Toxicological Properties of Nanomaterials

Dear colleagues,

Nanotechnology is a Key Enabling Technology (KET), becoming an increasingly relevant sector providing functional materials to many industrial sectors such as automotive, health, packaging, textiles, construction, etc. However, the risks to health and the environment posed by the characteristics of nanomaterial enabled products are a significant barrier for their commercialization and hinders the societal perception of the benefit of nanotechnologies. As these new materials go through their life-cycle—from development, to manufacture, to consumer usage, to final disposal—different human groups (workers, bystanders, and users), environmental compartments (air, soil, sediment, and water), and species (e.g., worm, fish, or human through secondary exposure) will be exposed to them. Identifying and controlling the hazards associated with nanomaterials (NMs) is required to ensure the safety of the general public, workers, and the environment, in parallel to exploiting the technological benefits. Despite the progress on the evaluation of environmental and human toxicity of numerous NMs, most of the research has been focused on the pristine or simplified nanomaterials, and deeper knowledge is needed to understand the risk assessment of nano-multicomponent forms or nanomaterials with heterogeneous morphology.

This Special Issue will compile recent developments in the field of nanomaterial toxicology.  The articles presented in this Special Issue will cover various topics, ranging from, but not limited to, human toxicology and environmental toxicology of multicomponent nanomaterials and high aspect-ratio nanomaterials, computational toxicology of nanomaterials, and elucidation of toxicity mechanisms of nanomaterials.

Dr. Juan Antonio Tamayo-Ramos
Guest Editor

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• nanomaterials
• multicomponent
• high aspect-ratio
• safe-by-design
• biocompatibility
• computational toxicology
• bioinformatics
• mechanisms of action
• ecotoxicology
• human hazard