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Nanotechnology Safety

  • 2nd Edition - November 21, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Ramazan Asmatulu, Waseem S. Khan, Eylem Asmatulu
  • Language: English

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The second edition of Nanotechnology Safety outlines the safety, regulatory, and environmental issues related to nanotechnology per industry, offering guidelines for risk assessment and discussion of the legal and social-economic issues related to nanotechnology. This book serves as a guide to implementing nanotechnology in compliance with the current safety regulations. This revised edition is updated and provides full details of the latest advances in nanomaterials and nanotechnology, including their industrial applications, toxicity levels, and protection systems.
Nanotechnology Safety remains an indispensable resource for academia and industries, offering updates on recent processes and nanosystems, the latest information about nanomanufacturing and their products for various industries, and information about legislative policies of nanomaterials, waste stream classifications, safety goals, processing facilities, and market developments for new products. The book provides researchers, academics, students, and policymakers with information for research into and the manufacturing of nanomaterials.

Key features

  • Offers updates on most recent advances, featuring new toxicity studies of nanomaterials, their impact in many industries, and providing future trends in nanomaterials and nanosafety and their emerging role in society
  • Discusses the fundamentals, ethics, and regulatory and environmental issues of nanosafety and how they shape the emerging industry and markets
  • Includes extensive lists of glossary terms, terminologies, and concepts needed for Material Data Safety Sheets
  • Discusses the relevance of nanosafety, including the “Homeland Security and Infrastructure Industries.” Includes nanotechnology risk assessment and delineates and quantifies the risk assessment of nanotechnology safety
  • Outlines the legal and intellectual property ramifications of nanotechnology and its impact on productivity and society

Readership

Chemists, chemical engineers and materials scientists in nanomaterial research and applications, Engineers in industry, Senior and graduate students in various universities with research programs in nanoscale science, engineering and technology

Table of contents

1. Introduction (Nanotechnology Emerging Trends, Markets and Concerns)

2. Fundamentals of Safety

3. Safety and Ethics of Nanotechnology

4. Regulatory and Environmental Issues of Nanotechnology Safety

5. Nanotechnology Safety in the Automotive Industry

6. Nanotechnology Safety in the Biomedical Industry

7. Nanotechnology Safety in the Aerospace Industry

8. Nanotechnology Safety in the Construction and Infrastructure Industries

9. Food Safety Applications of Nanoparticles

10. Nanotechnology Safety in the Energy Industry

11. Nanotechnology Safety in the Electronics and Telecommunications Industries

12. Nanotechnology Safety in the Marine Industry

13. Implications of Nanotechnology Safety of Sensors on Homeland Security Industries

14. Nanotechnology Risk Assessment

15. Nanotechnology Safety Certification

16. Physical and Biochemical Risk Phenomena in Nanotechnology

Review quotes

"The second edition of Nanotechnology Safety outlines the safety, regulatory and environmental issues related to nanotechnology per industry, offering guidelines for risk assessment and discussion of the legal and social- economic issues related to the nanotechnology. It serves as a guide to implementing the nanotechnology in compliance with the current safety regulations. This revised edition is updated and provides full details of the latest advances in nanomaterials and nanotechnology, including their industrial applications, toxicity levels and protection systems. It remains an indispensable resource for academia and industries, offering updates on the recent processes and nanosystems, the latest information about nanomanufacturing and their products for various industries, and information about waste stream classifications, safety goals, processing facilities and market developments for new products." Review by Asian Dyer, December 2025

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 27, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Ramazan Asmatulu

Dr. Ramazan Asmatulu is a Full Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Wichita State University in the USA. His current research mainly focuses on the synthesis, characterization, and mechanical properties of various nanomaterials, nanocomposites, and biomaterials for primarily aerospace, energy, environment, and biomedical applications.
Affiliations and expertise
Full Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Wichita State University, USA

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Waseem S. Khan

Dr. Waseem S. Khan conducted his postdoc research at the Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, USA. He joined Majmaah University, Majmaah, Saudi Arab, in 2014 and worked there as Assistant Professor in the department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering for three years. He later joined Dubai Men’s College, Higher Colleges of Technology, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in 2017. He has been working there an Assistant Professor, since 2017. Throughout, his studies he published more than 30 journal papers, 40 conference papers and 20 book chapters. He received several awards in Saudi Arab and Dubai. He received more than $100,000.00 internal and external grants from different sources.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Dubai Men’s College, Higher Colleges of Technology, Academic City, Dubai, UAE

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Eylem Asmatulu

Dr. Eylem Asmatulu received her PhD degree from the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Wichita State University (WSU) in May 2013. She worked as an Engineering Educator in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at WSU between 2015 and 2017, and then joined to the same department as an Assistant professor in August 2017. She is mainly teaching materials and selections, six sigma and recycling courses. Through her academic studies, she has published 15 journal papers and 35 conference proceedings, authored 12 book chapters, presented 11 presentations and reviewed several manuscripts in international journals and conference proceedings.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA

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