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Nanotechnology: The new perspective in precision agriculture

Joginder Singh Duhan, Ravinder Kumar, Naresh Kumar, Pawan Kaur et al. • Biotechnology Reports (2017)

Nanotechnology is an interdisciplinary research field. In recent past efforts have been made to improve agricultural yield through exhaustive research in nanotechnology. The green revolution resulted in blind usage of pesticides and chemica...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc-nd DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.btre.2017.03.002 PMC: 5454086

Expectations and the Emergence of Nanotechnology

Cynthia L. Selin • Science Technology & Human Values (2007)

Although nanotechnology is often defined as operations on the 10 -9 meters, the lack of charisma in the scale-bound definitions has been fortified by remarkable dreams and alluring promises that spark excitement for nanotechnology. The stor...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243906296918

Innovations in nanotechnology for water treatment

Ilka Gehrke, Andreas Geiser, Annette Somborn • Nanotechnology Science and Applications (2015)

Important challenges in the global water situation, mainly resulting from worldwide population growth and climate change, require novel innovative water technologies in order to ensure a supply of drinking water and reduce global water poll...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc DOI: https://doi.org/10.2147/nsa.s43773 PMC: 4294021

Nanotechnology in dentistry

R. Vijayalakshmi, S. Ashok Kumar • Indian Journal of Dental Research (2006)

Nanotechnology is manipulating matter at nanometer level and the application of the same to medicine is called nanomedicine. Nanotechnology holds promise for advanced diagnostics, targeted drug delivery, and biosensors. In the long-term, me...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.4103/0970-9290.29890

Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology

Joel Cummings • Reference Reviews (2013)

Society that has become one of the twentieth-century classic science lectures, titled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom."He presented a technological vision of extreme miniaturization in 1959, several years before the word "chip" became...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/09504121311320189

Development of nanotechnologies

Ann P. Dowling • Materials Today (2004)

This article summarizes the key findings and recommendations of the Royal Society/Royal Academy of Engineering Report on Nanotechnology1. The report is enthusiastic about the great potential benefits of nanotechnologies. Uncertainties assoc...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc-nd DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/s1369-7021(04)00628-5

Nanotechnology for a Sustainable Future: Addressing Global Challenges with the International Network4Sustainable Nanotechnology

Lisa Pokrajac, Ali Abbas, Wojciech Chrzanowski, Goretty Maria Dias et al. • ACS Nano (2021)

Nanotechnology has important roles to play in international efforts in sustainability. We discuss how current and future capabilities in nanotechnology align with and support the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. We argue that,...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c10919

Environmental Risks of Nanotechnology: National Nanotechnology Initiative Funding, 2000−2004

Katherine Guzmán, Margaret Taylor, Jillian F. Banfield • Environmental Science & Technology (2006)

By considering risk in the early stages of a technology, costs of identifying important health and environmental impacts after a technology has widely diffused can be avoided. Nanotechnology, involving materials and objects less than 100 nm...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/es0515708