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Exposure to Engineered Nanomaterials in the Environment

  • 1st Edition - May 28, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Nelson Marmiroli, Jason C. White, Jing Song
  • Language: English

Exposure to Engineered Nanomaterials in the Environment provide a new, holistic framework for testing and evaluating the potential benefits and risks of engineered nanomater… Read more

Description

Exposure to Engineered Nanomaterials in the Environment provide a new, holistic framework for testing and evaluating the potential benefits and risks of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs), including their potential socioeconomic impacts, ethical issues and consumers’ expectations and fears. The book covers nanomaterial presence in various environments, agroecosystems and other areas within the human sphere of actions. The book includes sections on (i) Chemical, physical and biological properties, (ii) Presence and diffusion of ENMs in human environments, agriculture, food and drug products, (iii) ENMs as a pillar in biological and medical research, and (iv) Social and regulatory issues emerging from years of application.

The book is designed to increase awareness to key end-users and stakeholders, including food producers and processors, industry, representatives of society and consumers, and those looking to implement an accurate and effective risk analysis procedure that promotes the sustainable use of nanotechnology.

Key features

  • Assesses both the positive and negative impacts of engineered nanomaterials in the environment
  • Shows how engineered nanomaterials are used in agricultural environments, food products, drugs and cosmetics
  • Discusses the unique properties of a range of engineered nanomaterials that lead to their environmental effects

Readership

Researchers in academic and government working in the areas of materials science, environmental policy, and agriculture

Table of contents

Part I: Synthesis and characterisation of ENMs

1. Procedures for synthesis of ENMs

2. Methods for characterisation, chemical and physical properties

3. Standardisation of testing

Part 2: ENMs in the environment

4. Natural environments

5. Agricultural environments

6. Food products, drugs, cosmetics

Part 3: ENMs in biology and medicine

7. Toxicology in model organisms, risk assessment

8. Methods for toxicological studies, in vivo, in vitro, genome wide

9. Strategies for drug delivery

10. ENMs in therapy

Part 4: Social and regulatory aspects of ENMs

11. Social and economic impacts

12. Consumers acceptance

13. Ethics and regulation

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 29, 2019
  • Language: English

About the editors

NM

Nelson Marmiroli

Prof. Nelson Marmiroli is a full professor of Recombinant DNA Technologies, and of Food Production and Genetic Resources at the University of Parma. Prof. Marmiroli coordinates a team including over 20 among full professors, associate professors, research associates,technicians, post-docs, PhD fellows. His current research topics are focused on application of environmental biotechnologies for sustainability; phytoremediation, bioremediation, emerging contaminants (nanomaterials), interaction of plants with pollutants, genetic and molecular bases of genotype-environment interactions in different organisms (proteomic, genomic, transcriptomic analyses); molecular traceability of food supply chains for food safety and authenticity protection. Milton P. Gordon Award for Excellence in Phytoremediation, Editorial Board of the International Journal of Phytoremediation.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Recmbinant DNA Technologies, Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Italy

JW

Jason C. White

Dr. Jason C. White is vice director and chief analytical chemist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES). Dr. White received his Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology from Cornell University in 1997. After one year as a post-doctoral associate at CAES, Dr. White joined the Department of Soil and Water in 1998. In 2009, he assumed the department head position in Analytical Chemistry and in 2013, was also appointed as vice director. The CAES Analytical Chemistry Department provides sample analysis to all other state agencies, and also participates in the FDA Food Emergency Response Network (FERN) Chemistry Cooperative Agreement Program (cCAP). Dr. White also has research programs in two separate areas: nanomaterial contamination of agricultural crops, as well as the phytoremediation of soils contaminated with persistent organic pollutants. Dr. White also has adjunct faculty appointments at the University of Texas−El Paso, University of Massachusetts, the University of New Haven, and Post University. Managing Editor of the International Journal of Phytoremediation.
Affiliations and expertise
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, CT, USA

JS

Jing Song

Jing Song has been an assistant professor at the Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, since 2023. She earned her PhD in Natural Geography from Nanjing University in the same year. Her research focuses on environmental geography, with particular emphasis on the sources, distribution, and ecological impacts of microplastics, especially microplastic fibers. Song has contributed to major projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and has published in leading journals including Journal of Hazardous Materials and ACS ES&T Water.
Affiliations and expertise
State Key Laboratory of Regional and Urban Ecology, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China

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