Objective
An increasing number of nanomaterials (NMs) are entering the market in every day products spanning from health care and leisure to electronics, cosmetics and foodstuff. Nanotechnology is a truly enabling technology, with unlimited potential for innovation. However, the novelty in properties and forms of NMs makes the development of a well-founded and robust legislative framework to ensure safe development of nano-enabled products particularly challenging. At the heart of the challenge lies the difficulty in the reliable and reproducible characterisation of NMs given their extreme diversity and dynamic nature, particularly in complex environments, such as within different biological, environmental and technological compartments. Two key steps can resolve this: 1) the development of a holistic framework for reproducible NM characterisation, spanning from initial needs assessment through method selection to data interpretation and storage; and 2) the embedding of this framework in an operational, linked-up ontological regime to allow identification of causal relationships between NMs properties, be they intrinsic, extrinsic or calculated, and biological, (eco)toxicological and health impacts fully embedded in a mechanistic risk assessment framework. ACEnano was conceived in response to the NMBP 26 call with the aim to comprehensively address these two steps. More specifically ACEnano will introduce confidence, adaptability and clarity into NM risk assessment by developing a widely implementable and robust tiered approach to NM physico-chemical characterisation that will simplify and facilitate contextual (hazard or exposure) description and its transcription into a reliable NMs grouping framework. This will be achieved by the creation of a conceptual “toolbox” that will facilitate decision-making in choice of techniques and SOPs, linked to a characterisation ontology framework for grouping and risk assessment and a supporting data management system.
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- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesknowledge engineeringontology
- engineering and technologyother engineering and technologiesfood technology
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsoptical sensors
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcoating and films
- engineering and technologynanotechnologynano-materials
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(opens in new window) H2020-NMBP-2016-2017
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H2020-NMBP-2016-two-stage
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
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1010 Wien
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SN2 1FL Swindon
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4057 Basel
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86899 Landsberg Am Lech
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2000 Neuchatel
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6708 PB Wageningen
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8092 Zuerich
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HP9 2FX BEACONSFIELD
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750 07 Uppsala
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3645 THUN
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04318 Leipzig
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79183 WALDKIRCH
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WR14 1XZ Malvern
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NN3 6FL NORTHAMPTON
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426 77 VASTRA FROLUNDA
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12205 Berlin
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WA1 1RX WARRINGTON
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OX1 2JD Oxford
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1000 Brussels
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33203 Gijon
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8010 Graz
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133-791 SEOUL
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100190 BEIJING
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10589 Berlin
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06611 SOEUL
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1049 Bruxelles / Brussel
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OX10 8BB Oxford
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33203 Gijon
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8010 Graz
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