Mihail Roco
(US National Science and Technology Council)
3/9/15, 9:15 AM
Plenary Lecture 1: Nanotechnology path to Sustainable Society
Nanoscale science and engineering supports a foundational technology with implications on sustainability of economy, environment and overall societal development. Special challenges are balanced, equitable and safe affirmation of the technology. By establishing controlled synthesis and processing of matter at the nanoscale, nanotechnology would require fewer amounts of materials, water, and...
David G. Rickerby
(European Commission Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability)
3/9/15, 11:30 AM
Parallel session 1C: Life Cycle Thinking & LCA
An overview is presented of some of the opportunities for nanotechnology in real-world industrial applications. A wide range of industries and manufacturing processes are already being or are likely to be impacted by current advances in nanotechnology and nanomaterials. Significant improvements in energy and resource efficiency could potentially be achieved by the implementation of...
Aiga Mackevica
(DTU Environment, Technical University of Denmark)
3/9/15, 11:30 AM
Parallel session 1A: Occupational & Consumer Exposure
Little is known about consumer exposure to engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) stemming from NM-containing consumer products. Here, we focus especially on studies that have investigated the release of ENMs from consumer products, investigating to what extent the information in the open literature can be used to fulfill the requirements outlined in the European chemical legislation, REACH. In...
Azucena Bermejo-Nogales
(INIA)
3/9/15, 11:30 AM
Parallel session 1B: Ecotoxicology, effects on ecosystem services & ecological risks
Fish cells maintained in vitro constitute an interesting tool to obtain information about the toxic action of a wide variety of substances, including nanomaterials, facilitating their prioritization for further testing or even being used directly in risk assessment. The aim of the present study was to assess the toxicity of a broad array of ENM (CeO2, multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNT), SiO2,...
Rachel Horta Arduin
(IPT, Brazil)
3/9/15, 11:50 AM
Parallel session 1C: Life Cycle Thinking & LCA
Nanoscale materials are used in diverse areas, and the huge potential of these technologies resulted in a considerable growth in investment in research and development worldwide. Since the 2000â•˙s the Brazilian government has set a national program to develop and disseminate nanotechnology. Brazil was the 25th country in the world ranking of publications in this field in 2006. The purpose of...
Nicole Neubauer
(BASF SE)
3/9/15, 11:54 AM
Parallel session 1A: Occupational & Consumer Exposure
"As nanomaterial containing materials may undergo changes during their production, use, and disposal, it is highly desirable to include their whole life cycle into an assessment of their safety. Coloristic pigments are used ubiquitously to give colour to plastics and paints. However, there is a knowledge gap with regard to their nano-specific safety. Therefore, we studied the release of an...
Maria Luisa Frenandez-Cruz
(INIA, Spain)
3/9/15, 11:54 AM
Parallel session 1B: Ecotoxicology, effects on ecosystem services & ecological risks
Hernández-Moreno D.1, Li L. 2, Connolly M. 1, Conde E. 3, Fernández M. 3, Schuster M. 4, Navas J.M. 1, Fernández-Cruz M.L. 1*
1. Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), Departamento de Medio Ambiente, Carretera de la Coruña Km 7
Madrid, Spain
2. State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental...
Beatrice Salieri
(EMPA)
3/9/15, 12:10 PM
Parallel session 1C: Life Cycle Thinking & LCA
A new modeling framework in life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) is proposed for the calculation of Characterisation Factor (CF) for nanomaterials (such as nano-TiO2 or CNT) for toxicity impact categories. In the recently developed consensus model for ecotoxicity and human toxicity, the USEtoxTM model, the CF is calculated as the product of three factors: Fate Factor, Effect Factor, and...
Nubia Zuverza-Mena
(UTEP)
3/9/15, 12:18 PM
Parallel session 1B: Ecotoxicology, effects on ecosystem services & ecological risks
In this study, copper-based nanoparticle (NP) or compounds are investigated for their potential harm to the environment, using cilantro as the model species. Cilantro plants were exposed to Cu(OH)2, nanosized copper (nCu), microsized copper (uCu), nanosized copper oxide (nCuO), microsized copper oxide (uCuO), and CuCl2 at 20 and 80 mg/kg soil. After 30 days exposure, plant size, Cu...
Dhimiter Bello
(UMass Lowell, Dept. Work Environment)
3/9/15, 12:18 PM
Parallel session 1A: Occupational & Consumer Exposure
"Additional Authors: Jacqueline Isaacs; Northeastern University, Dept. Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Susan Woskie, UMass Lowell, Dept. Work Environment
Joey Mead; UMass Lowell, Dept. Plastics Engineering
Abstract: This study investigated airborne nanoparticle exposures generated during injection molding and grinding of polycarbonate carbon nanotube composites (PC/CNT). Particle...
Socorro Vazquez-Campos
(LEITAT Technological Center, Spain)
3/9/15, 12:30 PM
Parallel session 1C: Life Cycle Thinking & LCA
Additional Authors: Elisabet Fernández-Rosas, LEITAT Technological Center, efernandez@leitat.org
Gemma Vilar, LEITAT Technological Center, gvilar@leitat.org
Marta Escamilla, LEITAT Technological Center, mescamilla@leitat.org
Socorro Vázquez-Campos, LEITAT Technological Center, svazquez@leitat.org, Presenting Author
Abstract: The increasing use of nano-enabled products has brought...
