2021/07/13 by G. Ali Mansoori, Mansoori, G. Ali
Engineering · Environmental Science · Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #2019-20 coronavirus outbreak #Biology #Business #COVID-19 impact on air quality #Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) #Disease #Ecology #Economics #Engineering #Environmental crisis #Environmental ethics #Environmental planning #Environmental science #FOS: Physical sciences #Fossil fuel #Geography #Greenhouse gas #Humanity #Infectious disease (medical specialty) #Materials science #Medicine #Nanotechnology #Natural resource economics #Outbreak #Pandemic #Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) #Political science #Scale (ratio) #Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) #Societal impact of nanotechnology #Waste management #physics.soc-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2108.00820
published in arXiv (Cornell University) (Cornell University) · 6 pages, 5 figures
openalex publication_date 2021/07/13 · arxiv created 2021/08/24 · arxiv updated 2021/08/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
There are two major challenging problems facing humanity today which are the ongoing Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic started in late 2019 and the environmental crisis due to fossil fuels combustion causing over increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. While the first problem seems to be a temporary remedy for the second one due to less travels by individuals, actual solution of both problems may require a comprehensive scientific, technological, and socioeconomic decisions. In this report we look at the role of nanotechnology and nano-scale materials towards the solution of these two major challenges.