Chapter 9

Environmental and Occupational Health Issues with Nanoparticles

R. Handy, M. Whitt, M. Rodriguez and M.J. Jackson

Center for Advanced Manufacturing, MET, College of Technology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA

Abstract

There are various environmental as well as worker health and safety issues involved with manufacturing or fabrication efforts that result in the creation of particles in the nanoparticle size range. While the research in this area is in the relatively early stages, several studies have been conducted over the last decade or so that focus on the environmental and human exposure issues surrounding the anthropogenic generation of airborne ultrafine or nanometre-range particles. The purpose of this chapter is ...

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