EU-OSHA. European Agency for Safety and Health at Work.
The huge scope, novelty, excitement about promised benefits coupled with the uncertainty and low current level of understanding in a rapidly changing scientific field poses significant challenges for risk communication on ENM to workplaces.
• Risk communication strategies need to handle these uncertainties and to be able to adapt to facilitate reframing and redefining of the issues as they change with the emergence of new ENM and scientific knowledge.
• Because there is as yet no outright rejection of nanotechnology, policy- makers have the opportunity to define how to frame communication on ENM to promote a sensible risk management. Once this frame has been found it needs to be used consistently among stakeholders.
• In order to ensure long-term success of risk communication initiatives to workplaces, these should inform decisions that employers make about workplaces and support them in implementing adequate prevention measures; and empower individual workers to exert personal control over their own situations and environments
EU-OSHA. European Agency for Safety and Health at Work.
The huge scope, novelty, excitement about promised benefits coupled with the uncertainty and low current level of understanding in a rapidly changing scientific field poses significant challenges for risk communication on ENM to workplaces.
• Risk communication strategies need to handle these uncertainties and to be able to adapt to facilitate reframing and redefining of the issues as they change with the emergence of new ENM and scientific knowledge.
• Because there is as yet no outright rejection of nanotechnology, policy- makers have the opportunity to define how to frame communication on ENM to promote a sensible risk management. Once this frame has been found it needs to be used consistently among stakeholders.
• In order to ensure long-term success of risk communication initiatives to workplaces, these should inform decisions that employers make about workplaces and support them in implementing adequate prevention measures; and empower individual workers to exert personal control over their own situations and environments
As with all materials, if you work with nanoparticles a few minutes of thought about safety will help you avoid problems later. Dr. Dominick Fazarro of the University of Texas at Tyler discusses nanoparticle safety. This talk provides a reasonable discussion of the potential hazards of nanoparticles and steps that can be taken to reduce these hazards.
This talk is useful for those who work with nanoparticles or manage a facility that handles nanoparticles.
Wayne State University Laboratory Safety TrainingElena Fracassa
This training addresses basic laboratory safety issues for WSU labs and is required annually for all laboratory faculty, staff, and students working with hazardous chemicals.
Topics covered:
Contents of the OSHA Lab Standard (29 CFR 1910.1450)
WSU Chemical Hygiene Plan
Physical and health hazards of chemicals
Safety equipment in the laboratory
Safe handling and storage of chemicals
Hazard Communication & Global Harmonization System of Classifying & Labeling Chemicals
Safety Data Sheets
Personal Protective Equipment
Explanation of EPA, MDEQ, and DOT regulations
Explanation of the WSU Emergency Contingency Plan
Lab responsibilities as a hazardous waste generators
Definitions of hazardous waste
Procedures for collection, labeling, storage and removal of waste
Responding to injuries, spills, fires, and other emergencies in the lab
The importance of data curation on QSAR Modeling: PHYSPROP open data as a cas...Kamel Mansouri
This presentation highlighted how data curation impacts the reliability of QSAR models. We examined key datasets related to environmental endpoints to validate across chemical structure representations (e.g., mol file and SMILES) and identifiers (chemical names and registry numbers), and approaches to standardize data into QSAR-ready formats prior to modeling procedures. This allowed us to quantify and segregate data into quality categories. This improved our ability to evaluate the resulting models that can be developed from these data slices, and to quantify to what extent efforts developing high-quality datasets have the expected pay-off in terms of predicting performance. The most accurate models that we build will be accessible via our public-facing platform and will be used for screening and prioritizing chemicals for further testing.
Laboratory Safety, Biomedical Waste & Its ManagementArun Babu
Nowadays "Safety" takes up a major role in all the Laboratories, let it be safety equipment or safety measures. This powerpoint gives you a rough idea of the various hazards that may occur in a laboratory and the steps to be taken to prevent them. Also a small note is given on the Biomedical Waste and its management.
Nanotechnology: Basic introduction to the nanotechnology.Sathya Sujani
This simple presentation will help you to understand the every aspects of nanotechnology including basic definition and it's practical application in a very simple yet precise manner.
