Foreword
Andrew D. Maynard
July 12, 2009
Back in 2001, I had the privilege of visiting Richard Smalley's laboratory at Rice University. I was working with a team measuring the airborne release of single walled carbon nanotubes as they were produced and handled. The work led to some of the first published data on possible inhalation exposures to nanotubes, but my abiding memories of that visit are of Rick's overwhelming enthusiasm for this innovative new material, and a rather relaxed attitude among his research team to prevent exposure. Wipe your finger along any surface in the lab it seemed, and it would come away black.
Carbon nanotubes epitomize the tension between realizing the promise of emerging engineered nanomaterials and avoiding ...
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