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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Nov. 27, 2008

Tiny Particles, Big Business

Federal agencies have been reluctant to adopt regulations treating nanoparticles differently than other chemicals or pollutants, write Orlyn “Skip” Lockard, III and Peter E. Masaitis. - Focus Column

FOCUS COLUMN

By Orlyn "Skip" Lockard, III and Peter E. Masaitis

In a famous 1959 lecture titled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom," Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman posited a world in which mankind could engineer and control matter at the atomic level. Although the word "nanotechnology" was not coined for several more years, Feynman's anticipated developments in microelectronics, computer miniaturization and even the manipulation...

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