These slides use concepts from my (Jeff Funk) course entitled analyzing hi-tech opportunities to analyze improvements in the economic feasibility of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for transparent electrodes and flywheels. Improvements in the transparency and cost of CNTs are enabling CNTs to replace indium tin oxide in applications such as solar cells and displays. Second, as the cost of CNTs falls through improvements in processes and increases in the scale of equipment, they will become economically feasible for flywheels. Since the energy storage density of flywheels is directly proportional to the strength to weight ration of the flywheel material, CNTs (and graphene) have potential energy storage densities that are ten times the current energy storage densities of carbon fiber-based flywheels and Li-ion batteries. This means that carbon nanotubes are an important tool in the battle against fossil-fuel dependency and global warming.
As with all materials, if you work with nanoparticles a few minutes of thought about safety will help you avoid problems later. Dr. Dominick Fazarro of the University of Texas at Tyler discusses nanoparticle safety. This talk provides a reasonable discussion of the potential hazards of nanoparticles and steps that can be taken to reduce these hazards.
This talk is useful for those who work with nanoparticles or manage a facility that handles nanoparticles.
Wayne State University Laboratory Safety TrainingElena Fracassa
This training addresses basic laboratory safety issues for WSU labs and is required annually for all laboratory faculty, staff, and students working with hazardous chemicals.
Topics covered:
Contents of the OSHA Lab Standard (29 CFR 1910.1450)
WSU Chemical Hygiene Plan
Physical and health hazards of chemicals
Safety equipment in the laboratory
Safe handling and storage of chemicals
Hazard Communication & Global Harmonization System of Classifying & Labeling Chemicals
Safety Data Sheets
Personal Protective Equipment
Explanation of EPA, MDEQ, and DOT regulations
Explanation of the WSU Emergency Contingency Plan
Lab responsibilities as a hazardous waste generators
Definitions of hazardous waste
Procedures for collection, labeling, storage and removal of waste
Responding to injuries, spills, fires, and other emergencies in the lab
The importance of data curation on QSAR Modeling: PHYSPROP open data as a cas...Kamel Mansouri
This presentation highlighted how data curation impacts the reliability of QSAR models. We examined key datasets related to environmental endpoints to validate across chemical structure representations (e.g., mol file and SMILES) and identifiers (chemical names and registry numbers), and approaches to standardize data into QSAR-ready formats prior to modeling procedures. This allowed us to quantify and segregate data into quality categories. This improved our ability to evaluate the resulting models that can be developed from these data slices, and to quantify to what extent efforts developing high-quality datasets have the expected pay-off in terms of predicting performance. The most accurate models that we build will be accessible via our public-facing platform and will be used for screening and prioritizing chemicals for further testing.
Laboratory Safety, Biomedical Waste & Its ManagementArun Babu
Nowadays "Safety" takes up a major role in all the Laboratories, let it be safety equipment or safety measures. This powerpoint gives you a rough idea of the various hazards that may occur in a laboratory and the steps to be taken to prevent them. Also a small note is given on the Biomedical Waste and its management.
Nanotechnology: Basic introduction to the nanotechnology.Sathya Sujani
This simple presentation will help you to understand the every aspects of nanotechnology including basic definition and it's practical application in a very simple yet precise manner.
These slides use concepts from my (Jeff Funk) course entitled analyzing hi-tech opportunities to analyze improvements in the economic feasibility of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for transparent electrodes and flywheels. Improvements in the transparency and cost of CNTs are enabling CNTs to replace indium tin oxide in applications such as solar cells and displays. Second, as the cost of CNTs falls through improvements in processes and increases in the scale of equipment, they will become economically feasible for flywheels. Since the energy storage density of flywheels is directly proportional to the strength to weight ration of the flywheel material, CNTs (and graphene) have potential energy storage densities that are ten times the current energy storage densities of carbon fiber-based flywheels and Li-ion batteries. This means that carbon nanotubes are an important tool in the battle against fossil-fuel dependency and global warming.