Wouter Fransman
(TNO)
3/9/15, 12:42 PM
Parallel session 1A: Occupational & Consumer Exposure
A previously developed conceptual model (Schneider et al., 2011) offers a framework to describe the processes that affect the emission (at the source) and the fate of manufactured nanoparticles during transport to the receptor. This model was used to critically review available models for estimating occupational and consumer exposure and their applicability for exposure to NOAA. A selection of...
Jason White
(CT Agricultural Experiment Station)
3/9/15, 12:42 PM
Parallel session 1B: Ecotoxicology, effects on ecosystem services & ecological risks
Peter Vikesland
(Virginia Tech)
3/9/15, 12:50 PM
Parallel session 1C: Life Cycle Thinking & LCA
The increasing use of nanomaterials poses new challenges for their disposal and waste management. Moreover, several nanotechnologies employ resource-limited materials, such as precious metals and rare earth elements. It is therefore essential to develop strategies to recover and recycle these materials from nanowaste, and thus make nanotechnology more sustainable. However, at present, neither...
Antti J. Koivisto
(National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark)
3/9/15, 1:06 PM
Parallel session 1A: Occupational & Consumer Exposure
Additional authors: Alexander C.Ø. Jensen; National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Lersø Parkallé 105, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark; alj@nrcwe.dk
Kirsten I Kling; National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Lersø Parkallé 105, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark; kil@nrcwe.dk
Marcus Levin; National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Lersø Parkallé 105, Copenhagen...
Simon Little
(Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK)
3/9/15, 1:06 PM
Parallel session 1B: Ecotoxicology, effects on ecosystem services & ecological risks
The use of nanomaterials is now widespread and therefore it isexpected that they will eventually end up in the environment. The environmental effects of nanomaterials are now widely investigated on a wide range of organisms and endpoints. Nevertheless there is still much lack of information on their effects on multi-species systems and ecosystem services. In this presentation the effects of...
Fabio Piccinno
(EMPA)
3/9/15, 1:10 PM
Parallel session 1C: Life Cycle Thinking & LCA
" Additional Authors: Stefan Seeger, University of Zurich
Today, several LCAs of new materials are performed based on laboratory experiments. While this is helpful in understanding the production process, it gives no indication on how the environmental impact looks like for an industrial production. This also limits the comparability with existing material that is already produced in...
Wendel Wohlleben
(BASF SE)
3/9/15, 2:30 PM
Plenary Lecture 2: Benchmark nanomaterials and case studies to challenge the decision criteria of a ‘multiple perspective grouping framework
Giventhe vast number and diversity of materials considered as nanomaterials (NM) by the EC nanodefinition, hazard and risk assessments of each and every variant of NM are impracticable, undesirable and stand in contradiction to the legal requirement to reduce animal testing. A comprehensive multiple perspective framework combines grouping by intrinsic material properties, grouping by use,...
Vrishali Subramanian
(Ca' Foscari Univeristy, Venice)
3/9/15, 4:30 PM
Parallel session 2C: Industrial decision support tools
Nano-innovation can be impeded by significant knowledge and data gaps in the Environmental Health and Safety effects of Engineered Nanomaterials. The European Commission has funded a project on sustainable nanotechnology (SUN, http://www.sun-fp7.eu/) that aims to build tools to assess ecological and human health risks, environmental impacts, risk management measures and benefits of...
Greg Lowry
(Carnegie Mellon University)
3/9/15, 4:30 PM
Parallel session 2B: Environmental exposure, release & fate
A decade of research on nanomaterial fate and exposure has led to greater understanding of the environmental fate of nanomaterials, their potential risks (and benefits), and an overall better understanding of the role of nanophase materials in environmental processes such as nutrient cycling. This research has also led to a better understanding of how the system complexity makes predicting...
Chengfang Pang
(Ca' Foscari Univeristy - Venice)
3/9/15, 4:30 PM
Parallel session 2A: Toxicology and human health risks
With the advance in material science, silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are modified by different surface coatings. However, how these surface modifications influence the effects of AgNPs on human health is still largely unknown. We have evaluated the toxicity and pharmacokinetics of AgNPs coated with citrate, polyethylene glycol, polyvinylvpyrolidone and branched polyethyleneimine (Citrate AgNPs,...
Janeck J. Scott-Fordsmand
(Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University)
3/9/15, 4:50 PM
Parallel session 2B: Environmental exposure, release & fate
Additional Authors: Jose M. Navas,
INIA, Dpt. of Environment, Ctra. de la Coruña Km 7, E-28040 Madrid, Spain jmnavas@inia.es
Dick T.F.M. Roelofs,
Department of Ecological Science, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU
University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The
Netherlandsdick.roelofs@vu.nl
Kerstin Hund-Rinke
Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied...
Claudia Som
(EMPA)
3/9/15, 4:54 PM
Parallel session 2C: Industrial decision support tools
Additional Authors: Roland Hischier, Empa,roland.hischier@empa.ch
Bernd Nowack, Empa,bernd.nowack@empa.ch
Ingrid Hincapie, Empa, ingrid.hincapie@empa.ch
Dominic Notter, Empa, dominic.notter@empa.ch
Harrie E. Buist, TNO,harrie.buist@tno.nl
Wouter Fransman, TNO,wouter.fransman@tno.nl
Jörg Güttinger, NCB,joerg.guettinger@ncb.ch
Abstract: Small and medium sized enterprizes (SMEs) often...
