Summary: In 2004 Günter Oberdörster and colleagues published a seminal review on the emerging discipline of nanotoxicology, which was later selected as EHP's 2008 Paper of the Year [EHP 113:823-839 (2005)]. In this podcast, Oberdörster tells why nanomaterials are so different from their larger chemical counterparts and describes the growing use of these materials in consumer products. Oberdörster is a professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine at the University of Rochester, New York, and director of the University of Rochester Ultrafine Particle Center.