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were carried out with a three-body Tersoff potential force field to predict the transversely isotropic elastic properties of pristine and defected BNNTs. This is accomplished by imposing uniaxial tension, twisting moment, in-aplane shear and in-plane biaxial tension to the BNNTs. Effects of various factors such as chirality and diameter of BNNTs, vacancy concentration, and distribution of vacancy pores along the length and circumference of BNNTs were critically examined. Our study reveals that the elastic coefficients of BNNTs decrease as their diameter increase, except axial Young’s modulus. Young’s modulus of BNNT increases with the diameter and reaches its maximum value when the tube diameter is ∼14 Å and then it starts decreasing. We also found that the axial Young’s modulus of a BNNT increases as its aspect ratio increases and stabilizes at a particular value of aspect ratio (L/D ∼ 15). The vacancies greatly affect the elastic properties of BNNTs; for instance, the vacancy concentration of 2% in (10, 10) BNNT reduce its axial Young’s, shear, plane strain bulk and in-plane shear moduli by 14%, 25%, 14% and 18%, respectively. Furthermore, we studied the electronic properties of pristine and defective BNNTs under four transversely isotropic loading conditions using the strain effective method. The results reveal that the electronic properties of BNNTs can be altered via different routes: loadings conditions, diameter and vacancy concentration. Our fundamental study highlights the critical role played by vacancy defected BNNTs in determining their elastic and electronic properties as they are vastly being used in multifarious applications such as nano-electronic devices and reinforcements in multifunctional nanocomposites
Synthesis and Characterization Studies of Solvothermally Synthesized Undoped ...IJERA Editor
Nanocrystalline TiO2 was investigated by solvothermal synthetic method using toluene as a solvent. Titanium tetra isopropoxide (TTIP) was used as a precursor, which was decomposed at high temperature and precipitated in toluene. Subsequently, the solution was thermally treated at 250C for five hours in stainless steel autoclave. Amorphous Nano TiO2 was formed. When these amorphous Nano TiO2 was calcinated to 550 C anatase Nano TiO2 crystalline with particle size <20 nm was formed. These amorphous and anatase phase Nano TiO2 was characterized by Powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) and Photoluminescence (PL) studies and the results were discussed.
Photoelectrochemical characterization of titania photoanodes fabricated using...Arkansas State University
Design and fabrication of new electrodes for photo-electrolysis using a material that is photo-active, stable, corrosion resistant, and cost effective.
Corrosion Behaviour of Titanium Anodized Film in Different Corrosive Environm...IJERA Editor
Anodizing is an electrochemical process in which thickness of the natural oxide layer is increased and converted it into a decorative, durable, corrosion-resistant film. Titanium is used as a biocompatible material in human implants due to its excellent corrosion and wears resistance. Stable, continuous, highly adherent, and protective oxide films can be developed on titanium using various acid or alkaline baths. Anodizing of titanium generates a spectrum of different color without use of dyes. This spectrum of color dependent on the thickness of the oxide, voltage ranges, interference of light reflecting off the oxide surface and reflecting off the underlying metal surface. The anodized film of Titanium is mainly consists of TiO2 or mixtures of TiO2 & Ti2O3 etc. In the present work, Pure Titanium plate has been anodized using bath of Chromic Acid at different voltage range. The anodized film is characterized by visual observation, SEM & EDAX analysis & A.C Impedance Spectroscopy, while the corrosion studies were performed using Potentiodynamic studies were performed in 3.5% NaCl & 0.1N H2SO4. The Results show that the anodized film of Titanium show different spectrum of colors from Brown-Violet-Tea or Peacock. SEM & EDAX analyses show that the anodized film of Titanium is mainly made up of TiO2 and Ti2O3. Potentiodynamic study implies that the film developed on Titanium using the bath of Chromic Acid exhibits good corrosion resistance. The A.C. Impedance study shows that the film is more compact, adherent and more uniform in chromic acid bath.
Mechanical behaviour of cement mortar & concrete for application of nano ...Mainak Ghosal
Presented in the 14th NCB INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON CEMENT AND BUILDING MATERIALS organised by National Council for Cement and Building Materials
(Under the Administrative Control of Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Govt. of India)held during 1-4 December 2015 at Manekshaw Centre, New Delhi, received overwhelming participation of more than 1050 delegates including 100 overseas delegates from various countries – Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Oman, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, USA etc.
