ArticleNature nanotechnology2017
Setting the stage for debating the roles of risk assessment and life-cycle assessment of engineered nanomaterials.
Article in Nature nanotechnology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 102 citations in OpenAlex.
- Mapping Uncertain Risks and Impacts of Substances of Concern in Product Life Cycles - An SSbD Tool for Product Developers.Circular economy and sustainability · 2026Article
- Colloid and Interface Science for Understanding Microplastics and Developing Remediation Strategies.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2025Review
- A framework for guiding safe and sustainable-by-design innovation.Journal of industrial ecology · 2025Article
- Time-explicit life cycle assessment: a flexible framework for coherent consideration of temporal dynamics.The international journal of life cycle assessment · 2025Article
- Let the two sides of the same coin meet-Environmental health and safety-oriented development of functional nanomaterials for environmental remediations.Eco-Environment & Health · 2024Review
- Safe nanomaterials: from their use, application, and disposal to regulations.Nanoscale advances · 2024Review
- Toxicity of Titanium Dioxide-Cerium Oxide Nanocomposites to Zebrafish Embryos: A Preliminary Evaluation.Toxics · 2023Article
- Analytical methods for assessing antimicrobial activity of nanomaterials in complex media: advances, challenges, and perspectives.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2023Review
- Toxicity of Carbon, Silicon, and Metal-Based Nanoparticles to the Hemocytes of Three Marine Bivalves.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020Article
- Distinguishing the sources of silica nanoparticles by dual isotopic fingerprinting and machine learning.Nature communications · 2019Article
- Applying an innovative biodegradable self-assembly nanomicelles to deliver α-mangostin for improving anti-melanoma activity.Cell death & disease · 2019Article
- Toward harmonizing ecotoxicity characterization in life cycle impact assessment.Environmental toxicology and chemistry · 2018Article
- An inventory of ready-to-use and publicly available tools for the safety assessment of nanomaterials.NanoImpact · 2018Article
- Advanced tools for the safety assessment of nanomaterials.Nature nanotechnology · 2018Review
- TiO₂, SiO₂ and ZrO₂ Nanoparticles Synergistically Provoke Cellular Oxidative Damage in Freshwater Microalgae.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- Digesting the alphabet soup of LCA.The international journal of life cycle assessment · 2018Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Although technological and environmental benefits are important stimuli for nanotechnology development, these technologies have been contested from an environmental point of view. The steady growth of applications of engineered nanomaterials has heated up the debate on quantifying the environmental repercussions. The two main scientific methods to address these environmental repercussions are risk assessment and life-cycle assessment. The strengths and weaknesses of each of these methods, and the relation between them, have been a topic of debate in the world of traditional chemistry for over two decades. Here we review recent developments in this debate in general and for the emerging field of nanomaterials specifically. We discuss the pros and cons of four schools of thought for combining and integrating risk assessment and life-cycle assessment and conclude with a plea for action.
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.