Engineered Nanomaterials for Environmental and Health Applications: Third Edition
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Nanoscience and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 11 July 2025 | Viewed by 544
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last few decades, due to the intensive development of nanotechnology, engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) have been released, intentionally or accidentally, into the environment. The number of ecotoxicological studies on ENMs has rapidly increased over the past few years, and they have raised several critical issues.
On the other hand, the application of nanotechnology in the environment includes the use of ENMs to clean up polluted media, such as soil, water, air, groundwater, and wastewater (nanoremediation).
Nanotechnologies also have the potential to pose disadvantages as well as confer benefits in terms of human exposure to new nanomaterials. ENMs influence human safety through environmental pollution, unintentional exposure (e.g., due to pollution or exposure at the workplace), and purposeful exposure by the intended application (nanomedicine).
The objective of this Special Issue of Nanomaterials is to highlight advances in environmental and health applications of ENMs. Topics of particular interest include the following:
- The influence of ENMs on environmental pollution and associated organisms;
- Sustainable (nano)solutions for environmental remediation;
- Effects of exposure to ENMs on human health;
- New ENMs for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of disease;
- ENMs for the identification of disease biomarkers.
This Special Issue is an extension of previous ones. It aims to enrich the collection of articles on the topics already proposed with the further purpose of informing studies and their results on the effects of nanoparticles in combination with other contaminants.
Dr. Lucia Rocco
Dr. Filomena Mottola
Guest Editors
Ilaria Palmieri
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- engineered nanomaterials
- nanotechnology
- human health
- environmental health and safety
- nanoremediation
- ecosafety
- nanotoxicity
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