AUTHOR=Fadeel Bengt , Sayre Phil 

TITLE=Don’t sweat the small stuff: a conversation about nanosafety

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Toxicology

VOLUME=Volume 5 - 2023

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/toxicology/articles/10.3389/ftox.2023.1254748

DOI=10.3389/ftox.2023.1254748

ISSN=2673-3080

ABSTRACT=Bengt Fadeel and Phil Sayre discuss lessons learned with respect to the safety assessment of nanomaterials, and provide a perspective on current and future challenges.BF: Phil, thank you for taking the time to discuss nanosafety. I suppose that this is not the first time, nor will it be the last, although it seems to me that some questions are merely repackaged for consumption by new generations of students and scientists. For instance, the definition of a nanomaterial, 1 something we used to fret over for a very long time versus the "smart" or advanced materials that we are faced with today. I am not so sure about the so-called smart materials, but I imagine that advanced materials are novel materials purposefully designed to show improvements of properties or functions when compared to conventional materials. However, it seems in some sense a circular argument to say that a nanomaterial is nano-sized or that advanced materials are advanced; perhaps the 1