The rapidly developing field of nanotechnologies presents many opportunities and benefits for new materials with significantly improved properties as well as revolutionary applications in the fields of energy, environment, medicine, etc... The industrial production and use of nanoparticles will be the driving force for the emerging new materials industry of the 21st century. In terms of economics, analysts have estimated that the worldwide market for nanomaterials will be 2,600 billion Euros in 2014. However, the potential impact of these new materials on human health and the environment is viewed with apprehension. This new industry can only develop dynamically if these preoccupations are satisfactorily allayed.
Following the successful outcome of the past International Conference on Safe production and use of nanomaterials Nanosafe 2008 that took place in Grenoble (France), the Organizing Committee has decided that the next edition will take place in MINATEC again in November 2010.
The objectives of the conference will be to make available the major progresses and future trends in the domain of the safe production and use of nanomaterials.
Programme
The three-day programme for this conference will comprise:
- Invited plenary lectures
- Confirmed lecturers include:
Günter Oberdörster
University of Rochester
(USA) |
David Y.H. Pui University of Minnesota
(USA) |
Michael Riediker Institute for Work and Health
(Switzerland) |
Jurron Bradley Lux Research
(USA) | Yuguo Song
University of Beijing
(China) |
Michael Ellenbecker
University of Massachusetts
Lowell (USA) |
Tinh Nguyen
NIST (USA)
|
Bernd Nowack
Empa (Switzerland)
|
Jean-Yves Bottero
Cerege (France) |
Eric Gaffet
CNRS (France) |
François Tardif
CEA (France) |
Paul Amyotte Dalhousie Univ.
(Canada) |
Rolf Eckhoff University of Bergen
(Norway) |
Daniel Bernard Arkema (France) | |
- Selected oral contributions
- Poster sessions
- Exhibition of equipments related to safe production and use of nanomaterials