Project description
Assessment and prediction of advanced materials’ environmental risks
Advanced materials (AdMas) include biomaterials, semiconductors, smart materials and nano-engineered materials. Some have hazardous properties. Yet, measuring the risks is not easy. The EU has deployed strategies to secure the safety and sustainability of enabling and emerging technologies (including those based on chemicals and materials). The EU-funded MACRAME project will develop methodologies applicable to AdMas. It will detect, characterise and quantify AdMas during their processing and product life cycle, including recycling/end-of-life, to assess (ecotox-/tox-test) the resulting impact on health and the environment. MACRAME will prepare for standardisation and harmonisation, as well as regulatory validation, the wide-spread applicability and application of the developed test and characterisation methods. MACRAME will demonstrate their effectiveness and efficiency concerning existing, market-relevant industrial materials, processes and products.
Objective
MACRAMs Central Objective is to:
detect, characterise and quantify Advanced Materials during their processing and product-life-cycle (incl. recycling/end-of-life) to assess (e.g. ecotox-/tox-test) the resulting impact on (human) health and the environment if/when they pose (intended or unintended) exposures to humans and/or the environment and to
advance (i.e. prepare for standardisation & harmonisation/regulatory validation) the wide-spread applicability and application of the developed test- and characterisation methods, by demonstrating their effectiveness and efficiency in the context of existing, market-relevant industrial materials, processes and products.
In alignment with the EU strategies to secure the safety and sustainability of enabling and emerging technologies (incl. those based on chemicals and materials, as addressed in the EUs Chemical Strategy for Sustainability (2020), and in the European Green Deal (2021)), the MACRAM Project focusses on the development of methodologies that are applicable to Advanced Materials (AdMas) - a categories that includes, but surpasses that of nanomaterials (EU, Definition of a Nanomaterial), and that is aligned with the future-oriented innovation, safety and sustainability considerations at the OECD (OECD (2020)), the EU (EU (2022)), and several of its Member States (e.g. Germany (2021)); this will be achieved by focussing the development and demonstration of novel methods and methodologies, as well as the advancement of their harmonisation and standardisation on (planned inhalable carbon-based AdMas in a variety of morphologies and dimensions, moving beyond spherical particles: (a) graphene-related material (GRM), (b) carbon fibres (CNTs), and (c) Poly Lactic-co-Glycolic Acid (PLGA). The focus on carbon-based AdMa is due to unsolved detection and characterisation issues especially in complex media.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- engineering and technology environmental engineering waste management waste treatment processes recycling
- engineering and technology nanotechnology nano-materials
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HORIZON.2.4 - Digital, Industry and Space
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL4-2022-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01
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1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
Belgium
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