Roberta Ruotolo
(Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma)
3/9/15, 5:00 PM
Parallel session 2A: Toxicology and human health risks
Nanotechnology is an emerging branch of applied science and technology for designing tools and devices at the nanoscale size (1-100 nm). Engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) have been widely used in fields such as electronics, medicine, physics, chemistry, biology, but also in the food and cosmetic industries. Little is known about the molecular mechanisms of cellular uptake and biological...
Nikolaus A. Bornhoft
(EMPA)
3/9/15, 5:10 PM
Parallel session 2B: Environmental exposure, release & fate
Material flow modeling constitutes an important tool to predict and understand the flows of materials through the technosphere into the environment. We present a new ╲Dynamic Probabilistic Material Flow Assessment (DPMFA) method, combining dynamic material flow modeling with probabilistic modeling. The new method represents a significant step forward compared to established MFA or dynamic...
Ceyda Oksel
(Institute of Particle Science and Engineering, School of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Leeds)
3/9/15, 5:18 PM
Parallel session 2C: Industrial decision support tools
"Abstract: Manufacture of nanometre particulate form products in suspensions is becoming increasingly important to the pharmaceutical, speciality chemical, and functional material industries. For instance, nano-processing is now used as an effective drug-delivery method for solid form hydrophobic pharmaceuticals due to the dramatically increased drug solubility and bioavailability at...
Haitam Elnakar
(Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering- University of Alberta)
3/9/15, 5:30 PM
Parallel session 2B: Environmental exposure, release & fate
Discharging combined sewer overflows (CSOs) directly or with minimal treatment into water bodies could elevate the concentrations of nanomaterials (NMs) in the receiving environment as a result of their extensive use in wide range of products. Among different NM types, fullerenes (C60) have been shown to pose risks on humans and aquatic organisms. Consequently, their fate and removal pathways...
Elisa Moschini
(University of Milano Bicocca)
3/9/15, 5:30 PM
Parallel session 2A: Toxicology and human health risks
"Abstract: Background
It has been demonstrated that CuO NPs are highly cytotoxic for the most of mammalian cells. The classical Trojan horse mechanism is retained to be the driver of cell death mainly after long exposure periods.
This work aims to demonstrate that CuO NPs may have specific cell reactivity in the first phases of exposure independent from intracellular ion...
Henning Wigger
(Department of Technological Design and Development, Faculty of Production Engineering, University of Bremen)
3/9/15, 5:42 PM
Parallel session 2C: Industrial decision support tools
Apart from completely novel functionalities, the utilization of nanomaterials (NMs) holds great promise for increasing the performance and efficiency of products and processes. In doing so, they are also expected to be more sustainable in that they may allow for products and processes that can provide better services using less material and energy. However, whether or not NMs do in fact...
Tian Yin Sun
(EMPA)
3/9/15, 5:50 PM
Parallel session 2B: Environmental exposure, release & fate
Currently little is known about engineered nanomaterial (ENM) concentrations in the environment. In 2009, we reported the first environmental concentrations for different ENM by applying probabilistic material flow modelling, which was recently updated to yield more comprehensive and up-to-date environmental concentrations of ENM. However, the used models are static and do not consider...
Federica Fernandez
(University of Palermo)
3/9/15, 6:00 PM
Parallel session 2A: Toxicology and human health risks
Nanotechnologies allow today many applications for building construction and cultural heritage preservation, through the availability on the market of smart materials, revolutionizing the traditional methods and techniques. These appear as groundbreaking and promising tools, being able to improve the performance of traditional building materials, like concrete, steel and glass. In particular,...
Karena Hester
(University of Limerick)
3/9/15, 6:06 PM
Parallel session 2C: Industrial decision support tools
Nanotechnology (NT) - the deliberate and purposeful design production use andmanipulation of nanomaterials encompasses disciplines including but not limited to chemistry, physics, material sciences, engineering, information technology, biotechnologies. While there is significant uncertainty in relation to the possible risks of the consequences of NT, there is significant certainty that NT...
Antonia Praetorius
(University of Vienna)
3/9/15, 6:10 PM
Parallel session 2B: Environmental exposure, release & fate
There has been a lot of debate in recent years regarding appropriate fate descriptors for engineered nanoparticles (ENPs), needed to predict ENP concentrations and transport in different environmental compartments. It is tempting to simply apply concepts for conventional organic pollutants, such as the use of equilibrium partition coefficients (e.g. Kow, Kd) in fate and risk assessment of...
Lynn L. Bergeson
(Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.)
3/10/15, 9:00 AM
Yehuda Benayahu
(Tel Aviv University)
3/10/15, 11:00 AM
Parallel session 3B: Ecotoxicology, effects on ecosystem services & ecological risks
Other authors:
C. Piller, E. Gunter-Hoch, F. Ben-Ami, N. Vlachou, D. Perivoliotis, A.F. Trompeta, A. Skarmoutsou, Y. Benayahu, C.A. Charitidis
Now-a-days the need for the manufacturing of engineered nanomaterials increases due to their performance, efficiency and decrease of total weigh in the applications they are used. However, not always large scale manufacturers or even small scale...
