Nanotechnology has many potential applications in the Philippines including electronics, IT, medicine, healthcare, and energy. However, there are also some health and environmental risks to consider. On the health side, nanoparticles could potentially cause toxicity, cancer, or damage to organs like the lungs and heart depending on their properties and how they enter the body. Environmentally, studies show nanoparticles can harm aquatic organisms and fish. They may also contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and changes in cloud properties if released into the environment. Proper precautions would need to be taken to minimize these risks while maximizing the benefits of nanotechnology.
Nanotechnology has many potential applications in the Philippines including electronics, IT, medicine, healthcare, and energy. However, there are also some health and environmental risks to consider. On the health side, nanoparticles could potentially cause toxicity, cancer, or damage to organs like the lungs and heart depending on their properties and how they enter the body. Environmentally, studies show nanoparticles can harm aquatic organisms and fish. They may also contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and changes in cloud properties if released into the environment. Proper precautions would need to be taken to minimize these risks while maximizing the benefits of nanotechnology.
Nanotechnology has many potential applications in the Philippines including electronics, IT, medicine, healthcare, and energy. However, there are also some health and environmental risks to consider. On the health side, nanoparticles could potentially cause toxicity, cancer, or damage to organs like the lungs and heart depending on their properties and how they enter the body. Environmentally, studies show nanoparticles can harm aquatic organisms and fish. They may also contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and changes in cloud properties if released into the environment. Proper precautions would need to be taken to minimize these risks while maximizing the benefits of nanotechnology.
Nanotechnology has many potential applications in the Philippines including electronics, IT, medicine, healthcare, and energy. However, there are also some health and environmental risks to consider. On the health side, nanoparticles could potentially cause toxicity, cancer, or damage to organs like the lungs and heart depending on their properties and how they enter the body. Environmentally, studies show nanoparticles can harm aquatic organisms and fish. They may also contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and changes in cloud properties if released into the environment. Proper precautions would need to be taken to minimize these risks while maximizing the benefits of nanotechnology.
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1. What are the potential applications of nanotechnology in the Philippines? Nanotechnology is helping to significantly improve and even revolutionize many sectors of technology and industry: IT, Homeland Security, Medicine, Transportation, Energy, Food Security, Environmental Science, and many more. A sampling of the rapidly increasing list of applications of nanotechnology are as follows; Electronics and IT Applications - Nanotechnology has greatly contributed to major advances in computing and electronics, leading to faster, smaller, and more portable systems that can manage and store larger and larger amounts of information. Medical and Healthcare Applications - The medical devices, expertise and therapies currently available to clinicians are also being broadened by nanotechnology. The use of nanotechnology in medicine, Nanomedicine, builds on the natural scale of biological phenomena to create specific solutions for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Energy Applications- is being applied to conventional energy sources and is dramatically developing renewable energy methods to help meet the rising energy demands of the world. Many scientists are researching ways to build clean, inexpensive and sustainable sources of energy, along with means to minimize energy use and reduce environmental toxicity burdens.
2. What are the possible health risks of nanotechnology?
Toxicity of nanoparticles is determined by their surface qualities, coating, structure, scale, and aggregation capabilities, which are all detrimental effects of nanotechnology. If nanoparticles have a limited solubility, they can cause cancer. Nanoparticles have a greater surface-to-volume ratio, which increases chemical and biological reactivity. Nanoparticles can enter the body through a variety of routes. The body can be injected or implanted via the dermis, ingestion, inhalation, or injection. Nanoparticles join dermally when present in skin care products, hair products, or lip balms, such as sunscreen and anti-wrinkle lotion. Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain the deleterious effects that may contribute to cardiopulmonary morbidity and death in populations exposed to nanoparticles. Nanoparticles have the ability to stimulate lung neurons, which have an impact on the central nervous system and autonomic cardiovascular function.
3. What are the possible environmental risks of nanotechnology?
Nanoparticles have been proven to be hazardous to unicellular aquatic organisms and aquatic animals, such as fish and Daphnia, in toxicological investigations. Greenhouse gas emissions from processes such as combustion and pollution are already inadvertently released into the environment, where they have been linked to negative health effects and changes in cloud properties. Carbon nanotubes are a limiting factor in protist growth, and they have toxic effects on rainbow trout's respiratory systems.