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NanoFATE
Nanoparticle Fate Assessment and
Toxicity in the Environment
NanoSafetyCluster - Compendium 2012
Contract Agreement: NMP4-SL-2010-247739 Website: http:// www.nanofate.eu
Coordinator: Dr Claus Svendsen (csv@ceh.ac.uk), NERC - Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK
No. Beneficiary name Short name Country
1 Natural Environment Research Council NERC United Kingdom
2 VU University, Amsterdam VUA Netherlands
3 Oxford University UOXF.DJ United Kingdom
4 University of Aveiro UAVR Portugal
5 Faust & Backhaus F+B Germany
6 NanoTrade NT Czech Republic
7 Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro UNIPMN Italy
8 Institute of High Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences IHPP Poland
9 Cardiff University CU United Kingdom
10 Amepox AXME Poland
11 Gothenburg University UGOT Sweden
12 SYMLOG France SYMLOG France
Contents
1 Summary ..................................................................................... 93
2 The NanoFATE aim and focus .................................................... 94
3 How NanoFATE will improve the State-of-the-art for
environmental fate and effects of ENPs ................................... 94
3.1 Background ............................................................................. 94
3.2 Current baseline of knowledge and points where
NanoFATE will progress beyond the state-of-the-art in
meeting project objectives. .................................................... 95
1 Summary
Concept: NanoFATE has been conceived to fill knowledge and
methodological gaps currently impeding sound assessment of
environmental risks posed by engineered nanoparticles (ENPs).
Our vision is to assess environmental ENP fate and risk in for
example high-volume products for which recycling is not an
option, namely; fuel additives, polishing agents, personal care
products and antibacterial products. To represent these
products two commercial ENPs of CeO 2, ZnO and Ag (of varying
size, surface and core chemistries) will be followed through
their post-production life cycles, i.e. from environmental entry
as “spent product”, through waste treatment to their final fates
and potential toxic effects. This will test the applicability of
current fate and risk assessment methods and identify
3.3 Overall project structure ....................................................... 102
4 Description of the work performed since the beginning of
the project and the main results achieved .............................. 103
5 Citations .................................................................................... 104
6 Directory.................................................................................... 106
7 Copyright ................................................................................... 109
improvements required for assessment of ENPs at an early
stage.
Objectives: Delivery of a systematic study of the environmental
fate and toxicity of selected ENPs will entail addressing nine S&T
objectives:
• Design, tagging and manufacture of ENPs
• Analysis of ENP interactions with abiotic and biotic entities
• Generating predictive models for ENP exposure in waters
and sludge-amended soils
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