Optimizing the performance of nano additions for cement concrete in the long runMainak Ghosal
Keynote Address for Indian Concrete Institute(New Delhi Centre) Conference on Repair, Rehabilitation & Retrofitting Of Concrete Structures, 9th – 10th September, 2016 held at Jacaranda Hall,India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India.
This conference welcomed the concrete technologists, academicians, suppliers and construction industries to the ICI-NDC forum which is promoting future technologies and solution for concrete industry which will increase construction challenges in combination with new innovations in material and production techniques in order to constantly provide a new basis for producing high performance concrete structures and concrete products.
1. Health & Safety
Issues of
Nanotechnology
Frank E. Ehrenfeld III
Laboratory Director, International Asbestos Testing Laboratories
Vice-President, nanoTEM
Vice-Chair ASTM D22.07
Committee ASTM E56.03
Technical Advisory Panel – American Industrial Hygiene Association
2. Health & Safety
Issues of
Nanotechnology
Frank E. Ehrenfeld III
Laboratory Director, International Asbestos Testing Laboratories
Vice-President, nanoTEM
Vice-Chair ASTM D22.07
Committee ASTM E56.03
Technical Advisory Panel – American Industrial Hygiene Association
3. Health & Safety
Issues of
Nanotechnology
Frank E. Ehrenfeld III
Laboratory Director, International Asbestos Testing Laboratories
Vice-President, nanoTEM
Vice-Chair ASTM D22.07
Committee ASTM E56.03
Technical Advisory Panel – American Industrial Hygiene Association
4. Health & Safety
Issues of
Nanotechnology
Frank E. Ehrenfeld III
Laboratory Director, International Asbestos Testing Laboratories
Vice-President, nanoTEM
Vice-Chair ASTM D22.07
Committee ASTM E56.03
Technical Advisory Panel – American Industrial Hygiene Association
5. Health & Safety
Issues of
Nanotechnology
Frank E. Ehrenfeld III
Laboratory Director, International Asbestos Testing Laboratories
Vice-President, nanoTEM
Vice-Chair ASTM D22.07
Committee ASTM E56.03
Technical Advisory Panel – American Industrial Hygiene Association
6. Outline: EH S Nanotechnology
&
Definitions
What
Why
How
Proposed Research
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Definitions
– Size matters
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Scale Name Symbol
1024 yota Y
1021 zetta Z
1018 exa E
1015 peta P
1012 tera T
109 giga G
106 mega M
103 kilo k
102 hecto h
101 deka da
10-1 deci d
10-2 centi c
10-3 milli m
10-6 micro μ
10-9 nano n
10-12 pico p
10-15 femto f
10-18 atto a
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Scale Name Symbol
1024 yota Y
1021 zetta Z
1018 exa E
1015 peta P
1012 tera T
109 giga G
106 mega M
103 kilo k
102 hecto h
101 deka da
10-1 deci d
10-2 centi c
10-3 milli m
10-6 micro μ
10-9 nano n
10-12 pico p
10-15 femto f
10-18 atto a
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10. EH&S Nanotechnology
Scale Name Symbol
1024 yota Y
1021 zetta Z
1018 exa E
1015 peta P
1012 tera T
109 giga G
106 mega M
103 kilo k
102 hecto h
101 deka da
10-1 deci d
10-2 centi c
10-3 milli m
10-6 micro μ
10-9 nano n
10-12 pico p
10-15 femto f
10-18 atto a
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11. EH&S Nanotechnology
Scale Name Symbol
1024 yota Y
1021 zetta Z
1018 exa E
1015 peta P
1012 tera T
109 giga G
106 mega M
103 kilo k
102 hecto h
101 deka da
10-1 deci d
10-2 centi c
10-3 milli m
10-6 micro μ
10-9 nano n
10-12 pico p
10-15 femto f
10-18 atto a
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10-24 yocto y
12. EH&S Nanotechnology
Scale Name Symbol
1024 yota Y
1021 zetta Z
1018 exa E
1015 peta P
1012 tera T
109 giga G
106 mega M
103 kilo k
102 hecto h
101 deka da
10-1 deci d
10-2 centi c
10-3 milli m
10-6 micro μ
10-9 nano n
10-12 pico p
10-15 femto f
10-18 atto a
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10-24 yocto y
13. EH&S Nanotechnology
Scale Name Symbol
1024 yota Y
1021 zetta Z
1018 exa E
1015 peta P
1012 tera T
109 giga G
106 mega M
103 kilo k
102 hecto h
101 deka da
10-1 deci d
10-2 centi c
10-3 milli m
10-6 micro μ
10-9 nano n
10-12 pico p
10-15 femto f
10-18 atto a
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10-24 yocto y
