{"id":33144,"date":"2023-11-27T11:51:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T11:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=33144"},"modified":"2023-11-27T11:58:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T11:58:35","slug":"improving-nanomaterials-safety-with-the-sabyna-guidance-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/improving-nanomaterials-safety-with-the-sabyna-guidance-platform\/33144\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving nanomaterials safety with the SAbyNA Guidance Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Horizon 2020 SAbyNA project<\/a> is developing the integrative SAbyNA Guidance Platform to support the development of safer nanomaterials and nano-enabled products.<\/h2>\n

In recent years, the increasing use and production of nanomaterials (NMs) and nano-enabled products (NEPs) (i.e., products containing NMs) has raised concerns about the environmental and human safety of these innovative materials.<\/p>\n

In the absence of specific and integrated regulatory guidelines for the management of risks associated with the use of NMs and NEPs, the European Commission (EC) recently recommended a conceptual Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) Framework,1<\/sup> which proposes a stepwise approach for SSbD implementation, to guide innovation towards the green and digital industrial transition of chemicals and materials, as part of the European political priorities and associated strategic plans (e.g., Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability-CSS, Green Deal ambitions). However, there is a need for specific guidelines and tools for its implementation.<\/p>\n

In this context, the need to provide easy-to-use and integrative guidance to stakeholders (e.g., NEP manufacturers and consumers) is still a demanding task, not only to evaluate potential risks coming from the production or use of a NEP but also to guide through the development of safer NEP.<\/p>\n

To address this challenge, the Horizon 2020 SAbyNA project is developing an integrative user-friendly Guidance Platform<\/a> with optimal workflows to support the development of Safe-by-Design (SbD) of products (NMs and NEPs) and processes over their whole life cycle. The SAbyNA Guidance Platform will consider all the available resources (methods, models, frameworks, and tools) for evaluating safety and sustainability to reduce their complexity, costs, and delocalisation. It will help the final user select SbD process\/product-specific solutions.<\/p>\n

Because of the increasing interest in developing NMs and NEPs used in building and 3D-printing sectors, the SAbyNA Guidance Platform will be tested in paints and 3D printing applications to showcase how usability can be increased by targeting specific industrial sectors.<\/p>\n

A continuous dialogue with different stakeholders and end users will maximise the added value of the Platform, which will also be demonstrated in real-life industrial case studies.<\/p>\n

What will the SAbyNA project do?<\/h3>\n

The main objectives of the SAbyNA project<\/a> are to:<\/p>\n