Handbook of Nanosafety - Measurement, Exposure and Toxicology

Handbook of Nanosafety: Measurement, Exposure and Toxicology, written by leading international experts in nanosafety, provides a comprehensive understanding of engineered nanomaterials (ENM), current international nanosafety regulation, and how ENM can be safely handled in the workplace.
Increasingly, the importance of safety needs to be considered when promoting the use of novel technologies like ENM. With its use of case studies and exposure scenarios, Handbook of Nanosafety demonstrates techniques to assess exposure and risks and how these assessments can be applied to improve workers' safety. Topics covered include the effects of ENM on human health, characterization of ENM, aerosol dynamics and measurement, exposure and risk assessment, and safe handling of ENM.
Based on outcomes from the NANODEVICE initiative, this is an essential resource for those who need to apply current nanotoxicological thinking in the workplace and anyone who advises on nanosafety, such as professionals in toxicology, occupational safety and risk assessment.

List of contents

1. Introduction
2. Exposure Scenarios
3. Nanomaterials and Human Health
4. From Source to Dose: Emission, Transport, Aerosol dynamics and Dose Assessment for Workplace Aerosol Exposure
5. Quality control of measurement devices
6. Exposure Assessment Strategies
7. Risk Assessment and Risk Management
8. Examples and Case Studies
9. Future Outlook

About the author

Markus Berges, geboren 1966 in Telgte, studierte Germanistik und Geschichte und arbeitete als Psychiatriepfleger und Lehrer. Als Sänger und Songschreiber gründete er 1995 die Band "Erdmöbel". Markus Berges lebt mit seiner Familie in Köln.

Report

"Most of the information is from the NANODEVICE research project funded by the European Union, but the findings often integrate results of other research as well. Contributors from a wide range of sciences cover nanotechnology and exposure scenarios; nanomaterials and human health." --ProtoView.com, April 2014

Product details

• Authors: Ulla Vogel, Ulla (EDT)/ Savolainen Vogel
• Assisted by: Markus Berges (Editor), Berges Markus (Editor), Derk Brouwer (Editor), Brouwer Derk (Editor), Kai Savolainen (Editor), Savolainen Kai (Editor), Martie van Tongeren (Editor), Martie Van Tongeren (Editor), van Tongeren Martie (Editor), Ulla Vogel (Editor), Vogel Ulla (Editor), Qinglan Wu (Editor), Wu Qinglan (Editor)
• Publisher: Academic Press London
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9780124166042
• ISBN: 978-0-12-416604-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Academic Press; Academic Press
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Chemical engineering; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Nanotechnology & MEMS, MEDICAL / Occupational & Industrial Medicine, Nanotechnology, Occupational medicine