Collaborative Preps for 2009 Nano Summit
Martin Armes, Thursday, July 23, 2009
The Research Triangle Environmental Health Collaborative hosts an invitation-only working summit for 150 attendees on October 8-9, 2009 at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center in Research Triangle Park, NC, focused on Environmentally Responsible Development of Nanotechnology.
As another activity to further strengthen the Research Triangle region as the epicenter for contemporary thinking about environmental health, the Summit will identify critical issues in nano-enabled product development and manufacturing and explore the nanomanufacturing landscape; so that businesses can overcome barriers to success related to environmental/occupational health concerns. The outcome of this meeting will be a guidance document to highlight these critical issues and provide business and policymakers with recommendations about how to successfully address them.
In addition to three plenary sessions, there are three different work groups focused on Nanomaterials Fabrication, Nanomaterials Integration into Products and Nanomaterials Disposal and End of Life Issues.