Manufactured nanoparticles in the environment
Jamie R. LeadSchool of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES), University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK. Email: j.r.lead@bham.ac.uk
Jamie Lead is Professor of Environmental Nanoscience and Director of the UK Facility for Environmental Nanoscience Analysis and Characterisation (FENAC), at the University of Birmingham, UK. His research interests encompass both natural and manufactured nanoparticles. In the former area, he is interested in quantifying how particle structure affects their environmental function in pollutant behaviour. In the latter area, he is interested in nanoparticle synthesis and physico-chemical characterisation, environmental chemistry and transport and their ecotoxicology. |
Environmental Chemistry 7(1) 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1071/EN09139
Submitted: 1 November 2009 Accepted: 18 December 2009 Published: 22 February 2010
Environmental context. Nanotechnology is a very important industry which may be socially transformative, but produces nanomaterials (NMs) which have a potential but poorly characterised risk to the environment. This Research Front describes new research investigating NM environmental chemistry, particularly in relation to ecotoxicology. This Research Front shows some of the most exciting research undertaken currently and fits within a dynamic research program, which is global in scope and which attempts to unravel these complex areas.
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