Deb Newberry
3/10/15, 11:00 AM
Parallel session 3C: Educational & curriculum in nanotechnology
Sustainability is acknowledged to consist of three segments; economic, environmental and societal. The environmental aspect encompasses in many cases the technology and science of nano materials and the interaction with biological systems and the surrounding environment. The 2 year nanotechnology program at Dakota County Technical College encompasses many aspects of nanotechnology...
Tewodros Asefa
(Rutgers University at New Brunswick)
3/10/15, 11:00 AM
Parallel session 3A: Safer by design products, production and processes
The lack of sustainable and efficient catalysts for many renewable energy applications (e.g., fuel cells and water splitting) and the unabated negative environmental impacts of fossil fuels remain among the most pressing issues facing the world today. In this talk I will discuss my research group’s recent effort s on the synthesis of heteroatomdoped metalfree or noble...
Maria Diez-Ortiz
(LEITAT, Spain)
3/10/15, 11:24 AM
Parallel session 3B: Ecotoxicology, effects on ecosystem services & ecological risks
Additional Authors:
- David Hernández-Moreno (hernandez.david@inia.es). Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), Carretera de la Coruña Km 7.5, Madrid, Spain.
- Juan José Izquierdo (igalvez@inia.es). Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), Carretera de la Coruña Km 7.5, Madrid, Spain.
- Dave Spurgeon...
Peter Vikesland
(Virginia Tech)
3/10/15, 11:24 AM
Parallel session 3C: Educational & curriculum in nanotechnology
The Virginia Tech Sustainable Nanotechnology Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Program (SuN‐IGEP) is a cross-university effort to promote interdisciplinary research in the general area of Sustainable
Nanotechnology. This presentation will discuss the successes and challenges of this program, which provides financial support for a number of Ph.D. students with the goal to support...
Martin Mullins
(University of Limerick)
3/10/15, 11:30 AM
Parallel session 3A: Safer by design products, production and processes
Despite the widespread use of nanomaterials and nanotechnologies, little is known about the characteristics of the firms that comprise the industry. For instance, despite many studies opening with forecasts of a rapidly evolving industry with projected revenues of billions of euro, the industry’s boundaries are not clearly delineated. By virtue of dealing with materials or technologies on a...
Mehlika Ayla Kiser
(Catalan Institute for Water Research)
3/10/15, 11:48 AM
Parallel session 3C: Educational & curriculum in nanotechnology
Over the 3.8 Gyr since life is believed to have appeared on Earth, components of the natural world have evolved to function effectively and persist. Ecosystems are therefore rich sources of information and fundamental models of successful, sustainable strategies from which we can learn. Biomimicry is the study and imitation of nature’s designs and processes to solve human problems and is a...
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Phytotoxicity of carbon nanotubes in soybean is associated with disturbances of zinc homeostasis
Olga Zaytseva
(University of Hohenheim)
3/10/15, 11:48 AM
Parallel session 3B: Ecotoxicology, effects on ecosystem services & ecological risks
The effect of short-term seed treatments with multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs, 0 – 500 µg seed-1 during 36 h) on germination and seedling development of soybean was studied. CNTs decreased speed of the water uptake by soybean seeds and therefore reduced imbibition damages, which finally improved germination rate. However, at 8 days after sowing and even after 23 days of growth on a...
Simona Ortelli
(ISTEC-CNR, Italy)
3/10/15, 12:00 PM
Parallel session 3A: Safer by design products, production and processes
The growing importance of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) and their applications justifies the European successful promotion and growth of a nano-safety research. It is widely accepted that material designers, engineers, health and safety professionals, business leaders, should converge efforts to develop “Safety by design” (SbD) tools and implementing safer manufacturing processes. The...
Jason White
(Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station)
3/10/15, 12:12 PM
Parallel session 3B: Ecotoxicology, effects on ecosystem services & ecological risks
The increase in the production of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) has prompted concerns about their environmental release into and their impact on human health. Consumption of plants that have come in contact with nanomaterials is the most likely route by which humans could be exposed. Collaborative study of ENM accumulation in plants is underway with research efforts focused on an array of...
Albert Duschl
(University of Salzburg)
3/10/15, 12:12 PM
Parallel session 3C: Educational & curriculum in nanotechnology
The on-going FP7 project NanoEIS (www.nanoeis.eu) investigates European nanotechnology education practices and compares education contents to job skills that are in demand in the nanotechnology industry. Our studies show that industry expects to recruit experts in areas that are very poorly covered by university curricula, like health & safety, regulation & standardization, and environmental...
Valentina Marassi
(University of Bologna)
3/10/15, 12:30 PM
Parallel session 3A: Safer by design products, production and processes
Colloidal silver nanoparticles are known for their antimicrobial applications in everyday life items, and their use in commercial products is increasing; to investigate how and if nanoparticles may present harm for the environment and organisms, a characterization of their behavior in environmental/physiological media is required besides size, shape, activity and stability assessment....
