Nanotechnologies

News	Date
How toxic are nanoparticles? New ISO standard helps find out	Jan. 2011
New ISO methodology demystifies nanomaterials	Aug. 2010
New ISO Technical Report for safer manufacturing and handling of nanomaterials	Jan. 2009
New ISO/TS 27687 will help defining nanotechnologies	Sep. 2008
ISO launches work on nanotechnology standards	Nov. 2005

Workshop - February 2008	Size
International Workshop on Documentary Standards for Measurement and Characterization in Nanotechnologies
Recommendations from the workshop	76 kB

Articles (from ISO Focus, April 2007)	Size
Month comment by Dr. Peter Hatto, Chairman of ISO/TC 229, Nanotechnologies and Director of Research, IonBond.Ltd	99 kB
Guest view by Dr. Mihail C. Roco, Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology at the US National Science Foundation (NSF)	244 kB
Nanotechnology: The Terminology Challenge by Clive Willis, Convenor, ISO/TC 229/WG 1	166 kB
Metrology and the challenge of the nanoscale by Jean-Marc Aublant, Delegate for International Affairs and Standardization of LNE	257 kB
Sustaining Moore's law - Through Microelectronics, Nanoelectronics and beyond by Dr. Paolo A. Gargini, Chairman, International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors	228 kB
Nanotechnology environmental health & safety standards by Steven Brown, Convenor of ISO/TC 229/WG 3, Environmental health and safety	169 kB
Medical opportunities of nanotechnology by Dr. Scott McNeil, Director, Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory for the National Cancer Institute	221 kB
A view from the insurance industry by Dr. Thomas K. Epprecht, Swiss Re	160 kB

Related standards

ISO/TS 27687:2008
Nanotechnologies -- Terminology and definitions for nano-objects -- Nanoparticle, nanofibre and nanoplate
ISO/PRF TS 10797
Nanotechnologies -- Characterization of single-wall carbon nanotubes using transmission electron microscopy
ISO 10801:2010
Nanotechnologies -- Generation of metal nanoparticles for inhalation toxicity testing using the evaporation/condensation method
ISO/TS 80004-3:2010
Nanotechnologies -- Vocabulary -- Part 3: Carbon nano-objects
ISO/TR 12885:2008
Nanotechnologies -- Health and safety practices in occupational settings relevant to nanotechnologies