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Bridging international approaches on nanoEHS

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The challenge of assessing the scope and magnitude of risk from nanomaterials is urgent for society and ignoring risks could be detrimental for development. This challenge is bigger than the individual capacities on each side of the Atlantic, but effective cross-Atlantic collaboration can solve essential riddles about the use of nanomaterials.

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Financial support to CESAM (UIDB/50017/2020 + UIDP/50017/2020), to FCT/MCTES through national funds (PIDDAC), and the co-funding by the FEDER, within the PT2020 Partnership Agreement and Compete 2020. Excellence Initiative of Aix-Marseille University - A*MIDEX, a French “Investissements d’Avenir” program, through the Labex SERENADE. National Science Foundation (EEC-1449500) Nanosystems Engineering Research Center on Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment. The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the individual authors and not those of the US Army, European Commission or other sponsor organizations.

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  2. Christine Ogilvie Hendren

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  1. Aarhus University, Silkeborg, Denmark

    Janeck James Scott-Fordsmand

  2. Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Mónica João de Barros Amorim

  3. CESAM, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Mónica João de Barros Amorim

  4. Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Coll France, CEREGE, Aix en Provence, France

    Camille de Garidel-Thoron

  5. West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA

    Vincent Castranova

  6. Edelweiss Connect, Basel, Switzerland

    Barry Hardy

  7. US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Concord, MA, USA

    Igor Linkov

  8. European Scientific Institute, Archamps, France

    Ilise Feitshans

  9. Work Health and Survival Project, Haddonfield, USA

    Ilise Feitshans

  10. Homeland Defense and Security Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge, TN, USA

    Gregory Nichols

  11. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

    Elijah Joel Petersen

  12. NERC Ctr Ecol & Hydrol, Wallingford, England

    David Spurgeon

  13. IDA/Science and Technology Policy Institute, Washington, DC, USA

    Sally Tinkle

  14. National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Ulla Vogel

  15. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Paul Westerhoff

  16. Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

    Mark Robert Wiesner & Christine Ogilvie Hendren

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Scott-Fordsmand, J.J., Amorim, M.J.d.B., de Garidel-Thoron, C. et al. Bridging international approaches on nanoEHS. Nat. Nanotechnol. 16, 608–611 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-021-00912-5

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