The contributions of nanomaterials to medicine, and the needed role played by their characterisation were discussed at a workshop held in London on 10 July 2018 and organised by the Institute of Physics (Materials and Characterisation Group). NanoFASE work package leader Dr Alison Crossley co-organised and chaired the meeting wh...
Find the latest project news and events under ‘Focus on NanoFASE’ Well, the World Cup and Wimbledon might be over now, but worry not, as the most 'newsy' Nanosafety Cluster Newsletter promises to entertain those curious to know some of the latest development in nanoscience. Alongside with new ...
One of the key challenges for the NanoFASE project is linking simple and robust laboratory-based techniques and protocols to what is likely to happen in the complex systems in our environment. NanoFASE WP9 on Bioavailability, bioaccumulation and food chain transport bridges this gap with mesocosm experiments that simulate ...
NanoFASE organized a Hands-on Stakeholder Consultation at SETAC Rome – SETAC Europe 28th Annual Meeting, May 14, 2018. The 2-hour event was a hands-on guided tour for regulatory, academic and consultancy stakeholders presenting the concepts and approaches underpinning the our clickable Exposure Assessment Framework –...
NanoFASE took the road to Rome for the 28th annual meeting of SETAC Europe, presenting papers and posters, chairing sessions and offering a workshop. For Claus Svendsen, NanoFASE project coordinator, "The SETAC conference is one of the most important opportunities in the year to talk with our peers and end users whose wo...
NanoFASE partners Alison Crossley (Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Materials Characterisation Service, Oxford University Begbroke Science Park) and Barry Park (Director, GBP Consulting Ltd) attended a UK Royal Society of Chemistry/National Physical laboratory Symposium on 24th April 2018 on Nanoparticle concentration – crit...
The NanoSight Sample Assistant is a versatile and compact system that enables precise, reproducible and automated loading of samples from a 96-well plate into NanoSight NS300. The Malvern Panalytical NanoSight NS300 Instrument provides an easy-to-use, reproducible platform for nanoparticle characterization. The NS300 allows rapi...
Our NanoFASE project partner Amepox won 1st prize in the Sustainable Exploration Prize organized by Space Exploration Masters in Luxemburg on November 17-18, 2017. The AIRBUS-MERCK Sustainable Exploration Prize is dedicated for ideas that enable a sustainable space environment and human life in space. Our NanoFASE project partne...
NanoFASE Organizes Full-Day Scientific Session at SETAC Rome by Iseult Lynch Session 3.24 @SETAC Europe 2018: "The environment as a reactor determining fate and toxicity of nanomaterials" is co-chaired by Susana Loureiro (UoA, pictured), C.A.M. van Gestel (Vu), Iseult Lynch (UoB), and Claus Svendsen (NERC). ...
Help shape the NanoFASE Framework! The NanoFASE integrated environmental Exposure Assessment Framework applicable to engineered nanomaterials will enable understanding and prediction on the "exposure" side of the risk assessment equation (Risk = Exposure x Hazard). If you are attending SETAC Rome – ...
Three senior NanoFASE scientists (Claus Svendsen, coordinator; Stephen Lofts, modelling work package leader - both NERC CEH; Joris Quik, exposure modelling expert, RIVM) were asked to attend the 10th meeting of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) Nanomaterials Expert Group (NMEG),7-8 November 2017, in Helsinki. The NMEG is an e...
Shaping the NanoFASE Portal to Manage Nanomaterials Stock, Orders and Data WP3 (Iseult Lynch, University of Birmingham) ENM Supply, Transformation and Metrology for Experimental Studies NanoFASE uses industry-produced nanomaterials for realism, and bespoke synthesized particles suitable for more controlled experiments...
Interview with Prof. Peter Dobson OBE, NanoFASE International Advisory Board Chair Professor Peter Dobson, Chair of the NanoFASE Advisory Board attended our Lancaster Annual Progress Meeting (September 2017) and provided detailed feedback on the scientific progress. Prof. Dobson's wide-ranging career is in tune with ...
Our second Annual Project Meeting (Lancaster, Sept. 2017) benefitted from the active presence of our Industry Partners (see our Consortium webpage). A special session allowed these partners to present their contribution to NanoFASE research and also their expectations for the second half of the project. We sat down with repre...
Andreas' speech from the ICEEN award ceremony (Sept. 2017) shares his perspective on the field and acknowledges guiding lights It is a great honor to receive this award in memory of Professor Steve Klaine, and to be asked to share some thoughts about the field of environmental nanosciences. The motivation behind m...
NanoFASE is developing a state-of-the-art integrated framework for assessing environmental release, fate and exposure for engineered nano materials. In dialogue with our Regulatory, Industry and Academic stakeholders, WP1 centres on developing the realism and pertinence of the NanoFASE case studies. Says leader Alison Cro...
From your shampoo and sunscreen to the shiny coating of your new car and electricals, nanoparticles are all around us, making our lives easier and bringing benefits every day. But what happens to nanoparticles when they leave the product they were intended for? This is a rather simplistic summary of the complex scientific que...
EUON, the EU Observatory for Nanomaterials Gets Boost from NanoSafety Cluster. Brussels, 18-19 October 2017 More than 40 people from academia, regulation, and industry, the European Commission (EC) and the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) gathered in Brussels with the NanoSafety Cluster (NSC) to identify how EU-funded...
Recently published in the peer reviewed journal Environmental Science: Nano, a new NanoFASE paper by researchers Alexander Gogos and Ralf Kägi, Eawag, Switzerland, and colleagues, looks at how fast copper oxide nanoparticles become sulfidized in wastewater treatment. "This paper features the first results from our in...
Next week’s 12th International Conference on the Environmental Effects of Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials (ICEENN 2017), will have a strong representation from the NanoFASE project. The conference, to be held 3-6 September at the University of Birmingham, UK, will include four invited speakers from the NanoFASE pro...
