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Nanomaterials Reduce Environmental Burden Hanqing Lin Madonna University ESL4230 - Research Proposal (D1) January 20, 2017

This document discusses using nanomaterials to reduce environmental burdens. It begins by outlining research questions about the importance of the environment, what nanomaterials are, and how nanomaterials can impact the environment. It then discusses how pollution is burdening governments and citizens. Finally, it argues that nanomaterials can help reduce this burden through applications like water purification and heavy metal removal, while acknowledging some potential health concerns need further research.

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Nanomaterials Reduce Environmental Burden Hanqing Lin Madonna University ESL4230 - Research Proposal (D1) January 20, 2017

This document discusses using nanomaterials to reduce environmental burdens. It begins by outlining research questions about the importance of the environment, what nanomaterials are, and how nanomaterials can impact the environment. It then discusses how pollution is burdening governments and citizens. Finally, it argues that nanomaterials can help reduce this burden through applications like water purification and heavy metal removal, while acknowledging some potential health concerns need further research.

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Running Head: NANOMATERIALS REDUCE ENVIRONMENTAL BURDEN

NANOMATERIALS REDUCE ENVIRONMENTAL BURDEN

Hanqing Lin

Madonna University

ESL4230 Research Proposal (D1)

January 20, 2017


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NANOMATERIALS REDUCE ENVIRONMENTAL BURDEN

Research questions:

Informative paper: 1. Is environment important to us?

2. What are nanomaterials?

3. Nanomaterials can influence environment in

some fields?

Argumentative paper: 1. Are nanomaterials useful to reduce

environmental burden?

2. Are nanomaterials harmful to

environment?

Earth environmental pollution became more seriously day by day with

modern city lifestyle and humans behavior. Such as debris flow, fog and

haze, sand storm, water loss and soil erosion, the change of ozonosphere. All

of these natural calamities let governments spent much money on it. Officers

of governments had to send army to save citizens and deal with the pollution

problems. They still need rebuild constructions after natural calamities pass

these areas.

For a country, if they spent much more money to solves pollution problems.

Governments will have not enough money to support their army, increase

their health care, welfare. Maybe it can also cause labor shortages, because

they invest human resources to deal with these problems. For a family if
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natural calamities problem happen every years. When seriously event

happens, sometimes it will let person loss their family member or they will

be a homeless and jobless. It also causes a heavy financial burden to a

family.

Nowadays, most countries want to reduce the burden of environmental

pollution problem, whatever they how to solve it and pollution still became

more seriously, Because of the fact that governments can not control the

mind of everyone. Such as China, this country has a quarter of population of

this world. This is very difficult for governments to remind individuals to

protect environment. As well as, this country is very huge and very difficult

to let people (who is live poverty stricken) to know how to protect

environment.

This is a picture can let reader to know the pollution degree of China in

everywhere:
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The dark parts are highest polluted degree areas and light color parts are

lowest degree areas.(Qingyuan Luan. Review of environmental information

disclosure)

For my informative paper:

First, is environment important for us? There is no doubt, environment is

super important for human. As we know, all of people live in this earth, this is

our habitat, if we loss earth and we can depend on? Then, I will show the

data of the polluted degree and reader can know, whether environment is

important for us.

Second, what are nanomaterials? When I was a fresh man in my mother

school I first time knew this material from radio it name is: nanomaterials.

Nanomaterials (NMs) are a diverse class of small-scale substances that have


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structural components smaller than 1 micrometer [1,000 nanometers (nm)]

in at least one dimension. NMs include nanoparticles (NPs) which are

particles with at least two dimensions between approximately 1 and 100 nm

in the nanoscale. (EPA 2008; Luoma 2008).

Third, Nanomaterials can influence environment in some fields? Maybe some

reader they also knew this material is good for environment. However, they

did not know in which way. For example, due to extraordinary adsorption

capacity, application of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are increasingly considered

for drinking water purification or heavy metal/toxic dye removal (Gong et al.

2009; I will show many examples in my research in the future.

For my Argumentative paper:

To begin with, are nanomaterials are useful to reduce environmental burden?

I profoundly believe that this material has a lot of beneficial to environment!

Many people did not know this material before; they have many questions

and want to understand. Nanomaterials can play a key role in the green

process and engineering by material substitution, energy consumption

reduction, source saving and sustainable development. (Anastas, and

Zimmerman, 2003). The use of nanomaterials can lead to significant

savings in resources and increases of efficiency in manufacturing and energy

related applications. Its also very promising for improving the environment
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by reducing wastes and consumption of non-renewable natural resources,

and cleaning up existing pollution (Masciangioli and Zhang, 2003).

Are nanomaterials are harmful to environment? Although, there is also a

concern regarding NMs in food and feed that depends on their particular

intrinsic characteristics, the lack of in vivo toxicity data and in vitro validated

tests and the limited practical experience on risk assessment in this area.

(ECJRC ENPRA 2003).I still think the advantages of NMs are more than

disadvantage.

References

EPA. (2008).Nanotechnology for site remediation fact sheet. Solid waste and

emergency response. EPA 542-F-08-009, Washington, DC.


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ECJRC (European Commission Joint Research Center). (2003). European

commission technical guidance document (TGD) on risk assessment.

Gong, J. L., et al. (2009). Removal of cationic dyes from aqueous solution

using magnetic multi-wall carbon nanotube nanocomposite as

adsorbent. 1517 1522.

Qingyuan Luan.(2016). Review of environmental information disclosure

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