[News Feed] Study: Nanotech Processing 'Greener' Than Oil Refining

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Using a method for assessing the premiums that companies pay for insurance, a team of scientists and insurance experts have concluded that the manufacturing processes for five, near-market nanomaterials -- including quantum dots, carbon nanotubes and buckyballs -- present fewer risks to the environment than some common industrial processes like oil refining. For two of the nanomaterials -- nanotubes and alumoxane nanoparticles -- manufacturing risks were comparable with those of making wine or aspirin.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1005070943.htm