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Nanotechnology, Life Cycle Assessment and Green ICT

Rajeev Kumar Kanth, Pasi Liljeberg, Harish Kumar, Li-Rong Zheng, Hannu Tenhunen, Nanotechnology, Life Cycle Assessment and Green ICT. In: Theodora Issa (Ed.), Sustainability, Technology and Education Conference Proceedings, Iadis International Conference WWW/Internet, 1–5, IADIS, 2013.

Abstract:

In this paper, the reciprocal relationship among nanotechnology, life cycle assessment and green ICT is explored. The conjunction between life cycle assessment and nanotechnology is briefly described in context with recent growing market of nanotechnology and its adverse impacts to the environment. The major consequences of life cycle assessment on green ICT are also discussed in this paper. A set of experiments is conducted using LCA tool to analyze environmental impacts behavior on different substrates with various possible printing materials. This parametric study gives an overview of the environmental impacts such as global warming, ozone depletion, and average human toxicity potentials in a building process of fixed structural element of a nanoproduct. Epoxy resin, Kapton and Teonex are considered as potential substrate materials while aluminum, ferrosilicon and copper are taken into account for tracing pattern on nano-structural element. In this paper, we will also discuss briefly few issues of green ICT with current technical education system.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpKaLiKuZhTe13a,
  title = {Nanotechnology, Life Cycle Assessment and Green ICT},
  booktitle = {Sustainability, Technology and Education Conference Proceedings},
  author = {Kanth, Rajeev Kumar and Liljeberg, Pasi and Kumar, Harish and Zheng, Li-Rong and Tenhunen, Hannu},
  series = {Iadis International Conference WWW/Internet},
  editor = {Issa, Theodora},
  publisher = {IADIS},
  pages = {1–5},
  year = {2013},
  keywords = {Life Cycle Assessment, Printed Electronics, Green ICT, Sustainability, Nanotechnology },
}

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