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...
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...
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 /...
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,...