Silver nanoparticles in clothing wash out – and may threaten human health and the environment
- Written by Sukalyan Sengupta, Professor of Wastewater Treatment, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
There are nanometals in your washing machine.Evgeny Atamanenko
Humans have known since ancient times that silver kills or stops the growth of many microorganisms. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, is said to have used silver preparations for treating ulcers and healing wounds. Until the introduction of antibiotics in the 1940s, colloidal silver...