By Porter Wright on The NanoSafety Consortium for Carbon just submitted a proposed toxicity testing agreement to EPA under Section 4 of the Toxic Substances Control Act covering a range of nanoscale materials including multi-walled carbon nanotubes, double-walled carbon nanotubes, single-walled carbon nanotubes, and graphene. Key elements for the curious: The chemical substances to be tested … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on The NanoSafety Consortium for Carbon has recently posted a bibliography of in vivo tox studies on its website. The bibliography is (obviously) a work in progress. We would greatly appreciate it if our readers would bring to our attention any pertinent articles that are not already on the bibliography. The articles will be used to inform … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on The National Nanomanufacuring Network (NNN) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst just published its October newsletter which you can find here. There is a nice article by Barbara Beck and Chris Long from Gradient regarding the recent Song nanoparticle study from China which was my first contributing editor piece for NNN’s InterNano. Please read the newsletter … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on This article was originally published by the National Nanomanufacturing Network’s "InterNano" project (www.internano.com). It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. A recent study published in the well-known medical journal, the European Respiratory Journal, has been receiving significant publicity as the authors have claimed their findings support an apparent linkage between workplace exposures … Continue Reading