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12/07/11 Environmental fate of nano silver
Cherrie Whiteley has recently contributed a paper titled 'Challenges in assessing the environmental fate and exposure of nano silver', to the proceedings of Nanosafe2010: International Conference on Safe Production and Use of Nanomaterials (16-18 November 2010, Grenoble - France) . This has just been published on the Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Cherrie M Whiteley et al 2011 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 304 012070 doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/304/1/012070).

Owing to the lack of information on their use and potential pathways and sinks in the environment, there are significant challenges in assessing the fate and exposure of nano particles (NPs). The paper provides a case study of nanosilver used in products within the UK and estimated environmental release. For more information, the URL of this paper is:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/304/1/012070

18/03/10 UK Nano Strategy launched
The UK Government Nanotechnologies Strategy has now been published setting out how the governements plans to ensure that everyone safely benefit from the societal and economic opportunities that these technologies offer.

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Nano Events

10-12/03/10 NanoImpactNet conference to be held in Lausanne, Switzerland. Conference theme is "For a healthy environment in a future with Nanotechnology".

06/11/09 European Commision latest communication on Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies: An action plan for Europe 2005-2009. Second Implementation Report 2007-2009 and further findings.

30/10/05 UK Government advised on a Nano Silver review. The Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances, a scientific advisory body to the UK Environment Ministry, has published a report on nanosilver. The report calls for the development of a longer term research strategy for nanosilver.

28/09/09 Nanotech Europe 2009: 28th - 30th September 2009 in Berlin. Event was attended by The REACH Centre and Lancaster University. Click here to launch poster presented.

03-04/11/09 Third Nano Safety for Success Dialogue, European Commission, Brussels.

Nano KTN events:

UK NanoForum & Emerging Technologies 2009 - in collaboration with UK Trade & Investment 3-4 November 2009, London
UK Chemistry & Nano-technological Modelling Forum - in partnership with Chemistry Innovation KTN 17 November 2009, Runcorn
NanoMiTE Focus Group Workshop - in partnership with Materials KTN and Chemistry Innovation KTN 19 November 2009, London
Online Seminar: Nano-enabled Packaging for Food Applications 26 November 2009, 2pm, Online speaker: Graham Moore, Pira Further information will be available shortly. To pre-register your interest, email natasha.taylor@nanoktn.com

For full details visit Nano KTN website.

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