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News Release 08-155
NSF and EPA Establish Two Centers for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology
Centers will focus on environmental effects of nanotechnology and its applications
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The Berkeley Pit in Butte, Mont., contains heavy metals contaminated with mineral nanoparticles.
Credit: Mike Hochella, Virginia Tech
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This image shows a "heat map" with increased (red) or decreased (green) stem cell growth.
Credit: April Pyle, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, UCLA
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Microscope image of silicon dioxide nanoparticles. CEIN scientists will use new tools to discover the possible environmental impacts of nanoparticles.
Credit: Eric M. V. Hoek, California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA
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