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Developing trends in nanomaterials and their environmental implications

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Nanotechnology is advancing at an accelerated pace in applications and novel nanomaterials. To become an enabling technology for a more sustainable society, we identify and assess nanomaterials and applications trends with potentially significant environmental implications.

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Fig. 1: Nanomaterial market growth.
Fig. 2: Applications of nanomaterials.
Fig. 3: Flow of nanomaterials from production to use to end-of-life.

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    Arturo A. Keller & Alex Ehrens

  2. Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Yuanfang Zheng & Bernd Nowack

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Keller, A.A., Ehrens, A., Zheng, Y. et al. Developing trends in nanomaterials and their environmental implications. Nat. Nanotechnol. 18, 834–837 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-023-01409-z

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