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ClearSafe-and-Sustainable-by-Design Framework: (Re-)Designing the Advanced Materials Lifecycle
This paper proposed a Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design (SSbD) framework for redesigning advanced materials — including plastics and nanomaterials — to minimize hazards and environmental impacts from the earliest design stage. The framework integrates safety, environmental, and circularity criteria into materials development.
Safe nanomaterials: from their use, application, and disposal to regulations
This review surveys the global applications of nanomaterials across medicine, food, textiles, and electronics, along with the health and environmental risks they pose. It highlights that regulations governing nanomaterial safety vary widely between countries and calls for global standards based on a precautionary principle to ensure their responsible use and disposal.
Safe by Design for Nanomaterials—Late Lessons from Early Warnings for Sustainable Innovation
This review examines the 'Safe by Design' framework for nanomaterials, arguing that early evaluation of potential toxicity risks during the innovation process — drawing on lessons from past environmental warnings — is essential for sustainable advanced material development.
Policy and Regulatory Approaches to Mitigating Micro- and Nano Plastic Pollution
This chapter reviews policy and regulatory approaches to addressing microplastic and nanoplastic pollution globally. The study examines existing regulations, treatment technologies, and prevention strategies including product design modifications and improved waste management. The authors emphasize that effective governance requires collaboration among stakeholders and continued research, particularly on nanoplastics and human health impacts.
Science-society-policy interface for microplastic and nanoplastic: Environmental and biomedical aspects
This review proposed a new conceptual framework for addressing microplastic and nanoplastic pollution at the science-society-policy interface, covering detection methods, environmental and health impacts, and regulatory approaches.
Exposure and Possible Risks of Engineered Nanomaterials in the Environment—Current Knowledge and Directions for the Future
This 15-year retrospective of engineered nanomaterial (ENM) environmental research found that the field has progressed from observation of effects to mechanistic understanding, with advances in fate modeling and ecotoxicological assessment, but that material-specific risk assessment remains an ongoing challenge.
Environmental considerations and current status of grouping and regulation of engineered nanomaterials
Researchers reviewed how engineered nanomaterials — particles smaller than 100 nanometers — are used in construction, water treatment, and coatings, examining how they are released into the environment across their lifecycle and highlighting the regulatory gaps in Europe's current chemical safety framework for these materials.
Microplastics in marine ecosystems: A comprehensive review of biological and ecological implications and its mitigation approach using nanotechnology for the sustainable environment
This review summarizes how microplastics are harming marine ecosystems, from disrupting microbial communities and plankton to causing developmental problems in larger sea creatures. Through the food chain, these effects can ultimately reach humans, potentially causing hormone disruption and metabolic disorders. The authors also explore nanotechnology-based approaches and international cooperation as potential solutions for cleanup.
Governance and Sandbox: Building Self-regulation Models for Nanotechnologies
Not relevant to microplastics research; this paper discusses governance frameworks and regulatory sandbox models for overseeing nanotechnologies, with no focus on microplastic pollution.
Environmental Impact of Nanoparticles’ Application as an Emerging Technology: A Review
This review examines the environmental impact of engineered nanoparticles across their life cycle, from production to environmental release and effects on living organisms. The study highlights that while nanoparticles offer valuable industrial applications due to their unique properties, evidence indicates potential ecotoxicity across organisms from bacteria to complex animals, underscoring the need for more detailed safety regulations.
Micro- and Nano-Plastics Contaminants in the Environment: Sources, Fate, Toxicity, Detection, Remediation, and Sustainable Perspectives
This review provides a broad overview of micro- and nanoplastic pollution, covering where these particles come from, how they spread through the environment, and the damage they cause to living things including humans. The authors also compare different methods for removing microplastics from the environment, including physical, chemical, and biological approaches. The paper calls for more research and global cooperation to develop better tools for measuring the health risks of plastic pollution.
Expanding adverse outcome pathways towards one health models for nanosafety
This study proposes expanding adverse outcome pathway frameworks to incorporate One Health models for nanomaterial safety assessment. The research suggests that connecting chemical safety assessment, epidemiology, and ecology through a holistic multiscale approach could better evaluate the risks of nano-enabled products for both humans and the environment.