Monica J. B. Amorim
(Univeristy of Aveiro)
3/10/15, 12:32 PM
Parallel session 3B: Ecotoxicology, effects on ecosystem services & ecological risks
Abstract: High-throughput gene expression tools can help understanding the mechanisms of toxic-mediated responses. Further, one of the main aims is to establish the link between alterations in macromolecules (genes, proteins) and their biological implications at higher levels (reproduction). Such data can be integrated via Adverse Outcome Pathways(AOPs) approach, and provide input towards a...
Ineke Malsh
(Malsch TechnoValuation)
3/10/15, 12:36 PM
Parallel session 3C: Educational & curriculum in nanotechnology
The international dialogue on responsible governance of nanotechnologies engages a wide range of actors with conflicting as well as common interests (c.f. Malsch, 2011). It is also characterised by a lack of evidence based data on uncertain risks of in particular engineered nanomaterials (c.f. IRGC, 2006). The SUN project aims to develop a SUNDS software decision support tool in order to...
Tom van Teunenbroek
(Tom van Teunenbroek, Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, NL)
3/10/15, 2:00 PM
Plenary Lecture 4: The quest for generating robust regulatory relevant data
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Evaluation of titanium dioxide nanoparticle fate and heteroaggregation in natural surface waters
Danielle Slomberg
(CEREGE)
3/10/15, 2:40 PM
Parallel session 4C: Environmental Release, Fate and Exposure
As development of engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) continues to progress, determination of ENP fate and impact on the natural environment remains challenging, and new strategies utilizing environmentally relevant system compositions and ENP concentrations (i.e., μg/L range) are warranted. Herein, we evaluated the fate of titanium dioxide (TiO2) ENPs in surface waters from a river (Rhône river,...
Ceyda Oksel
(University of Leeds)
3/10/15, 2:40 PM
Parallel session 4B: Toxicology and human health risks
There are increasing number of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) that have to be hazard
tested before they are allowed to be used in commercial and industrial applications. This requires new methodologies to be explored and implemented to rapidly and effectively screen and evaluate ENM toxicity. Data-driven models of nanostructure-biological activity relationships are becoming...
Laura Heggelund
(Technical University of Denmark)
3/10/15, 2:40 PM
Parallel session 4A: Recycling & Waste Management
Little research has been done to determine emissions of engineered nanomaterials (ENM) from currently available nano-enabled consumer products. While ENM release is expected to occur throughout the life cycle of the products, this study focuses on the product end-of-life (EOL) phase.
We used the Danish nanoproduct inventory (www.nanodb.dk) to get a general understanding of the fate of ENM...
Maria Joao Silva
(National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge)
3/10/15, 3:04 PM
Parallel session 4B: Toxicology and human health risks
Fundamental and application-driven research in nanotechnology is expected to boost nanoscience and innovation towards development of safe-by-design nanomaterials (NM). In this scenario, adding vast societal benefits, a multi-disciplinary approach to responsible innovation must be undertaken. Although the widespread use of NM, it is not clear whether they impact on environment and human health,...
Li-Piin Sung
(National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST))
3/10/15, 3:04 PM
Parallel session 4C: Environmental Release, Fate and Exposure
Additional Authors: Justin M. Gorham, NIST, justin.gorham@nist.gov
Lee L. Yu, NIST, lee.yu@nist.gov
Tinh Nguyen, NIST, tinh.nguyen@nist.gov
Nanocomposites are increasingly used in essentially every segment of the industry from consumer products to aerospace. Regardless the application, both the long-term performance of the composite itself and the fate of the nanomaterials in the matrix...
Alejandro Caballero Guzman
(EMPA)
3/10/15, 3:10 PM
Parallel session 4A: Recycling & Waste Management
As the number of nanoapplications increase, more and more waste with nanomaterials will be generated. A portion of this waste will enter the recycling system. The fate of these materials during and after the waste management and recycling operations is poorly understood. The aim of this work is to model the flows of nano-TiO2, nano-ZnO, nano-Ag and CNT in the recycling system in Switzerland....
Elijiah Petersen
(NIST)
3/10/15, 3:28 PM
Parallel session 4B: Toxicology and human health risks
Design and development of reliable cell-based nanotoxicology assays are important for evaluation of potentially hazardous engineered nanomaterials. Challenges to producing a reliable assay protocol include working with nanoparticle dispersions and living cell lines, and the potential for nano-related interference effects. We demonstrate the use of a 96-well plate design for a...
Melanie Kah
(University of Vienna)
3/10/15, 3:28 PM
Parallel session 4C: Environmental Release, Fate and Exposure
Research into nanotechnology applications for use in agriculture has become increasingly popular over the past decade. Investigations into the environmental fate of nanopesticides remain scarce however, and the current state of knowledge does not appear to be sufficient for a reliable assessment to be made of the benefits and risks associated with nanopesticides. It is not clear for...
Steffen Foss Hansen
(Technical University of Denmark)
3/10/15, 3:30 PM
Parallel session 4A: Recycling & Waste Management
It remains unclear what is available in Europe when it comes to consumer products containing nanomaterials (NM), which hampers quantitative exposure assessment. To provide an overview of available nanoproducts, we have established The Nanodatabase (www.nanodb.dk), an online inventory of products claimed by manufacturers, importers, retailers, and web-shops to contain nanomaterials. The...
Seda Keleştemur
(Yeditepe University)
3/10/15, 3:52 PM
Parallel session 4B: Toxicology and human health risks
The aim of the study is to develop new modification and synthesis strategies to reduce the toxicity of nanoparticles (NPs) used in ink and pigment industry. Zinc oxide (ZnO) NPs, quantum dots (QDs) and silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were selected NPs due to their high toxicity. Biocompatibility, stability in ink formulation, chemical suitability, cost and applicability are the main requirements...
Gregory Lowry
(Carnegie Mellon University)
3/10/15, 3:52 PM
Parallel session 4C: Environmental Release, Fate and Exposure
We introduce a spatially and temporally resolved mass balance model for sulfidized Ag NP and ZnO NP loadings to the James River Basin in Virginia. The model includes oxygen-, sulfide-, and temperature-dependent NP and byproduct (ion) transformations, oxic and anoxic sediment layers, and flow-dependent sediment transport. Although it has been generally ignored in NP fate models, surface runoff...
Fadri Gottschalk
(ETSS. Switzerland)
3/10/15, 4:00 PM
Parallel session 4A: Recycling & Waste Management
A full-scale experiment in a modern waste incineration plant showed that even inert nanoparticles (nano-CeO2) are successfully removed from the flue gas and transferred to the solid incineration residues.
Predicting the fate of nanomaterials in incineration plants with models based on real measurements would reduce the immense efforts (time and resources) for real-scale experiments. A model...
Susan Wijnhoven
(RIVM)
3/10/15, 4:16 PM
Parallel session 4B: Toxicology and human health risks
One of the main goals of work package 7 of the GUIDEnano project is to develop a risk assessment strategy for an NM-enabled product during its development and before introduction on the market. This risk assessment strategy is incorporated in the interactive web-based GUIDEnano Tool, which will guide the NM-enabled product developers (mainly industry) into the design and application of the...
Phil Demokritou
(Harvard University)
3/10/15, 4:16 PM
Parallel session 4C: Environmental Release, Fate and Exposure
Proliferation of Nano-enabled-Products (NEPs) has inevitably raised the urgent question of nano-release during their synthesis,
integration, processing, assembly, usage and eventually recycling or disposal at the end of their life cycle (LC). Apparently, there is a need to study and understand in a systematic manner the release mechanisms and possible exposure routes across the LC of NEPs in...
Mark Wiesner
(Duke University)
3/11/15, 9:15 AM
Plenary Lecture 5
Environmental transformations and exposure are key elements in determining the environmental and health effects of nanomaterials. Tools for predicting the environmental behaviour include functional assays that can be used to evaluate nanomaterial properties in complex or reference systems. Simulations show that nanoparticles introduced in a complex, albeit greatly simplified environment...
Frank von der Kammer
(University of Vienna)
3/11/15, 11:00 AM
Parallel session 5B: Tracking NM in complex matrices
The detection of engineered CeO2-NPs in complex natural media is very challenging due to the low expected CeO2-NP concentrations and the comparatively high background of Ce-containing minerals of similar size range. We here present a new analytical method, based on single particle (sp) ICP-MS analysis for identification and quantification of engineered cerium oxide nanparticles (CeO2-NPs). We...
Idris Yazgan
(SUNY-Binghamton)
3/11/15, 11:00 AM
Parallel session 5A: Safer by design products, production and processes
The integration of biological building-blocks with synthetic nanomaterials may permit unprecedented ability to detect, disinfect and completely remove pathogens in water. We hereby described the synthesis of biodegradable, interpenetrating polymeric networks of poly(amic) acid (PAA), glutaraldehde-derivatized PAA(PAA-GA) andchitosan-modified poly(amic)acid (PAA-CS) usingp hase-inversion...
Michael Steinfeldt
(Universität Bremen)
3/11/15, 11:00 AM
Parallel session 5C: Life cycle thinking & LCA
Nanotechnology is frequently described as an enabling technology and fundamental innovation, i.e. it is expected to lead to numerous innovative developments in the most diverse fields of technology and areas of application in society and the marketplace with sustainable and environmental benefits [1, 2, 3].
As a result and to enable sustainable nanoproducts in a life cycle perspective, the...
Vladimir Mirsky
(Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg)
3/11/15, 11:20 AM
Parallel session 5B: Tracking NM in complex matrices
A new technology developed within FP7 project “NANODETECTOR” provides a real-time detection of interaction of single nanoparticles with plasmonic surface. A number of the nanoparticle – surface binding events per time unit characterizes volume concentration of nanoparticles. A large value of the resonant surface allows us to detect many hundreds interactions in each frame, this leads to a very...
Alejandro Vilchez
(LEITAT Technological Center)
3/11/15, 11:30 AM
Parallel session 5C: Life cycle thinking & LCA
Additional Authors: Stefano Zuin, Venice Research Consortium, Via della Libertà 12, 30175 Venice / Italy
Socorro Vázquez-Campos, LEITAT Technological Center, c/ de la Innovació, 2, 08225, Barcelona / Spain
Abstract: Currently the potential impacts of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) on humans and the environment have generated considerable research interest, since their use and diversity of...
