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Industry will be increasingly calling on nano-structured materials to meet future requirements, including mature markets with industrial-scale runs (such as in the automobile sector), high value-added markets (such as aerospace), and emerging markets (new energy technologies, for example). Nanotechnologies will also be of increasing importance in markets that are arising from global preoccupations such as advanced energy technologies, environmental activities, and society’s future demands for new functions (individual health and protection, for example).
The generalised growth of nanotechnologies in the design and fabrication of future multi-functional materials is now clearly seen as a possible first-choice solution to develop new products and functions, or enhance existing ones. Despite this bright future, however, this industrial scale transformation of materials will only come to fruition if we act responsibly to overcome the various technological, economic, and social acceptability obstacles hindering nanotechnologies. This latter component includes taking into account our capacity to control nanotechnology risks over the entire product lifecycle, from initial fabrication to recycling.
This is the backdrop to the intense cooperation between CILAS and the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) for the development of technologies leading to the safe production of multi-functional, top-level nanotechnology materials.
 Metrology and monitoring of processes, based on the development of laser technologies in particle-size analysis, morpho-particle analysis, contact-free analysis of aerosols and suspensions, and the checking of industrial atmospheres. Demonstrating our capacity to control all steps in the nano-manufacturing process is a key requirement that must be met to enable general public acceptance of nano-materials.
Controlling workshop atmospheres
Analysis of workshop atmosphere in order to protect personnel and interrupt manufacturing in the event of leaks. In other words, a “detection” function.
Have the necessary expertise to create a negative pressure difference between the workshop and the exterior environment so as to prevent leakages.
Conditioning and handling of nano-materials suspended in a liquid to ensure that they can be safely transported from one safe area to another.
CEA origin
Safe Production
New technology requirements for the generation of nanoparticles originating in the strong growth of nanotechnologies are spurring the development of innovative multi-technical synthesis tools in line with the industry's future requirements in terms of flexibility of production of nano-structured hybrid particles. The European SAPHIR project (coordinated by CILAS and the CEA) will lead to the development of an integrated and safe device for multi-technique.
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Poster Saphir 2010
Abstract SAPHIR Nanosafe 2010
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Abstract Saphir Nanotech
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