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Towards safe and sustainable innovation in nanotechnology: State-of-play for smart nanomaterials
The European Green Deal, the European Commission's new Action Plan for a Circular Economy, the new European Industrial Strategy and the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability launched in October 2020 are ambitious plans to achieve a sustainable, fair and inclusive European Union's economy....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7941606/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33738354 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.impact.2021.100297 |
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author | Gottardo, Stefania Mech, Agnieszka Drbohlavová, Jana Małyska, Aleksandra Bøwadt, Søren Riego Sintes, Juan Rauscher, Hubert |
author_facet | Gottardo, Stefania Mech, Agnieszka Drbohlavová, Jana Małyska, Aleksandra Bøwadt, Søren Riego Sintes, Juan Rauscher, Hubert |
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description | The European Green Deal, the European Commission's new Action Plan for a Circular Economy, the new European Industrial Strategy and the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability launched in October 2020 are ambitious plans to achieve a sustainable, fair and inclusive European Union's economy. In line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030, these policies require that any new material or product should be not only functional and cost-effective but also safe and sustainable to ensure compliance with regulation and acceptance by consumers. Nanotechnology is one of the technologies that could enable such a green growth. This paper focuses on advanced nanomaterials that actively respond to external stimuli, also known as ‘smart nanomaterials’, and which are already on the market or in the research and development phase for non-medical applications such as in agriculture, food, food packaging and cosmetics. A review shows that smart nanomaterials and enabled products may present new challenges for safety and sustainability assessment due to their complexity and dynamic behaviour. Moreover, existing regulatory frameworks, in particular in the European Union, are probably not fully prepared to address them. What is missing today is a systematic and comprehensive approach that allows for considering sustainability aspects hand in hand with safety considerations very early on at the material design stage. We call on innovators, scientists and authorities to further develop and promote the ‘Safe- and Sustainable-by-Design’ concept in nanotechnology and propose some initiatives to go into this direction. |
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spelling | pubmed-79416062021-03-16 Towards safe and sustainable innovation in nanotechnology: State-of-play for smart nanomaterials Gottardo, Stefania Mech, Agnieszka Drbohlavová, Jana Małyska, Aleksandra Bøwadt, Søren Riego Sintes, Juan Rauscher, Hubert NanoImpact Review Article The European Green Deal, the European Commission's new Action Plan for a Circular Economy, the new European Industrial Strategy and the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability launched in October 2020 are ambitious plans to achieve a sustainable, fair and inclusive European Union's economy. In line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030, these policies require that any new material or product should be not only functional and cost-effective but also safe and sustainable to ensure compliance with regulation and acceptance by consumers. Nanotechnology is one of the technologies that could enable such a green growth. This paper focuses on advanced nanomaterials that actively respond to external stimuli, also known as ‘smart nanomaterials’, and which are already on the market or in the research and development phase for non-medical applications such as in agriculture, food, food packaging and cosmetics. A review shows that smart nanomaterials and enabled products may present new challenges for safety and sustainability assessment due to their complexity and dynamic behaviour. Moreover, existing regulatory frameworks, in particular in the European Union, are probably not fully prepared to address them. What is missing today is a systematic and comprehensive approach that allows for considering sustainability aspects hand in hand with safety considerations very early on at the material design stage. We call on innovators, scientists and authorities to further develop and promote the ‘Safe- and Sustainable-by-Design’ concept in nanotechnology and propose some initiatives to go into this direction. Elsevier B.V 2021-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7941606/ /pubmed/33738354 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.impact.2021.100297 Text en © 2021 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Article Gottardo, Stefania Mech, Agnieszka Drbohlavová, Jana Małyska, Aleksandra Bøwadt, Søren Riego Sintes, Juan Rauscher, Hubert Towards safe and sustainable innovation in nanotechnology: State-of-play for smart nanomaterials |
title | Towards safe and sustainable innovation in nanotechnology: State-of-play for smart nanomaterials |
title_full | Towards safe and sustainable innovation in nanotechnology: State-of-play for smart nanomaterials |
title_fullStr | Towards safe and sustainable innovation in nanotechnology: State-of-play for smart nanomaterials |
title_full_unstemmed | Towards safe and sustainable innovation in nanotechnology: State-of-play for smart nanomaterials |
title_short | Towards safe and sustainable innovation in nanotechnology: State-of-play for smart nanomaterials |
title_sort | towards safe and sustainable innovation in nanotechnology: state-of-play for smart nanomaterials |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7941606/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33738354 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.impact.2021.100297 |
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