NanoSustain
Welcome to the NanoSustain website. The ultimate goal of NanoSustain is to explore, examine and develop new solutions for the sustainable design, use, re-use, recycling and final treatment and/or disposal of specific nanomaterials and associated products. This will be based on a comprehensive hazard characterization and impact assessment of selected environmentally and economically relevant materials products.
Latest Project News
17 May 2011
NanoSustain partner Veneto Nanotech is launching the 7th edition of Nanochallenge & Polymerchallenge 2011, international business plan competition for business ideas in nanotechnology and polymer-based materials.
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20 September 2011
New NanoSustain ecotoxicity studies (luminescent bacteria test according to ISO 21338) show that nanocellulose (MFC / MicroFibrillated Cellulose) is not acutely toxic but that the behaviour of these nanomaterials (e.g. agglomeration) strongly depends on the characteristics of the test suspension.
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06 September 2011
To assess the recyclability and sustainability of nanotechnology based products, NanoSustain partner VTT is currently studying, in cooperation with the University of Eastern Finland, the release of nanoparticles during melting (recycling) of nano-ZnO coated glass, and the behaviour of CNTs from epoxy-CNT composites during incineration as a final treament for safe disposal.
First results will be presented at the European Aerosol Conference in Manchester (UK), 4th-9th September 2011.
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