The HEHS Center offers technological and expert support to industries to ensure that their nanotechnology based-products and processes are safe for human health and the environment. It offers its capacities and experience to a wide range of sectors.
Chemicals
Materials
Textile
Detergents
Cosmetics
Construction
Medicine
Food
Transport
Packaging
The HEHS Center assesses workers exposure to aerosols and engineered nanomaterials.
On-Site Characterization
In-Lab Characterization
Mitigation Strategies
Safe-by-Design
Potentially hazardous particles are present during the following manufacturing processes:
Heating processes
Characterization of (nano)materials following standard protocols including identification and quantification in complex matrices
The HEHS Center participates in the most important research projects on nanomaterial safety at European level developing future regulations, frameworks, standards and classifications. It is also highly involved in the EU Nanosafety Cluster to maximise the synergies between European-level projects, and to address the safety of materials and technologies enabled by the use of nanoparticles.
Open Projects
The European Nanotechnology Community Informatics Platform: Bridging data and disciplinary gaps for industry and regulators
Performance testing, calibration and implementation of a next generation system-of-systems Risk Governance Framework for nanomaterials
Grouping, Read-Across, Characterisation and Classification Framework for Regulatory Risk Assessment of Manufactured Nanomaterials and Safer Design of nano-enabled Products
Nanomaterial Fate and Speciation in the Environment
Implementation of Risk Governance: meeting the needs of nanotechnology