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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 nano@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.

Nano@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

nanoMATERIALS

nanoCHARACTERISATION

nanoDATA

nanoSAFETY

Graphic Nano Competence Center

Our areas of expertise

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Selected projects

ACCORDs - Green deal inspired correlative imaging-based characterization for safety profiling of 2D materials

PlasticsFatE - Plastics fate and effects on human health

PowerElec - EURAMET project

ELENA - Electrical nanoscale metrology in industry

STOP - Surface Transfer Of Pathogens

Find BAM research projects in the field of materials and other topics in the ReSEARCH BAM database

Selected publications

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“The human factor: results of a small-angle scattering data analysis Round Robin”, in Journal of Applied Crystallography, 2023

“Influence of the Morphology on the Functionalization of Graphene Nanoplatelets Analyzed by Comparative Photoelectron Spectroscopy with Soft and Hard X-Rays”, in: Advanced Materials Interface, 2023

“Assessing the reproducibility and up-scaling of the synthesis of Er,Yb-doped NaYF4-based upconverting nanoparticles and control of size, morphology, and optical properties”, Scientific Reports, 2023

“Aqueous Dispersions of Polypropylene: Toward Reference Materials for Characterizing Nanoplastics”, in: Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2023

“Workflow towards automated segmentation of agglomerated, non-spherical particles from electron microscopy images using artificial neural networks”, in Scientific Reports 2021

Further publications can be found in our database PUBLICA

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