Overseas Training > 2010 > Nobumitsu Sakai
Nobumitsu Sakai
The implementation of risk assessment of nanomaterials
Environmental Risk Analysis Laboratory, Division of Environmental Systems Engineering, Department of Urban and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering
Place of stay: ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute) and NHRI (National Health Research Institute), Taiwan
Term: March 1 – March 12, 2010
Recently, nanotechnology has developed and its market has been rapidly expanding. Many countries, especially in developed countries, invest much money in the nanotechnology development.
On the other hand, there is an urgent need to address risk assessment of nanomaterials used in nanotechnology; however it has not been determined how to evaluate the risk of nanomaterials, which individually have specific physical and chemical properties. In Taiwan, the Taiwan National Science and Technology Program for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology was initiated in 2003. For the development of nanotechnology, 10 government departments and organizations take part in this program. It also addresses the risk assessment of nanomaterials for biological safety. I plan to join this program and implement the risk assessment in this internship. In this first visit, I discussed about the current situation of the risk assessment with the researchers of ITRI and NHRI. And I plan to make some experiments in cooperation with local researchers in the next visit. I feel this internship gives me some skills to work internationally, so it is very encouraging.
