Green Nanotechnology: The Latest Innovations, Knowledge Gaps, and Future Perspectives

Dear Colleagues,

Nanotechnology is a key enabling technology bringing together chemists, biologists, physicians, and materials science engineers, among others. It has been proposed for addressing societal challenges due to the vast range of applications, such as on nanomedicine, food, nanoelectronics, energy, packaging, composite materials, coatings, construction, water treatment or environmental remediation. Not surprisingly, the use of nanostructured materials has been raising health and environmental safety concerns favoring the expansion of a sub-field dedicated to green and safe-by-design solutions. Green nanotechnology aims at developing solutions that minimize environmental and human health risks of nanomaterials during their lifetime through the replacement of toxic products or current processes through suitable eco-friendly alternatives. This Special Issue seeks innovative applications, products, technologies or processes beyond the state-of-the-art in any scientific green nanotechnology-related field as well as considerations in terms of future perspectives and identification of gap knowledges. Research on sustainable production of nanomaterials, novel safer-by-design technologies or (eco)toxicological assessment of novel nanomaterials is also welcome.

Dr. Roberto Martins
Dr. Olga Barbara Kaczerewska
Guest Editors

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