Christian Micheletti
(Venetonanotech)
3/11/15, 11:30 AM
Parallel session 5A: Safer by design products, production and processes
Adriënne Sips, National Institute for Public Health & the Environment (RIVM), The NetherlandsAdriënne Sips, National Institute for Public Health & the Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands - Adrienne.Sips@rivm.nl
Abstract: The NANoREG Safe-by-Design concept is as nano-related add-on, focusing on the safety part, for existing industrial innovations processes such as the Stage Gate Model...
Omowunmi Sadik
(SUNY-Binghamton)
3/11/15, 11:40 AM
Parallel session 5B: Tracking NM in complex matrices
Nanotechnology is creating new discoveries in areas such as medicine, automotive, energy, agriculture, remediation, consumer products and the entertainment industry. Central to the core of sustainable nanotechnology is the need to develop characterization parameters, metrological tools and protocols that can provide information on the interactions of engineered nanomaterials with complex...
Indrani Mahapatra
(School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham)
3/11/15, 12:00 PM
Parallel session 5C: Life cycle thinking & LCA
Unique physical and chemical properties and ease of surface functionalisation of GNPs makes it attractive for widespread use in the medical field. GNPs can be used as imaging agents, targeted delivery of therapeutic agents, photodynamic and photothermal therapy, detection of biomarkers, immunoassays, antibacterial, etc. However, mass production and use might give rise to potentially new...
Barbara Karn
(SNO/ George Washington University)
3/11/15, 12:00 PM
Parallel session 5A: Safer by design products, production and processes
The basis of nanotechnology is the manufacture, characterization and use of new nanomaterials with properties that replace, improve, or create useful products. However, in order to be sustainable, these new materials must be made in sustainable ways—without generating the old pollutants, without using more energy, and without causing environmental impacts at any of their life...
Anna A. Antsiferova
(National Research Centre “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow, 123182 Russia, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technologies, Moscow, Russia)
3/11/15, 12:00 PM
Parallel session 5B: Tracking NM in complex matrices
A.A. Antsiferova 1,2, Yu.P. Buzulukov 1,2, V.A. Demin 1,2, V.F. Demin 1,2, P.K. Kashkarov 1,2,3
1 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technologies, Moscow Region, 141700 Russia
2 National Research Centre “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow, 123182 Russia
3 Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991 Russia
The problem of nanosafety appeared about 10 years ago and is due to wide use of...
Kenneth Dawson
(Centre for BioNano Interactions, University College Dublin)
3/11/15, 12:20 PM
Parallel session 5B: Tracking NM in complex matrices
Anna Luisa Costa
(ISTEC - CNR)
3/11/15, 12:30 PM
Parallel session 5A: Safer by design products, production and processes
Vyacheslav A. Demin
(National Research Centre “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow, 123182 Russia, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technologies, Moscow Russia)
3/11/15, 12:30 PM
Parallel session 5C: Life cycle thinking & LCA
V.A. Demin 1,2, I.V. Gmoshinsky 3, V.F. Demin 1,2, A.A. Antsiferova 1,2, P.K. Kashkarov 1,2,4
1 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow Region, 141700 Russia
2 National Research Centre “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow, 123182 Russia
3 RAS Scientific Research Institute of Nutrition, Moscow, 109240 Russia
4 Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991 Russia
In this work we...
Michael Stintz
(TU Dresden, Institute of Chemical Engineering)
3/11/15, 12:40 PM
Parallel session 5B: Tracking NM in complex matrices
CEN/TC 352 “Nanotechnologies” /WG 3 “Health, safety and environmental aspects” has launched a preliminary work item CEN/TS (00352012) Nanotechnologies – Guidance on detection and identification of nano-objects in complex matrices in 2014.
It is the scope of this Technical Specification to provide guidelines for detection and identification of specific nano-objects in complex matrices, like...
Antti J. Koivisto
(National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Lersø Parkallé 105, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark)
3/11/15, 4:00 PM
Parallel session 6B: Occupational and consumer exposure
Additional Authors: Kirsten I Kling; National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Lersø Parkallé 105, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark; kil@nrcwe.dk
Marcus Levin; National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Lersø Parkallé 105, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark; mle@nrcwe.dk
Keld A. Jensen; National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Lersø Parkallé 105, Copenhagen DK-2100,...
Olga D. Hendrickson
(A.N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences)
3/11/15, 4:00 PM
Parallel Session 6A:Toxicology and human health risks
Additional Authors: Olga V. Morozova, A.N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, morozova@inbi.ras.ru;
Svetlana M. Pridvorova, A.N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, sh-p_s@mail.ru;
Tatyana A. Platonova, A.N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, platonova@inbi.ras.ru;
Alexander I. Yaropolov, A.N. Bach Institute of...
Frank von der Kammer
(University of Vienna)
3/11/15, 4:00 PM
Parallel session 6C: Environmental exposure, release & fate
Globally industrial production of engineered nanoparticles increases dramatically, what raises concerns about their release and fate in the environment. There are numbers of methods for nanoparticle characterization and detection including TEM, DLS, NTA and many others but not one of these methods is fit for purpose regarding mainly low detection limits in ng/L range, which is environmentally...
