environmental health and safety for carbon-based nanomaterials including cellulose nanomaterials, graphene, and carbon-based nanotubes
Carbon-Based Nanomaterials: Health and Environmental Safety
For more than a decade Vireo Advisors has provided leadership in the assessment and validation of environmental health and safety for carbon-based nanomaterials including cellulose nanomaterials, graphene, and carbon-based nanotubes. We partner with commercial organizations who bringing remarkable new materials and products to the marketplace. We collaborate with professional societies such as the Tappi Nanotechnology Division and the Society for Risk Analysis and the ACS Division Cellulose and Renewable Materials to disseminate environmental health and safety information. We participate in international collaborative projects including P3Nano and the Diagonal Project.
P3Nano
P3Nano is a public-private partnership funding by the US Endowment for Forestry and Communities aimed at rapidly commercializing cellulosic nanomaterials. The Endowment invests in non-competitive research to take full advantage of the unique properties of cellulose at the nanoscale. In 2014, as the first grantee of P3Nano, Jo Anne Shatkin identified 8 organizations willing to cost-share and contribute materials to a food safety demonstration project that would seek FDA GRAS status for cellulose nanomaterials, the first nanomaterial to seek GRAS acceptance for use in food. Vireo formed the Alliance for Food Safety Demonstration of Fibrillated and Crystalline Celluloses. The members of the project alliance include industrial producers from the US, Canada and Europe, research organizations, governmental and private organizations.
Publicly available resources from Vireo’s work with the P3Nano project include:
17 peer-reviewed publications describing and validating methods to detect and analyze cellulose nanomaterials in air, water, and living systems
DIAGONAL Project
DIAGONAL Project is focused on development and scaled Implementation of safe by design tools and guidelines for multicomponent nanomaterials and high aspect ratio nanoparticles. Working with 21 industrial and academic partners, Vireo aims to bring new methodologies to guarantee long-term nanosafety with a specific focus on graphene-enabled new materials.
Publicly available resources from Vireo’s work with the DIAGONAL project include: