Nanotechnology in the real world: Redeveloping the nanomaterial consumer products inventory

To document the marketing and distribution of nano-enabled products into the commercial marketplace, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies created the Nanotechnology Consumer Products Inventory (CPI) in 2005. The objective of this present work is to redevelop the CPI by leading a research effort to increase the usefulness and reliability of this inventory. We created eight new descriptors for consumer products, including information pertaining to the nanomaterials contained in each product. The project was motivated by the recognition that a diverse group of stakeholders from academia, industry, and state/federal government had become highly dependent…

• NS
  National Science Foundation

  Award: 0830093
• AS
  Arizona State University
• CF
  Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology

  Award: EF-0830093
• IF
  Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science