Ethics in Nanotechnology: What’s Being Done? What’s Missing?

摘要: Nanotechnology shows great promise in a variety of applications with attractive economic and societal benefits. However, issues associated nanotechnology are still concern to the general public. While numerous technological advancements have been achieved over past decade, research into broader is its early phases. Based on data from Web Science database, we applied main path analysis, cluster analysis text mining tools explore fronts hierarchical structure these issues. We found that studies fell four categories: “General Toxicity EHS (Environment, Health Safety),” “Medicine Cytotoxicity,” “Assessment Regulation,” “Environment Ecotoxicity.” These disclosed much information about potential effect public health environment. Relatively speaking, assessment, regulation, preventive solutions, environmental protection just emerging. This finding indicates an abundance effort should be conducted emerging themes maximize benefits while minimizing harm. The implications for various parties this domain also presented.