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Instance maps as an organising concept for complex experimental workflows as demonstrated for (nano)material safety research

  • Benjamin Punz,
  • Maja Brajnik,
  • Joh Dokler,
  • Jaleesia D. Amos,
  • Litty Johnson,
  • Katie Reilly,
  • Anastasios G. Papadiamantis,
  • Amaia Green Etxabe,
  • Lee Walker,
  • Diego S. T. Martinez,
  • Steffi Friedrichs,
  • Klaus M. Weltring,
  • Nazende Günday-Türeli,
  • Claus Svendsen,
  • Christine Ogilvie Hendren,
  • Mark R. Wiesner,
  • Martin Himly,
  • Iseult Lynch and
  • Thomas E. Exner

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2025, 16, 57–77, doi:10.3762/bjnano.16.7

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  • create the materials and the life cycle samples and to execute the experiments. This ensures that all information required to perform the safety and life cycle assessment is collected, with all steps documented as part of the planning status (see Figure 9). Besides nodes representing the materials
  • partly confidential information on the production processes needed for the life cycle assessment to evaluate energy and water consumption or as a basis to discuss the amounts of material needed to be shipped to the partners and then the status of the shipment. At the same time, the instance maps are
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Published 22 Jan 2025

New trends in nanobiotechnology

  • Pau-Loke Show,
  • Kit Wayne Chew,
  • Wee-Jun Ong,
  • Sunita Varjani and
  • Joon Ching Juan

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 377–379, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.32

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  • ; nanotechnology applied in biology, medicine, food, environmental and agriculture sectors; environmental engineering and chemical engineering; nanoscale electrochemisty in biotechnology; computational nanochemistry in biotechnology; and life cycle assessment of nanobiotechnology. The works presented in this
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Published 27 Mar 2023

The cleaner, the greener? Product sustainability assessment of the biomimetic façade paint Lotusan® in comparison to the conventional façade paint Jumbosil®

  • Florian Antony,
  • Rainer Grießhammer,
  • Thomas Speck and
  • Olga Speck

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 2100–2115, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.200

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  • -cycle cost assessment, life-cycle assessment, and life-cycle scenario analysis. According to the PROSA methodology, the results of the individual analyses are finally brought together within the framework of an integrated sustainability assessment [25]. With regard to the basic meaning of assessing the
  • ecological performance as part of a product sustainability assessment, within the present study special emphasis has been put on assessing the ecological performance of the biomimetic façade paint Lotusan® within the course of a life-cycle assessment (LCA). But also economic effects regarding the life-cycle
  • -cycle assessment (LCA); Lotus-Effect® technology; Lotusan®; product sustainability assessment (PROSA); Introduction In-depth analyses of functions found in biology and the systematic transfer of the respective operating principles into technical applications is the essential aim of biomimetics [1][2
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Published 29 Dec 2016

Nanotechnology in the real world: Redeveloping the nanomaterial consumer products inventory

  • Marina E. Vance,
  • Todd Kuiken,
  • Eric P. Vejerano,
  • Sean P. McGinnis,
  • Michael F. Hochella Jr.,
  • David Rejeski and
  • Matthew S. Hull

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1769–1780, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.181

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  • that describe the products in the inventory, a summary of known toxicity of the advertised nanomaterial, supply chain information, volume produced, and life cycle assessment information. Most of these suggestions were included in the CPI 2.0 as the new categories described in this work. Others, such as
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Published 21 Aug 2015

Simulation tool for assessing the release and environmental distribution of nanomaterials

  • Haoyang Haven Liu,
  • Muhammad Bilal,
  • Anastasiya Lazareva,
  • Arturo Keller and
  • Yoram Cohen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 938–951, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.97

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  • distribution of nanomaterials (RedNano) based on a life cycle assessment approach and multimedia compartmental modeling coupled with mechanistic intermedia transport processes. The RedNano simulation tool and its web-based software implementation enables rapid “what-if?” scenario analysis, in order to assess
  • : engineered nanomaterials; environmental exposure assessment; life cycle assessment; nanoinformatics; web-based simulation tool; Introduction Engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) are reported to be utilized in more than 1,000 commercial products owing to their unique size-related beneficial properties [1][2][3][4
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Published 13 Apr 2015
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