Nanotechnologies: Overview and issues

NATO Security through Science Series C: Environmental Security

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-14

  Maynard, Andrew D ^a  

^a WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS   (United States)

Author keywords

Control; Engineered nanomaterials; Exposure; Nanotechnology; Risk; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249099293     PISSN: 18714668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6076-2_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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