A call for contributions for a special issue of Journal of Cleaner Production addressing 'Development of Nanotechnology in Light of Sustainability'

摘要

Nanotechnology is an enabling technology for a wide variety of traditional scientific disciplines. This had led to high expectations that nanotechnology will be a key technology for improving people's standards of living, in the short-term by significantly improving existing processes and products and in the long-term by providing revolutionary and life-changing advances across a wide variety of industries from cancer treatment, light-weight materials to renewable energy. However, the novel properties that make nanotechnologies so interesting have also raised many unanswered questions and concerns related to the impacts nanotechnology may have on society and the environment from the vantage point of sustainability. We invite submissions of papers (8000-9000 words in length) which deal, in depth, with sustainable development in the field of nanotechnology. Sustainable technologies are, in our view, characterized by high benefits, low risks for the short and long-term and which are socially acceptable. The objective of this Special Issue is to publish high quality papers that objectively and critically analyze how the development of nanotechnology may contribute to sustainable development.