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Environmental and
occupational health issues
with nanoparticles
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CHAPTER
R. Handy
1
, M. Whitt
1
, M. Rodriguez
1
and M.J. Jackson
2
1
Center for Advanced Manufacturing, MET, College of Technology, Purdue University, West
Lafayette, IN 47907, USA,
2
Micro Machinists Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts
9.1 INTRODUCTION
Various nanotechnologies used in fabrication and manufacturing have been around
for several years now and there is currently very little disagreement about the poten-
tial benets that could be realized by their increasing implementation in industry.
However, one major area of concern in the application of nanotechnologies in manu-
facturing ...