On 14th March 2023 the HE project IRISS organised an online informative session about how the IRISS project applies the Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design (SSbD) framework in value chains and SMEs. The workshop was held by the Sustainable and Safe by Design Work Group of the Spanish SusChem (SusChem-ES). Mrs. Anne Chloé (Cefic – European Chemical Industry Council) explained that this project aims to connect, synergize and transform the SSbD community in Europe and globally towards a lifecycle approach.

On 13th March 2023 all NanoPAT partners gathered virtually for the Internal Stakeholder Workshop organised by BNN, the Communication and Dissemination Manager of the project.

NanoPAT was featured in the latest BNN QUARTERLY issue (March 2023) with an article about the project videos release (page 44) and another one about the NanoPAT success story: OF2i leaps from PAT to research from our partner BRAVE (pages 45-47).

Between the 20th and 22nd of February 2023, a group of colleagues from the IRIS team (Susana Gómez Sanza, Juan Vicente, Eric Garcia and Jose Javier Ruiz) visited UPV/POLYMAT with the purpose of continuing their work on the Dilution System for the TUS sensor.

This video provides an overview about the EU H2020 NanoPAT project. It explains why the characterisation of nanoparticles is crucial for manufacturing processes, which are the main features of conventional characterisation technologies and which novel technologies are being developed in NanoPAT to overcome the shortcomings of the traditional ones. Furthermore, the scope of the project, the 3 real-time in situ particle size characterisation (Photon Density Wave Spectroscopy (PDW), OptoFluidic Force Induction (OF2i), TUrbidity Spectrometry (TUS)), as well as the 5 case studies where the technologies will be validated are presented.

On 30th January 2022, the Nanotechnology Industries Association (NIA) organised a webinar giving an Overview of the newest Characterisation Techniques available nowadays. NIA, on behalf of Members across Europe and around the world, supports the development of nanotechnology innovations that improve the lives of consumers, preserve our environment and advance our world.

This video provides a brief overview of the three novel complementary real-time in situ particle size characterisation technologies (Process Analytical Technologies (PAT)) that are being developed in NanoPAT.

On 26-27 January 2022, the whole Consortium met in San Sebastian (Spain) for getting up-to-date with the developments and achievements during the last months.
It was a great get-together with lots of very fruitful discussions that set the basis for the upcoming months!

During our stay in San Sebastian, we were able to visit UPV/EHU labs, being able to see how our PATs are being tested there!

Special thanks to our Basque colleagues in San Sebastian (UPV/EHU and POLYMAT) for hosting such a great meeting, and sharing with us a bit of your Euskera language and culture!

“Die Lange Nacht der Forschung” (The Long Night of Research) is a biannual event, that takes throughout Austria, offering free access to experience science and research first-hand in all nine federal provinces.

In November 2022 (21st – 25th), James Bolton, TUS expert at IRIS, visited BRAVE facilities in Graz (Austria) to perform experiments with IRIS’ TUS sensor in Cnano’s nanoparticle suspensions, aligned with Case Study 5.