14. EH&S Nanotechnology
Scale Name Symbol
1024 yota Y
1021 zetta Z
1018 exa E
1015 peta P
1012 tera T
109 giga G
106 mega M
103 kilo k
102 hecto h
101 deka da
10-1 deci d
10-2 centi c
10-3 milli m
10-6 micro μ
10-9 nano n
10-12 pico p
10-15 femto f
10-18 atto a
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20. EH&S Nanotechnology
Definitions
• Chemical Properties
• Elemental
• Phase or compound
• Purity, variation
• Chemical species distribution
• Bonding and electronic structure
• Crystallographic structure
• Surface structure
• Molecular
• Biocompatibility/activity …
• Physical Properties
• Morphology
• Magnetic
• Dielectric Constant
• Hardness
• Biocompatibility …
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21. EH&S Nanotechnology
Definitions
• Chemical Properties
• Elemental
• Phase or compound
• Purity, variation
• Chemical species distribution
• Bonding and electronic structure
• Crystallographic structure
• Surface structure
• Molecular
• Biocompatibility/activity …
• Physical Properties
• Morphology
• Magnetic
• Dielectric Constant
• Hardness
• Biocompatibility …
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Definitions
Intrinsically nanoscale powders
• Specialty powders
• Al2O3, Fe2O3, ZnO, Tb-Y2O3, TiO2
• pigments
• catalysts
• carbon black
• Micropowders with nanoscale coatings
• Hard coating materials (WC-TiN, WC-TiC, Cr2C2-TiN, Ni/Fe-TiC,
diamond/WC/Co, Nb-TiN)
• Specialty materials: Ag-ZnO, Cu-ZnO, SiO2-TiO2, CuCrOx
• Pharmaceuticals
• Coating tuned to custom needs
• Hard Coatings, Thermal Barrier Films, Corrosion Resistance, Stealth,
Drug Delivery, Explosives, Implants
• Nanoparticle Dispersion and Containment
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23. EH&S Nanotechnology
Definitions
Tuning Nanoparticles
• Engineering surfaces, compositions and
other properties to develop desired
product
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24. EH&S Nanotechnology
Definitions
Tuning Nanoparticles
• Engineering surfaces, compositions and
other properties to develop desired
product
• What other effects do these properties
have on people, the environment,
plants, and animals?
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25. EH&S Nanotechnology
Definitions
Tuning Nanoparticles
• Engineering surfaces, compositions and
other properties to develop desired
product
• What other effects do these properties
have on people, the environment,
plants, and animals?
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26. EH&S Nanotechnology
Definitions
Tuning Nanoparticles
• Engineering surfaces, compositions and
other properties to develop desired
product
• What other effects do these properties
have on people, the environment,
plants, and animals?
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31. EH&S Nanotechnology
Definitions
– other…
Mass
Surface Area
Morphology (see also size, shape)
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Definitions
Mass / Surface Area
10 nm
10 nm
Like any catalyst – increased surface area
increases reaction sites, nanoparticles are an
extreme example of this, sometimes with
unintended consequences!
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Definitions
Morphology… Oops
• Quartz
• Size
• Crystal-Chemical form
• Surface area
• Surface composition
• Exposure measurement
• Asbestos
• Morphology
• Composition
• Exposure measurement
• Cocarcinogens
• Smoking
• Surface composition
• Latency or time delay of
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42. EH&S Nanotechnology
Definitions
Morphology… Oops
• Quartz
• Asbestos
• Size
• Natural nanofibers
• Crystal-Chemical form
• 50 years of health
• Surface area
effect research
• Surface composition
• Shape, size, composition
• Exposure measurement
• Interactions with human body
• Asbestos
• Longevity in body
• Morphology
• 20+ year latency for cancer
• Composition
• Liability is still killing
• Exposure measurement
companies
• Cocarcinogens
• Smoking
• Surface composition
• Latency or time delay of
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44. EH&S Nanotechnology
Health
– Epidemiology
Animal Studies
– Where do nanoparticles go?
