Sustainable nanotechnology: Through green methods and life-cycle thinking

Sustainability

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3323-3338

  Dhingra, Rajive ^a   Naidu, Sasikumar ^a   Upreti, Girish ^a   Sawhney, Rapinder ^a  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

DfE; Energy intensity; Green chemistry; Human health impacts; Life cycle assessment; Nanomanufacturing; Nanomaterials; Nanotechnology; Risk assessment; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960246214     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su2103323     Document Type: Article

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