Engineered Nanomaterials for Environmental and Health Applications: Second Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last few decades, due to the intensive development of nanotechnology, engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) have been released, intentionally or accidentally, into the environment. The number of ecotoxicological studies for ENMs has rapidly increased over the past few years and they have raised several critical issues.

On the other hand, the application of nanotechnology to the environment includes the use of ENMs to clean up polluted media, such as soil, water, air, groundwater, and wastewater (nanoremediation).

Nanotechnologies also have the potential to have disadvantages as well as confer benefits in terms of the exposure of humans to new nanomaterials. ENMs influence human safety by environmental pollution, unintentional exposure (e.g., due to pollution or exposure at the workplace), and purposeful exposure by the intended application (nanomedicine).

The objective of this Special Issue of Nanomaterials is to highlight advances in the environmental and health applications of ENMs. Topics of particular interest include:

• The influence of ENMs on environmental pollution and associated organisms;
• Sustainable (nano)solutions for environmental remediation;
• Effects of exposure to ENMs on human health;
• New ENMs for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of disease; and
• ENMs for the identification of disease biomarkers.

Dr. Lucia Rocco
Guest Editor

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