Programme and abstracts
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Day 1
| 8.30 | Registration and Refreshments |
| 9.10 | Welcome and Introduction - Ottilia Saxl / Mark Morrison |
| Session 1: Manufacturing Scale-up and Processing | |
| (Chair- Dr. Mark Morrison, Institute of Nanotechnology; Peter Hatto, Ionbond/ISO TC 229) | |
| 9.20 | Keynote: Dr Michael Butler, Unilever - ‘Nanoparticle Applications in Food, Personal Care and Packaging’ |
| 9.50 | Dr Derek Graham, ICI - ‘Manufacturing Routes for Nanoparticle Synthesis’ |
| 10.15 | Dr Stephan Barcikowski, Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. - ‘Rapid Nanocomposite Prototyping’ |
| 10.40 | Refreshments |
| 11.10 | Dr Milo Shaffer, Imperial College - ‘Carbon nanotubes: Synthesis, Processing and composites’ |
| 11.35 | Professor Jim Johnston, Victoria University of Wellington - ‘New Nanoparticle and Quantum Dot Hybrid Materials: Issues for Industry Scale Manufacturing and Applications’ |
| 12.00 | Dr Markus Klapper, Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research - ‘Synthesis of Hydrophobized Inorganic Nanoparticles for the Homogeneous Incorporation in Nanocomposites’ |
| 12.30 | Lunch |
| 13.45 | Professor Lin Li, University of Manchester - ‘Pulsed Laser Ablation in Liquid for Generation of Copper and Titanium Oxide Nanoparticles’ |
| 14.10 | Dr Nicos Angastiniotis, Higher Technical Institute, Cyprus - ‘Bottom Up Synthesis of Nanomaterial Building Blocks through the use of Metastabilization’ |
| 14.35 | Dr Ed Lester, University of Nottingham - ‘Scaling up of formulated nanomaterials using hydrothermal synthesis’ |
| 15.00 | Refreshments |
| Session 2: Measurement, Characterisation and Standardisation | |
| (Chair- James Johnstone, NPL) | |
| 15.30 | Keynote: Dr Peter Hatto, IonBond Ltd / ISO TC 229 |
| 16.00 | Dr Hermann Stamm, JRC ISPRA - ‘Relevance of the physico-chemical characterization of nanoparticles for toxicity testing’ |
| 16.25 | Dr Bob Carr, Nanosight - ‘Nanoparticle detection and analysis – tracking nanoparticles in a sample, directly and individually, to give high resolution particle size distributions’ |
| 16.50 | Dr Rick Trutna, Agilent Technologies - ‘A Spectroscopic Particle Sizing Instrument ’ |
| 17.15 | Dr Alexandre Cuenat, NPL - ‘Overview of UK National Measurement system activities in nanoparticle metrology’ |
| 17.40 | Drinks Reception and Poster Viewing |
Day 2
| 8.45 | Refreshments |
| 9.15 | Welcome and Introduction to Day 2 |
| Session 3: Panel discussion - The Big Issue(s) | |
| (Chair- IoN) | |
| 9.20 | Introduction from chair, summary of conference so far |
| 9.35 | General discussion, with questions from audience. Panel members: |
| 11.15 | Refreshments |
| Session 4: Regulations, Risks and Toxicology | |
| (Chair- Trudy Phelps, CEN TC 352) | |
| 11.45 | Keynote: Dr John Garrod, Defra - ‘An update on the Government's EHS Research Programme on Nanomaterials’ |
| 12.15 | Mr Niall O’Brien, UCD - ‘A qualitative risk assessment framework model for nanomaterials resulting from environmental applications’ |
| 12.40 | Dr Frederic Schuster, CEA (France) and Nanosafe2 |
| 13.05 | Lunch |
| 14.10 | Professor Robert Lee, Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS) , Cardiff University - ‘Regulating Nanomaterials: 'Mind the Gap'’ |
| 14.35 | Ms Lynn Bergeson, Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. - ‘Emerging Global Governance Strategies: A Summary Overview’ |
| 15.00 | Dr Richard Handy, University of Plymouth - ‘Toxic Effects of Nanomaterials to Trout: Implications for Fish Toxicity Testing & Regulation’ |
| 15.25 | Closing Remarks |
For further information contact Gemma McCulloch, gemma.mcculloch@nano.org.uk