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  1. NanoFASE models and exposure assessment: overview, lessons learned and future developments

    09 Apr 2020 | Contributor(s):: Stephen Lofts

    Nano WG April 2, 2020: The H2020 NanoFASE project focused on the development of an environmental Exposure Assessment Framework for Nanomaterials. Key to the development of this framework were a number of environmental fate models: SimpleBox4Nano, a screening level multimedia model of...

  2. The Materials Genome Initiative and the Materials Data Infrastructure

    31 Mar 2020 | Contributor(s):: James Warren

    Presentation on current efforts to build out the materials data infrastructure in support of the US Materials Genome Initiative and discussion on  incentives that need to be in place to realize program goals.

  3. Advances in the reliability of nanotoxicity assays

    27 Feb 2020 | Contributor(s):: Elijah Petersen

    Nano WG February 20, 2020Abstract: With the increasing usage of nanotechnology in consumer products, it is important to develop accurate methods to assess the potential adverse effects of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) on humans or environmentally important organisms. However, many of these...

  4. Nanomaterials & Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety: Overview with Focus on nano-hydroxyapatite and Silica

    23 Jan 2020 | Contributor(s):: Frederick C. Klaessig

    Nano WG January 23, 2020The EU’s Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety advises the European Commission on the safety of products covered by the Cosmetics Directive, which includes personal care products as well as cosmetics. In the 2013-2016 time period, the Committee published...

  5. Read across in nanosafety research: Dissolution behaviour of a library of 37 nanomaterials in simplified physiological media

    05 Nov 2019 | Contributor(s):: Tassos Papadiamantis, Emily Guggenheim, Antreas Afantitis, Sophie Briffa, Georgia Melagraki, Iseult Lynch, Eugenia Valsami-Jones

    NanoWorkingGroup, 31 October 2019The dissolution of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) is a complex process, which remains poorly understood despite being one of the key prerequisites for the risk assessment of ENMs, and having a direct influence on toxicological and eco-toxicological effects....

  6. Accelerating Nanotech Innovations Through a Safer-By-Design Approach, Safer Nanomaterials School

    14 May 2019 | Contributor(s):: Philippe Sabatier

    Nano WG May 9, 2019European Scientific Institute (ESI) Safer Nanomaterials School Introduction.

  7. Innovative Nanoinformatics models and tools: towards a Solid, verified and Integrated Approach to Predictive (eco)Toxicology (NanoSolveIT)

    04 Feb 2019 | Contributor(s):: Antreas Afantitis

    Nano WG January 17, 2019NanoSolveIT (a new H2020 nanoinformatics project) aspires to introduce a ground-breaking in silico Integrated Approach to Testing and Assessment (IATA) for the environmental health and safety of Nanomaterials (NM), implemented through a decision support system packaged...

  8. Tassos Papadiamantis

    Anastasios (Tassos) Papadiamantis comes from Athens, Greece and has a BSc in Physics with specialisation in Atomic – Molecular Physics and LASERs from the Physics Department and an...

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  9. Dissolution as a Paradigm in Regulating Nanomaterials

    16 Aug 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Frederick C. Klaessig

    Nano WG presentation, August 10, 2017 Themes: • Dissolution as a decision criterion • Analogies to ζ-potential & VSSA • Relation to nanoform & nanoscale form • Dissolution kinetics and artifacts • ASTM particle ontology & Nanoinformatics Roadmap...

  10. caNanoLab Overview

    05 Jul 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Stephanie Morris, Mervi Heiskanen

    General Overview of the caNanoLab data portal: data submission workflow, collaboration features, data sharing and working with Journals and PubMed to share information about data submissions.

  11. The impact of engineered nanomaterials on aquatic species: ISA-TAB compatible dataset mined from literature (2007-2016)

    13 Jun 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Anastasios Papadiamantis

    Nano WG presentation, June 8, 2017Primary scope of the project was to: Model the toxicity of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) at multiple levels and design and create a database (DB) containing extracted peer-reviewed published toxicity dataAnalyse the extracted data and identify...

  12. European Chemical Agency's work to implement REACH regulation for nanomaterials

    04 May 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Frank Le Curieux

    Nano WG presentation on May 4, 2017.  REACH = Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation (& restriction) of Chemicals aims to ensure a high level of protection of human health and the environment while enhancing competitiveness and innovation. Nano materials are covered by...

  13. Data Readiness Levels

    13 Aug 2015 |

    Nanotechnology Signature InitiativeNanotechnology Knowledge Infrastructure (NKI):Enabling National Leadership in Sustainable DesignDraft Discussion Document: May 9, 2013

  14. Overview of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Nanotechnology Characterizaton Laboratory (NCL)

    03 Nov 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Jennifer Hall Grossman

    Working in concert with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) established the Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory to perform preclinical efficacy and toxicity testing of...

  15. Values Of Precision and the Societal Implications Of Data Readiness Levels

    19 Jun 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Sharon Ku

  16. Nina Jeliazkova

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  17. caNanoLab: data sharing to expedite the use of nanotechnology in biomedicine

    13 Dec 2013 | | Contributor(s):: Sharon Gaheen, George W Hinkal, Stephanie A Morris, Michal Lijowski, Mervi Heiskanen, Juli Klemm

    The use of nanotechnology in biomedicine involves the engineering of nanomaterials to act as therapeutic carriers, targeting agents and diagnostic imaging devices. The application of nanotechnology in cancer aims to transform early detection, targeted therapeutics and cancer prevention and...