Scope of the conference
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. 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.
Abstract submission for posters is still possible until 29 September 2023:
List of invited speakers
- Dr. Ajay B. Patil
End-of-life perspective for advanced energy storage, mobility and electronics technology materials: a gateway to a sustainable circular economy - Dr. Hubert Rauscher
Safe and Sustainable-by-Design and challenges for Advanced Materials - Prof. Seema Agarwal
Degradation and disassembly concepts for tackling plastic pollution - Dr. Francesco Saliu
Microfibers in the marine environment: from analytical challenges to bio-inspired solutions - Prof. Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser
Predictive 3D lung models to assess the hazard of aerosolized (advanced) materials - Prof. Andrea Hartwig
Impact and mechanisms of action of metal-based nanomaterials on bioavailability and cell toxicity in advanced lung cell systems - Apl. Prof. Dirk Walter
Specific toxicity of CeO2-nanoparticles - Prof. Agnieszka Jastrzębska
Elucidating biological response in vitro of two-dimensional Ti3C2Tx MXene - Prof. Chris Eberl
The future of materials science and engineering: How to participate and get the most out of the digital transformation - Prof. Robert Rallo
Autonomous decision support for nanosafety
Workshops
Communicating materials safety
- Moderator: Dr. Lorenz Kampschulte (Deutsches Museum)
- Contributors: Dana Kühnel (UFZ), IWT (TBD)
Digital Infrastructure – documenting and publishing materials safety data
- Moderator: Dr. Felix Bach (FIZ Karlsruhe)
- Contributors: Christian Bonatto Minella (FIZ Karlsruhe), Nicole Jung (KIT, Karlsruhe), John Jolliffe (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz), Katja Nau (KIT, Karlsruhe)
Industry session
A moderated discussion on “sustainable approaches to advanced materials” including a keynote and short impulses and insights from company representatives (10 min). (to be confirmed)
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
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