Limitations
Data Limitations of Appendix A: Strategy for Nanotechnology-related EHS Research
In the use and analysis of these data to identify strengths, weaknesses, or gaps with respect to the overarching research needs, the interagency group of experts considered carefully the following limitations of this snapshot of the growing nanotechnology EHS research program.
Users of Appendix A from a Strategy for Nanotechnology-related EHS Research should be equally mindful of these limitations:
- The data represent only research funded in FY 2006. Many projects are multiyear and therefore actual research associated with projects listed may have taken place in earlier or later years. However, projects begun after FY 2006 are not captured.
- Projects listed are prospective, that is they are planned research, not research results. Basic research projects may diverge from the original proposal, based on initial results or as other information becomes available.
- The list represents only Federally funded research. It does not include any research in these areas that is supported by industry, nonprofit organizations, or other governments.
Return to Appendix A: Strategy for Nanotechnology-related EHS Research.