论文标题
关于纳米材料的分类
On the Categorization of Nanomaterials
论文作者
论文摘要
在本文中，从四个角度研究了纳米材料的分类。上下文，成功的标准，确保测量值相关以及纳米材料的生命周期。对于每个观点，都讨论了与分类的相关性以及它带来的困难。例如，尽管评估对生物和环境的潜在损害的背景显然很重要，但通常需要其他环境，需要不同的分类方案。了解在目标上下文中对分类方案的成功含义，对于确保分类实际上是有用的至关重要的。纳米材料及其相互作用的复杂性使生成并收集所需的数据和元数据以支持分类。最后，转化的纳米材料在其寿命中经历了包括测试过程，对准确的分类提出了其他挑战。这些因素如何影响可用分类方案的发展。
In this paper, categorization of nanomaterials is examined from four perspectives; context, criteria for success, ensuring measurements are relevant, and the life cycle of a nanomaterial. For each perspective, its relevance to categorization is discussed as well as the difficulties it presents. For example, while the context of assessing potential harm to living things and the environment is clearly important, other contexts are often needed and require different categorization schemes. Understanding what success means for a categorization scheme, within its target context, is critical to making sure a categorization is actually useful. The complexity of nanomaterials and their interactions makes generating and collecting the required data and metadata to support categorization a challenge. Finally, the transformation a nanomaterial undergoes through its lifetime, including the testing process, present additional challenges to accurate categorization. How these factors impact development of usable categorization schemes is analyzed.