Contemporary challenges in face of nanotechnology regulatory gaps
This Brazilian review examines the regulatory gap between rapidly advancing nanotechnology and existing environmental legislation. The authors analyzed 21 scientific articles and found that while nanotechnology offers significant benefits for pollution remediation, potential risks remain poorly regulated, requiring stakeholder debate.
Environmental Impacts by Fragments Released from Nanoenabled Products: A Multiassay, Multimaterial Exploration by the SUN Approach
This study tested whether fragments released from nano-enabled products — materials containing engineered nanoparticles — caused environmental harm, finding that fragment effects were generally lower than those of the embedded nanomaterials alone. The results are relevant to assessing whether degradation of nanomaterial-containing consumer products generates hazardous micro- and nanoscale debris.
Eco-Interactions of Engineered Nanomaterials in the Marine Environment: Towards an Eco-Design Framework
This review examines the behavior and ecological impact of engineered nanomaterials entering the marine environment, with a focus on titanium dioxide nanoparticles. Researchers found that these materials interact with marine organisms and co-occurring pollutants including microplastics in complex ways that challenge current risk assessment frameworks. The study proposes an eco-design approach to help minimize the environmental impact of nanomaterials before they reach marine ecosystems.
Leveraging nanoparticle environmental health and safety research in the study of micro- and nano-plastics
Researchers argue that two decades of research on the environmental health and safety of engineered nanomaterials provides a strong foundation for studying micro- and nanoplastics. They outline how lessons from nano-safety research apply to understanding plastic particle toxicity, bioaccumulation, trophic transfer, and environmental behavior. The study emphasizes that existing tools and methodologies from nanotoxicology can accelerate progress in assessing the risks of particulate plastic pollution.
Nanomaterial's toxicity and its regulation strategies
This review examines the toxicity of nanomaterials used across biomedical, agricultural, and industrial applications, discussing how their unique physicochemical properties differ from bulk counterparts and evaluating regulatory strategies to manage risks to end-users and the environment.
Environmental Nanopollutants
This overview examines environmental nanopollutants — including engineered nanoparticles and degradation-derived nanoplastics — synthesising recent research on their sources, environmental fate, analytical detection methods, and health and ecological risks as emerging contaminants.
Nanoscale plastic pollution: sources, identification and potential mitigation
This review examines the sources, environmental fate, and potential mitigation strategies for nanoscale plastic pollution, tracing the accumulation of plastic particles from millimetre to nanometre scales over decades. It highlights key knowledge gaps and emerging approaches for reducing nanoplastic contamination in ecosystems.
Analytical and toxicological aspects of nanomaterials in different product groups: Challenges and opportunities
This review examined the analytical and toxicological challenges of engineered nanomaterials across consumer and industrial product groups, discussing release pathways, detection difficulties, and safety considerations including dose-metrics for assessing consumer risk.
Nanosafety: An Evolving Concept to Bring the Safest Possible Nanomaterials to Society and Environment
This review provides an overview of nanosafety as an evolving field, covering toxicological assessment methods, nanotoxicology approaches, and new technologies including organ-on-chip systems and biosensors. The authors discuss Life Cycle Assessment as an increasingly important nanosafety tool for evaluating the environmental impact of nanomaterials from production through disposal.
Next-generation nanomaterials for environmental remediation: smart design, hybrid materials and sustainable use
Researchers reviewed advances in eco-engineered nanomaterials for remediating persistent environmental contaminants — including PFAS, microplastics, heavy metals, and pharmaceuticals — covering adsorption, photocatalytic, and magnetic recovery systems, while discussing sustainability challenges around lifecycle, toxicity, and real-world deployment.
Challenges and opportunities in sustainable management of microplastics and nanoplastics in the environment
This review examines the challenges and emerging strategies for sustainably managing micro- and nanoplastic pollution in the environment. Researchers assessed various approaches including advanced filtration, biodegradation, chemical recycling, and policy interventions aimed at reducing plastic waste. The study emphasizes that achieving meaningful progress will require combining technological solutions with stronger regulations and changes in how plastics are produced and consumed.
Nanoparticles in the Environment and Nanotoxicology
This review examines the environmental fate and toxicological risks of nanomaterials, including engineered nanoparticles and microplastics/nanoplastics, as these materials are increasingly released into ecosystems. The paper surveys current understanding of nanotoxicology and highlights the potential risks that nanoparticle contamination poses to both ecological and human health.