• Product number 4,000 added to The Nanodatabase

    Posted 01.06.2020

    Product number 3000 was published back in April 2017 and now we have reached product number 4000 in the database!

    Silver is still the nanomaterial reported to be used in most products, with the 2nd and 3rd largest groups being Titanium and Titanium dioxide. Nevertheless, in almost 3000 products the type of nanomaterial is...


  • Sweden’s largest nanosafety research programme – Mistra Environmental Nanosafety – launches phase two

    Posted 31.05.2019

    DTU Environment is proud to be involved in Sweden’s largest nanosafety research programme as Stiftelsen för miljöstrategisk forskning (Mistra) launched phase two of it's project on Environmental Nano safety on the 9th of May, 2019.

    The second phase of Environmental Nano safety will gathers researchers from Lund University, Chalmers University of Technology, University of Gothenburg,...


  • New paper in Nature Nanotechnology calls for regulatory framework specific for nanomaterials

    Posted 24.08.2017

    In an article published in the prestigious scientific journal, Nature Nanotechnology, Associate Professor Steffen Foss Hansen from DTU Environment calls for the adoption of a new regulatory framework for nanomaterials.

    The framework is called REACT NOW which stands for Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, Categorisation and Tools to Evaluate Nanomaterials – Opportunities and...