Standards from ASTM International Technical Committee E56 on Nanotechnology

This chapter introduces the concept of documentary or voluntary consensus standards, highlights background information on ASTM International, and provides in‐depth discussions of ASTM International's Technical Committee E56 on Nanotechnology. The scope, history, membership, standards, and future technical focus areas of Committee E56 are presented. Industry and government agencies, particularly regulatory agencies, are the target customers for E56 standards. ASTM E56 has provided and will continue to provide rigorous, robust, and relevant standards in support of metrology for nanomaterials and products that contain nanomaterials, aimed at facilitating industrial innovation and commercialization of such products and enabling science‐based regulation.