Lorette Scifo
(CEREGE)
3/11/15, 4:24 PM
Parallel session 6C: Environmental exposure, release & fate
It is now acknowledged that nanomaterials will experience several transformations along their life cycle, upon formulation, production processes, aging and disposal. However most efforts still focus on assessing the impact of pristine nanomaterials, while formulated and aged nanomaterials are rarely investigated, resulting in significant knowledge gap. This situation is due for a great part to...
Enrico Bergamaschi
(University of Parma)
3/11/15, 4:24 PM
Parallel Session 6A:Toxicology and human health risks
Additional Authors: Adriele Prina-Mello
School of Medicine and CRANN
Institute of Molecular Medicine, Trinity Centre of Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland
prinamea@tcd.ie
Abstract: The ability to predict and then mitigate potential health effects is mandatory for sustainability of nanotechnology. Although screening strategies to expedite hazard and risk assessment (RA) of engineered...
Keld A. Jensen
("National Research Centre for the Working Environment ")
3/11/15, 4:30 PM
Parallel session 6B: Occupational and consumer exposure
Additional Authors: A.Ø. Jensen, National Research Centre for the Working Environment
B. Liguori, Technical University of Denmark
A.J. Koivisto, National Research Centre for the Working Environment
I.K. Koponen, National Research Centre for the Working Environment
Abstract: The OECD WPMNM (Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials) has listed dustiness as a priority data for risk...
Mr
Geert Cornelis
(Gothenburg University)
3/11/15, 4:48 PM
Parallel session 6C: Environmental exposure, release & fate
Interest in applying single particle ICP-MS (spICP-MS) in risk assessment of inorganic engineered nanomaterials (ENM) has been increasing because it is currently the only technique capable of measuring number-based particle size distributions of ENM at the likely low number concentrations in complex environments. However, the cumbersome treatment of large spICP-MS datasets slows the widespread...
Massimiliano Bianchi
(Department of Biomedical Biotechnological and Translational Sciences, University of Parma, Italy)
3/11/15, 4:48 PM
Parallel Session 6A:Toxicology and human health risks
Additional Authors: Enrico Bergamaschi
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Parma, Italy
enrico.bergamaschi@unipr.it
Abstract: Nanomaterials may bind bioactive environmental contaminants, such as bacterial endotoxins, thus potentially acting as carriers for toxicants. To investigate the functional implications of this interaction, we have investigated the...
Dhimiter Bello
(UMass Lowell)
3/11/15, 5:00 PM
Parallel session 6B: Occupational and consumer exposure
This presentation will analyze the pitfalls of current nanoparticle exposure metrics for health effects studies using real-world exposure scenarios. Through case studies and literature review, the talk will emphasize the critical and, at present, unmet need for more selectivity in the chemical characterization of airborne nano aerosols, and exploration of the concept of dose that integrates...
Joan Cabellos
(LEITAT Technological Center)
3/11/15, 5:12 PM
Parallel Session 6A:Toxicology and human health risks
"Additional Authors: CRAIG POLAND ; Institute of Occupational Medicine; Craig.Poland@iom-world.org
ENRICO BERGAMASCHI; University of Parma; enrico.bergamaschi@unipr.it
LUCIA MIGLIORE; University of Pisa; l.migliore@geog.unipi.it
ANNA COSTA;Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologia dei Materiali Ceramici; anna.costa@istec.cnr.it
Abstract: Given ethical, technical and economical considerations,...
Gilbert M. Rios
(European Memrane House (EMH))
3/11/15, 5:12 PM
Parallel session 6C: Environmental exposure, release & fate
In all the countries the appetite of scientists for nanotechnology, and the belief in its ability to provide more efficient solutions to technical issues that are facing our societies, have been growing very fast during the last decade. Also, a tremendous development of membrane technologies has led to consider them like "dominant technologies", with the emergence of a new think-tank /...
Derk Brouwer
(TNO Innovation for Life)
3/11/15, 5:30 PM
Parallel session 6B: Occupational and consumer exposure
Occupational dermal exposure to NOAA can be relevant in view of penetration through the skin, local skin effects and inadvertent ingestion. The potential for consequences of dermal exposure to nanomaterials will be determined by both parameters of exposure and other parameters. With respect to penetration and local effects, the integrity of the skin is an important determinant , whereas...
Nathan Bossa
(CEREGE-INERIS)
3/11/15, 5:36 PM
Parallel session 6C: Environmental exposure, release & fate
The industrial scale production and wide variety of applications of manufactured nanoparticles (NPs) and their possible release into the natural aquatic environment have produced an increasing concern among the nanotechnology and environmental science community.
Nanomaterials are used in construction to improve the properties and functions of commonly used building materials like cement,...
Manfredi Allegri
(Dept. of Biomedical, Biotechnological and Translational Sciences (SBiBiT), University of Parma)
3/11/15, 5:36 PM
Parallel Session 6A:Toxicology and human health risks
A strict relationship between the toxicity of fiber-like nanomaterials and their aspect ratio emerges from the fiber paradigm. As a consequence, fiber shortening is expected to reduce material toxicity. Titanium dioxide nanofibers (TiO2NF) are a novel fibrous nanomaterial, used in several industrial applications but still requiring complete toxicological characterization. We evaluated the...
John Warner
(US Naval Research Laboratory)
Plenary Lecture 6: Entropic control, Sustainable Nanotechnology at the molecular level