Advanced materials are key to the creation of innovative products and technologies ranging from catalysis, green hydrogen generation, energy storage to biomedical applications. Advanced materials combine nanoscopic and/or microscopic building blocks, e.g. doped and core-shell nanoparticles and high-performance fibres, into hierarchical hybrid materials. This combination of micro- and nanosized building blocks as well as the compositional material heterogeneity can impose new risks during their life cycle, e.g., by decomposition into different nanoparticles, microplastic or hybrid components and subsequent release of harmful constituents. To ensure safe and sustainable innovations, the potential risks imposed by such complex materials need to be identified and understood timely and over their entire life cycle.
The conference Advanced Materials Safety 2023 provides a highly interdisciplinary forum for sharing recent advances and discussing current and future challenges in the field of advanced materials safety among experts and newcomers in the field. It will bring together leading scientists to discuss scientific, regulatory, and application-oriented aspects of advanced materials safety in depth and from different viewpoints, with the aim to design safe and sustainable, functional, and accepted advanced materials. The conference is organized by the Leibniz Research Alliance Advanced Materials Safety.
Confirmed Speakers
Prof. Dr. Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser
Group leader at the Respiratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Research and Bern University Hospital and chair of BioNanomaterials, Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg (Switzerland)
Session: Impact of advanced materials on human health
Prof. Dr. Andrea Hartwig
Professor at the Institute of Applied Biosciences, Department of Food Chemistry and Toxicology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)
Session: Session: Impact of advanced materials on human health
Apl. Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Dr. biol. hom. Dirk Walter
Group leader at Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemisty at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (Germany)
Session: Impact of advanced materials on human health
Prof. Dr. Chris Eberl
Deputy institute director at the Fraunhofer IWM, Chair of Micromechanics and Mechanics of Materials at the University of Freiburg (Germany)
Session: Predicting effects of advanced materials by computational modeling
Dr. Hubert Rauscher
Scientific officer, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra (Italy)
“Safe and Sustainable-by-Design and challenges for Advanced Materials”
Session: Sustainable Approaches to advanced materials
Prof. Dr. Agnieszka Jastrzębska
Professor at the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)
Session: Advanced Materials for safe therapeutic applications
Topics
- Assembly and disassembly of safe advanced materials
- Sustainable Approaches to advanced materials
- Impact of advanced materials on human health
- Advanced materials for safe therapeutic applications
- Advanced materials in the environment
- Predicting effects of advanced materials by computational modeling
Workshops
- Moderator: Dr. Lorenz Kampschulte
- Contributors: to be confirmed
Communicating materials safety
- Moderator: Dr. Felix Bach
- Contributors: Nicole Jung (KIT), John Jolliffe (NFDI4Chem)
Digital Infrastructure – documenting and publishing materials safety data
Preliminary program at a glance
7/11/23
8/11/23
9/11/23
10/11/23
Scientific Committee
INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials
Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research, Dresden (IPD)
Leibniz-Institut für Werkstofforientierte Technologien – IWT
Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)
IUF – Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine
Leibniz Research Centre for the Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo)
FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure
Deutsches Museum