– How do they interact?
– How are they changed in the living system?
Exposure Characterization
– What concentration is important?
– What should be measured?
Particle Characterization
– How do we measure the critical parameters?
Standards
– Materials
– Methods ASTM E56.03, Health & Safety
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49. EH&S Nanotechnology
METRICS • What do we measure?
• What is tested in animal studies?
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50. EH&S Nanotechnology
METRICS • What do we measure?
• What is tested in animal studies?
• What are people exposed to?
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51. EH&S Nanotechnology
METRICS • What do we measure?
• What is tested in animal studies?
• What are people exposed to?
• Are they the same?
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52. EH&S Nanotechnology
METRICS • What do we measure?
• What is tested in animal studies?
• What are people exposed to?
• Are they the same?
• What concentration matters?
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53. EH&S Nanotechnology
METRICS • What do we measure?
• What is tested in animal studies?
• What are people exposed to?
• Are they the same?
• What concentration matters?
• Measured in what units?
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54. EH&S Nanotechnology
METRICS • What do we measure?
• What is tested in animal studies?
• What are people exposed to?
• Are they the same?
• What concentration matters?
• Measured in what units?
• Mass? Particle number? Composition?
Morphology?
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55. EH&S Nanotechnology
METRICS • What do we measure?
• What is tested in animal studies?
• What are people exposed to?
• Are they the same?
• What concentration matters?
• Measured in what units?
• Mass? Particle number? Composition?
Morphology?
• WE DO NOT KNOW
UNTIL WE MEASURE
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56. EH&S Nanotechnology
METRICS • What do we measure?
• What is tested in animal studies?
• What are people exposed to?
• Are they the same?
• What concentration matters?
• Measured in what units?
• Mass? Particle number? Composition?
Morphology?
• WE DO NOT KNOW
UNTIL WE MEASURE
• But how many and which
measurements are correct?
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METRICS
Currently we have insufficient knowledge to:
Predict health effect
Measure health effect
Predict which properties to measure
Develop exposure measurement methods and relationships to
health effect
Incomplete data will be misleading
It’s a good time to start measuring
Cross-disciplinary experimental design will help reduce
misleading results
•NCI, NIST, FDA Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer and
Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory
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METRICS
Multi-walled carbon nanotubes in conducting
airways of the mouse lung after inhalation exposure.
CDC/NIOSH
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Stakeholders
Consumer Safety:
–CPSC: August 2008 “Given the variety of
nanoprodutcs and the wide range of
nanomaterials used to make them, it is
likely that many nanoproducts will be on
the market for years before industry even
begins to develop safety standards that
will address safety.”
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Stakeholders
Consumer Safety
CPSC: August 2008 “Given the variety of
nanoprodutcs and the wide range of
nanomaterials used to make them, it is
likely that many nanoproducts will be on the
market for years before industry even
begins to develop safety standards that will
address safety.”
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Stakeholders
Consumer Safety
CPSC: August 2008 “Given the variety of
nanoprodutcs and the wide range of
nanomaterials used to make them, it is
likely that many nanoproducts will be on the
market for years before industry even
begins to develop safety standards that will
address safety.”
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Stakeholders
Trial Lawyers Association
Insurance Companies
etc……
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Coordinate efforts and learn from the past?
Industry, Academia, Government, Medical, Industrial
Hygiene, Metrology, Environmental coordination
Shift materials and application development to include
health effects research
Start standards efforts for consensus
Methods, materials, health and environmental
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Proactive in stopping health effects before
they happen?
Err on the conservative side?
Over protect
Over characterize
Until we understand the effects
Be flexible and responsive … many unknowns and latency
problem
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Work with potential anti-nano stakeholders?
Understand fear and skepticism and use it to help design
better nanomanufacturing and nanotechnology as well as
health and environmental studies
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Contact:
Frank E. Ehrenfeld III
Laboratory Director – IATL
Vice-President – nanoTEM
frankehrenfeld@iatl.com
(609) 929-4211
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