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Advanced Characterisation Methodologies to assess and predict the Health and Environmental Risks of Advanced Materials

Descrizione del progetto

Valutazione e previsione dei rischi ambientali dei materiali avanzati

I materiali avanzati comprendono biomateriali, semiconduttori, materiali intelligenti e materiali nano-ingegnerizzati. Alcuni hanno proprietà pericolose, ma misurarne i rischi non è facile. L’UE ha messo in atto strategie per garantire la sicurezza e la sostenibilità delle tecnologie abilitanti ed emergenti (comprese quelle basate su sostanze chimiche e materiali). Il progetto MACRAME, finanziato dall’UE, svilupperà metodologie applicabili ai materiali avanzati. Rileverà, caratterizzerà e quantificherà questi materiali durante la loro lavorazione e il ciclo di vita del prodotto, compreso il riciclo/fine vita, per valutare (mediante test sulla tossicità e l’ecotossicità) l’impatto risultante sulla salute e sull’ambiente. MACRAME predisporrà la standardizzazione e l’armonizzazione, nonché la convalida normativa, l’ampia applicabilità e l’applicazione dei metodi di prova e caratterizzazione sviluppati. MACRAME dimostrerà la propria efficacia ed efficienza in relazione a materiali, processi e prodotti industriali esistenti e rilevanti per il mercato.

Obiettivo

MACRAMÉ’s 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 EU’s Chemical Strategy for Sustainability (2020), and in the European Green Deal (2021)), the MACRAMÉ 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.

Coordinatore

ACUMENIST
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 535 656,25
Indirizzo
RUE FETIS 19
1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
Belgio

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Regione
Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/ Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Arr. de Bruxelles-Capitale/Arr. Brussel-Hoofdstad
Tipo di attività
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 535 656,25

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