Environmental Impacts of Nanotechnology and Its Products

Nanotechnology increases the strengths of many materials and devices, as well as enhances efficiencies of monitoring devices, remediation of environmental pollution, and renewable energy production.While these are considered to be the positive effect of nanotechnology, there are certain negative impacts of nanotechnology on environment in many ways, such as increased toxicological pollution on the environment due to the uncertain shape, size, and chemical compositions of some of the nanotechnology products (or nanomaterials).It can be vital to understand the risks of using nanomaterials, and cost of the resulting damage.It is required to conduct a risk assessment and full life-cycle analysis for nanotechnology products at all stages of products to understand the hazards of nanoproducts and the resultant knowledge that can then be used to predict the possible positive and negative impacts of the nanoscale products.Choosing right, less toxic materials (e.g., graphene) will make huge impacts on the environment.This can be very useful for the training and protection of students, as well as scientists, engineers, policymakers, and regulators working in the field.