BAM conducts research into the characterisation and safe use of nanoparticles.
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Making the handling of nanomaterials safe
Nanomaterials can be found in many everyday products, from cosmetics and clothing to electronic devices. They are also increasingly being used in new areas such as medicines, additive manufacturing and sustainable energy storage. In our AdvancedMaterials@BAM competence center, we are working with national and international research groups to investigate how nanomaterials can be synthesized, produced, characterized and used safely in a reliable and reproducible manner. To this end, we consider nanomaterials over their entire life cycle: from material development, production, processing and use to recycling or disposal.
In order to obtain reliable data and carry out comprehensive safety assessments, nano reference materials and reference methods for characterization are important. BAM develops nano test materials and nano reference materials with different properties and uses reference methods for their characterization.
AdvancedMaterials@BAM: Services and competences
Our expertise includes:
- Development of reference processes and materials
- Workshops and training for various measurement methods
- Database for nano reference materials
- Organization of round robin tests
- Investigation, development and application of new nanomaterials
Our fields of competence
Our areas of expertise
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Selected projects
Graphene Flagship – Graphene: Europe in the Lead
ACCORDs - Green deal inspired correlative imaging-based characterization for safety profiling of 2D materials
PlasticsFatE - Plastics fate and effects on human health
Find BAM research projects in the field of materials and other topics in the ReSEARCH BAM database
Selected publications
“A Self-Driving Lab for Nano- and Advanced Materials Synthesis”, in: ACS Nano, 2025
Further publications can be found in our database PUBLICA