What is Nanotechnology? Plus: EPA to Regulate Nanoproducts Sold As Germ-Killing
Getting back to some serious side of technology, we will randomly dive into nanotechnology.
What is nanotechnology?
Here’s a good Google video on nanotechnology explaining what it is:
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The Environmental Protection Agency has decided to regulate a large class of consumer items made with microscopic “nanoparticles” of silver, part of a new but increasingly widespread technology that may pose unanticipated environmental risks, a government official said yesterday.
The decision — which will affect the marketing of high-tech odor-destroying shoe liners, food-storage containers, air fresheners, washing machines and a wide range of other products that contain tiny bacteria-killing particles of silver — marks a significant reversal in federal policy. It also creates an unexpected regulatory hurdle for the burgeoning field of nanotechnology, which involves the creation of materials just a few ten-thousandths the diameter of a human hair.
Basically nanotechnology is a technology that kills bacteria with its particles of silver. It has been used in shoes, food-storage container, etc…etc…
The EPA will try to regulate the technology by testing and making sure that the nanosilver is safe as its disposed into our environment and does not kill the good germs too.
There are speculations that nanosilver could kill HIV and AIDS too.
More site with nanotechnology info:
national nanotechnology initiative
Any comments appreciated in helping understand nanotechnology better.
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