their adverse effects on the environmental and human health. This study is aimed at developing a preliminary framework for risk assessment (RA) and risk management (RM) of nano materials based on fundamental principles of chemistry, physics, toxicology, and other related disciplines.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Year

2009

Author dc:creator

• Bigdeli, Farah

Contributors dc:contributor

• Kura, Bhaskar
• Barbe, Donald
• Williams, Patricia

• toxicity
• nano
• green
• RA
• RM

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/921

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-1902