Mission: Focusing on providing guidance on the occupational safety and health implications and applications of advanced manufacturing, including nanomaterial manufacturing.

Nanotechnology is highly interdisciplinary, involving physics, chemistry, biology, materials science, and the full range of the engineering disciplines. The word nanotechnology refers to both the science and the technology of this emerging field. Nanoscience concerns a basic understanding of physical, chemical, and biological properties on atomic and near-atomic scales. Nanotechnology employs controlled manipulation of matter on a near-atomic scale to produce new structures, materials and devices. The technology promises scientific advancement in many sectors such as medicine, consumer products, energy, materials, and manufacturing. Nanotechnology refers to engineered structures, devices, and systems

Nanoscience breakthroughs in almost every field of science and nanotechnologies make life easier in this era. Nanoscience and nanotechnology represent an expanding research area, which involves structures, devices, and systems with novel properties and functions due to the arrangement of their atoms on the 1–100 nm scale.

The activity of Nanotechnologies, Materials and Production Technologies has a strong socioeconomic relevance. Nanotechnologies enable novel solutions and could result in improved performance in the entire production sector as well as in the health/medicine/agriculture domains

Researching, developing, and utilizing these properties is at the heart of new technology.

The AcIRSTD works on developing new nanotechnologies for use in fields such as medicine, electronics, and energy. New nanoparticles developed by the Academy can be used in drug delivery systems, sensors, and solar cells. These nanoparticles have demonstrated promising results in their respective fields, and they have the potential to transform the way we live and work.

OBJECTIVES

  • Support responsible development of nanotechnology.
  • Incorporate sustainability in the responsible development of nanotechnology.
  • Increasing understanding of hazards and related health risks to workers who make and use advanced materials such as nanomaterials.
  • Preventing occupational exposures to advanced materials such as nanomaterials through understanding control technologies and protective technologies.
  • Stimulate and support evidence based national and international scientific research to solve major local issues.
  • Develop the national capacity to identify, define, and responsibly address concepts and challenges specific to the ethical, legal, and societal implications (ELSI) of nanotechnology.

  • Promote the time tested and all-encompassing scientific research, creativity and balanced view point for the welfare of all.

RESEARCH AREA

  • Conducts research on the impact of nanotechnology on health, appropriate exposure monitoring and control strategies and health risks associated with manufacturing using nanomaterials
  • Conducts research to better understand the effects of advanced materials, including engineered nanomaterials, on human health and methods to control or eliminate exposures.
  • Conducts research and providing guidance on the occupational safety and health implications and applications of advanced materials and nanotechnology
  • Conducts research on new nanotechnologies for use in fields such as medicine, electronics, and energy as well as drug delivery systems, sensors, and solar cells.
  • Conducts research on developing new multifunctional surfaces and materials with tailored properties and predictable performance for new products and processes as well as for their repair.