Safe and sustainable development of advanced materials: UK National Knowledge Sharing Network Workshops.

ABSTRACT: The term advanced materials (AM) is used widely to cover a large number of diverse new innovative materials, including nanomaterials, advanced composites, innovative surface coatings, (bio)polymers, porous and particle systems, ceramics, smart and metamaterials and advanced fibres and textiles. With any new materials, there are commercial and performance advantages that need to be balanced with any potential environmental, health and safety issues, for example, around exposure, toxicity, sustainability and waste. Key players in the UK from government bodies, research, measurement and standardisation organisations, academia and industry came together to consider these issues via two online workshops in April 2021 and February 2023. At each event, scene-setting presentations by key ex

SUBMITTER: Clifford CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11775645 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature