Nanotechnology can help solve many problems. But it is a
technology that involves risks as well, for people and for the
environment. In a PhD study conducted at Alterra Wageningen UR
and Wageningen University, doctoral candidate Merel van der
Ploeg explored the effects of nanoparticles on soils. Caution,
it turns out, is still called for in nanotechnology’s use.
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is a rapidly growing area in which extremely small, artificial
particles (< 100 nm) are utilised in applications ranging from
food, sporting goods and health and beauty products, to numerous
types of computers and other equipment. Nanoparticles can serve,
for example, as a ‘vehicle’ for delivering medicine to just the
right place in the human body (down to the cell), for
‘miniturisation’ of computer chips, for water purification
filters and in food, for instance, to improve taste, texture and
‘mouthfeel’. Given their increasin