From Safe Nanomanufacturing to Nanosafe-by-Design processes

Safe-by-Design: from Safety to Responsibility

Safe-by-design (SbD) aims at addressing safety issues already during the R&D and design phases of new technologies. SbD has increasingly become popular in the last few years for addressing the risks of emerging technologies like nanotechnology and synthetic biology. We ask to what extent SbD approaches can deal with uncertainty, in particular with indeterminacy, i.e., the fact that the actual s...

Nanotechnology to Nanomanufacturing : Emerging Models

Science and technology are seen as important determinants for survival and growth of companies, regions and nations (Schumpter,1934) and are related to new theories of economic development, technological change and industrial innovation.(Dosi et al 1990;Romer 1990). In order to reach technology based economic growth, it is not only necessary to invest capital, intellect and time in science and ...

NANoREG Safe-by-Design Concept

Electroplating-based Approaches to Volumetric Nanomanufacturing

This paper focuses on electroplating-based volumetric nanomanufacturing to create highly-structured multilayer metallic materials, with precisely designed characteristic lengths in the hundreds of nanometers but volumes of manufactured material in the macro range. This electroplating-based approach also enables batch fabrication of nanostructures. The fabrication relies on automated and repeate...

Prevention through Design (PtD) safe design from an Australian perspective.

This paper aims to place current safe design activity in Australia into context by providing an overview of the regulatory environment, the history of safe design initiatives in Australia, and the influence of the National Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) strategy. The paper summarizes recent work in safe design policy undertaken at the national level in Australia. The paper sets out the Au...