Battery, Nanotechnology Partnership Launched by EPA to Protect Environment

Summary posted by Meridian on 3/9/2010
Source: The Bureau of National Affairs' Daily Environment Report
Author: Pat Rizzuto

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a partnership that will focus on bringing manufacturers of various types of lithium-ion batteries together with EPA and university scientists, non-governmental organizations, and other relevant parties, to help the manufacturers make environmentally sound manufacturing and material choices. This Design for the Environment partnership (DfE) is the first that has addressed an application of nanotechnology, by targeting companies that make lithium-ion batteries with carbon nanotubes. A fact sheet produced by DfE states that "[W]hen completed, it is expected that the life-cycle assessment results can be used by the lithium-ion battery industry to identify the materials or processes within a product's life cycle that are likely to pose the greatest impacts or potential risks to public health or the environment....In addition, given the use of nanotechnology in current and future lithium-ion battery products, the life-cycle analysis will also promote nanotechnology innovations in advanced batteries that result in reduced overall environmental emissions, including greenhouse gas emissions." Clive Davies, chief of EPA's DfE Branch, says the goal is to provide companies, by mid-2011, with information on how to improve their extraction, manufacturing and disposal practices. The article can be viewed online at the link below.

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our team contact us site map	Battery, Nanotechnology Partnership Launched by EPA to Protect Environment Summary posted by Meridian on 3/9/2010 Source: The Bureau of National Affairs' Daily Environment Report Author: Pat Rizzuto The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a partnership that will focus on bringing manufacturers of various types of lithium-ion batteries together with EPA and university scientists, non-governmental organizations, and other relevant parties, to help the manufacturers make environmentally sound manufacturing and material choices. This Design for the Environment partnership (DfE) is the first that has addressed an application of nanotechnology, by targeting companies that make lithium-ion batteries with carbon nanotubes. A fact sheet produced by DfE states that "[W]hen completed, it is expected that the life-cycle assessment results can be used by the lithium-ion battery industry to identify the materials or processes within a product's life cycle that are likely to pose the greatest impacts or potential risks to public health or the environment....In addition, given the use of nanotechnology in current and future lithium-ion battery products, the life-cycle analysis will also promote nanotechnology innovations in advanced batteries that result in reduced overall environmental emissions, including greenhouse gas emissions." Clive Davies, chief of EPA's DfE Branch, says the goal is to provide companies, by mid-2011, with information on how to improve their extraction, manufacturing and disposal practices. The article can be viewed online at the link below. The original article may still be available at news.bna.com/deln/DELNWB/split_display.adp?fedfid=16377675&vname=de... As tagged by Meridian Institute: Energy: Energy, Batteries Implications: Human Enhancement, Governance, Economic Competitiveness Materials And Manufacturing: Manufacturing, Materials Nanomaterials: Carbon Nanoparticle Regions: North America Stakeholders: Government, Industry, NGO, Academia Minerals And Metals: Metals Related Forums: Materials and Manufacturing Metals and Minerals Economic Competitiveness Governance print format	NDN Home Subscribe Manage Subscription Search News Archives 3rd International Seminar on Nanosciences and Nanotechnology -- Seminario Naotecnologias Cuba (7/29/2010) The 3rd International Seminar on Nanosciences and Nanotechnology, organized by the Office of the Scientific Advisor to the State Council of the Republic of Cuba and the Center for Advanced Cuban Studes (CEAC), will take place from September 6-10, 2010, in Havana, Cuba. The aim of the conference is to open new paths of cooperation for the development of CEAC, consolidate existent and emerging networks in the country, and provide elements for the design of a national strategy in this field. [More] Super-sizing a Cancer Drug Minimizes Side Effects -- MIT News (7/29/2010) Scientists at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) have designed a new version of the drug cisplatin, one of the first chemotherapy drugs given to patients diagnosed with cancer, that spares the kidneys, allowing doctors to use higher doses. [More] An Asphalt Pact Cut Fumes—& Created A Model -- New Haven Independent (7/29/2010) At a recent conference hosted by the United States National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), convened to talk about the potential health hazards in the nanotechnology industry, a successful partnership between government, industry, and workers to tackle worker safety in the asphalt industry was looked to as a possible model for addressing worker safety in the nanotechnology industry. [More] Nanomagnets Remove Pathogens from Blood -- Nanowerk (7/28/2010) Researchers from the Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering of the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, have demonstrated a novel use of nanomagnets to rapidly and selectively remove heavy metal ions, overdosed steroid drugs and proteins from human blood. [More] More News... Learn how to include these headlines on your own website by clicking here. Please email us if you require text-only versions of the daily emails.