NANOTECHNOLOGY OFFERS BENEFITS TO REDUCE WASTE AND POLLUTION
May 1st, 2007
BY MARK ROWE, in LondonNANOTECHNOLOGY is opening the path to a new generation of monitoring systems for environmental and water based pollution, a Royal Society conference examining the growing influence of the emerging science on the environment was told.The London conference, entitled 'Nanotechnology - Products and Processes for Environmental Benefit', heard that, while traditional biosensors worked well, they were relatively fragile and susceptible to degradation. "Prolific amounts of chemical information are required to feed current environmental models," ...
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