Santamaria Annette
Center for Toxicology and Mechanistic Biology, Exponent®, Inc, Houston, TX, USA.
Methods Mol Biol. 2012;926:1-12. doi: 10.1007/978-1-62703-002-1_1.
Although scientists have been studying nanoscience phenomena for many decades, technological developments in the second half of the twentieth century provided valuable tools that permitted researchers to study and develop materials in the nanoscale size range and helped formalize nanotechnology as a scientific field. This chapter provides a brief history of the field of nanotechnology, with an emphasis on the development of nanotoxicology as a scientific field. A brief overview of the worldwide regulatory activities for nanomaterials is also presented. The future development and safe use of nanomaterials in a diverse range of consumer products will be interesting, intellectually challenging, exciting, and hopefully very beneficial for the society.
尽管科学家们已经研究纳米科学现象数十年了，但20世纪下半叶的技术发展提供了宝贵的工具，使研究人员能够研究和开发纳米尺度范围内的材料，并有助于将纳米技术正式确立为一个科学领域。本章简要介绍了纳米技术领域的历史，重点是纳米毒理学作为一个科学领域的发展。还简要概述了全球范围内针对纳米材料的监管活动。纳米材料在各种消费品中的未来发展和安全使用将是有趣的、具有智力挑战性的、令人兴奋的，并且有望对社会非常有益。
