First public workshop of NanoDefine
The First NanoDefine Public Workshop on Classification of Materials according to the EU Nano-Definition, was held on 17 June 2015 at the Newhotel “Charlemagne” in Brussels . The goal of …
Post-Doctoral Expression of Interest (EoI)
Call for applications to a Post-Doctoral proposal to submit to the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) call (deadline 11th May 2015) within the EU project: “SUN-Sustainable Nanotechnologies”, a large …
NanoDefine participates in the EuroNanoForum 2015 Joint Seminar on Nanosafety, 12 June 2015, Riga, Latvia
Joint Seminar on NanoSafety – ProSafe- NANoREG- SIINN – OECD – NanoDefine, NanoValid Background Information and Motivation Consumer acceptance of nanomaterials and their products depends on a high level of …
EU NanoSafety Cluster – Key Global NanoSafety Database Survey
The EU NanoSafety Cluster announces the availability of an online NanoSafety Database Survey This survey is a first in a biannual continuous effort and attempt to collect, organise and share …
How reliably can a material be classified as a nanomaterial? Available particle-sizing techniques at work
Abstract Currently established and projected regulatory frameworks require the classification of materials (whether nano or non-nano) as specified by respective definitions, most of which are based on the size of …
Error propagation at the conversion of particle size distributions
Highlights Theoretical analysis of error propagation when converting size distributions Introducing a new parameter in data analysis: the total error propagation factor Examination of error propagation for different kinds of …
Electrospray Deposition of Nanoparticles on TEM Grids
Introduction Although there are many experimental techniques for measuring particle sizes and size distributions, electron microscopy (EM) is still considered as the gold standard in this field, especially, when it …
Reliable nanomaterial classification of powders using the volume-specific surface area method
Abstract The volume-specific surface area (VSSA) of a particulate material is one of two apparently very different metrics recommended by the European Commission for a definition of “nanomaterial” for regulatory …
Evaluation of Electrospray as a Sample Preparation Tool for Electron Microscopic Investigations: Toward Quantitative Evaluation of Nanoparticles
Abstract The potential of electrospray deposition, for the controlled preparation of particles for imaging in electron microscopes, is evaluated on various materials: from mono-modal suspensions of spherical particles to multimodal …
A technique-driven materials categorisation scheme to support regulatory identification of nanomaterials
Abstract Worldwide there is a variety of regulatory provisions addressing nanomaterials. The identification as nanomaterial in a regulatory context often has the consequence that specific legal rules apply. In identifying …