15 Nov 2018
NIA kick started its new webinar series 'Nano in Action' with a focus on applications into textiles.
The 90 minute webinar featured three speakers:
13 Nov 2018
Cerion, a US Member of NIA that specialises in custom design, scale-up and manufacture of specialty inorganic advanced and nano-sized materials, has published a report into the five strongest trends in high performance optical coatings.
The report focuses on coatings including High refractive index, Anti-reflection, High reflective, Optical filter...
12 Nov 2018
NIA was pleased to spend a busy week in Grenoble with friends and family at the Nanosafe conference. Focussing on industrial approaches to safety within nanomaterials and technologies, NIA presented, co-chaired, exhibited and roud-tabled for 4 days. The following short report summarises NIA activities and highlights from the meeting.
6 Nov 2018
NIA is pleased to publish it's Open newsletter for November. CLICK HERE to catch up with latest news from the nano world, plus discover our 2 new webinar series, 'Nano in Action' and 'Nano in Business' !
6 Nov 2018
The US NIOSH held a public online webinar on 30 October on their reivised draft 'Current Intelligence Bulletin: Health Effects of Occupational Exposure to Silver Nanomaterials'. The slides from the webinar, which NIA attended, are now avaiblable at the docket at regulations.gov. The public consultation on the draft CIB will end on November 30.
5 Nov 2018
Cabot Corporation, a global specialty chemicals and performance materials company and NIA member, has been selected as technology partner by the U.S Department of Energy (DOE) to develop low-cobalt cathodes for the next generation of Li-ion batteries as part of an $80 million investment initiative for advanced vehicle research.
31 Oct 2018
The JRC report summarises the presentations and discussions at the first NanoReg2 Workshop on Regulatory Preparedness for Innovation in Nanotechnology held in Ispra, Italy 5 to 6 October 2017. Approximately 60 regulators, industry representatives and other stakeholders met through the NanoReg2 project, in which NIA is a partner. The project has...
17 Oct 2018
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work has published an infosheet on manufactured nanomaterials in the workplace.
5 Oct 2018
The US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health(NIOSH) has a public consultation out on nano silver where the deadline to comment is 30 November. NIOSH is also organising a public online meeting scheduled for 30 October.
5 Oct 2018
The NanoReg2 project, of which NIA is a partner, has published a comprehensive review of EU legislation addressing chemical substances and the potential for Grouping and Read Across in nanomaterials.
'Insights into possibilities for grouping and read-across for nanomaterials in EU chemicals legislation' is published with open access in...
26 Sep 2018
NIA Member Solvay, an advanced material manufacturing company, also has a venture capital fund, in the form of Solvay Ventures—which invests in breakthrough technologies within the areas of advanced materials and formulations. Solvay Ventures has recently announced that it has invested in the US-based company, Solid Power, which is a manufacturer...
25 Sep 2018
Advancing nanomaterials safety testing was the mission of two European Union-funded Horizon2020 projects, NanoReg2 and GRACIOUS. They brought together 120 nanotechnology specialists from Europe, North America and Asia at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris on September 12-13. Experts from research, industry...
19 Sep 2018
NIA is delighted to publish it's Open newsletter for September. CLICK HERE to catch up with latest news from the nano world, plus new NIA Members and an invitation to our Open Webinar on Regulatory
18 Sep 2018
NIA is delighted to welcome more Members to its growing family, with three new nano experts to the Association.
10 Sep 2018
The Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) Observatory is an online monitoring tool
7 Sep 2018
The European Observatory on Nanomaterials (EUON) today published the report from a commissioned work on nanomaterial pigments on the European market. The study found 81 pigments on the market, which are listed in an inventory also on the EUON website.
17 Aug 2018
Nanoscale biofilms in wound healing: NIA Member University of Leeds identifies fundamental processes
Researchers from an NIA member The University of Leeds, have identified the fundamental molecular level processes that go into one of the most common natural healing processes – the scab. It has been known that prior to the hard scab forming, that the blood clots at the site of the wound.
13 Aug 2018
EFSA published in July its assessment of four recent scientific studies on titanium dioxide.
10 Aug 2018
Researchers from The University of Cambridge have identified that niobium tungsten oxides could be used to create electrodes which charge faster than the batteries in use today. The researchers tested two different niobium tungsten dioxides – Nb16W5O55 and Nb18W16O93, which possess crystallographic shear and bronze-like structures, respectively.
