It is not unreasonable to say that the specificity of Polymer Reaction Engineering (PRE) has always been the very strong relationship between the product one obtains, and the process and reactor used to make it. As the adage goes “polymers are product by process”.

In November 2022, a part of the IRIS team visited UPV/POLYMAT facilities in San Sebastian (Spain) to continue working in the Dilution System for the Turbidity Spectrometry (TUS) sensor.

Colleagues from BRAVE participated at the esib2022 with a fantastic booth in Section 18 presenting its own company, their OF2i technology, their products as well as the NanoPAT project.

Within the context the M4 Consortium Meeting of the Horizon Europe MOZART project, Cnano organised a Citizen Engagement Event on plating technologies to promote the Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design (SSbD) approach during the electroless and electroplating process.

This year, the Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (acib) and the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten organized jointly a hands-on event for Austria under the motto “Life is Science – in a digital world,” targeted to all ages, from school classes to families to students considering careers in science, focused on the topics of Health & Food, Climate & Environment, Digital Transformation and Culture & Community at the crossroads of cutting-edge research and everyday life.

On the occasion of the NanoCommons final conference, the whole nanosafety community came together for the NanoWeek 2022, which took place in Limassol, Cyprus from 20-24 June 2022. Led by the NanoCommons project, NanoPAT and other 17 other currently running nanosafety projects joined forces and supported organizing the event.

The Athens Conference on Advances in Chemistry (ACAC2022), was held from 26 June – 1 July 2022 in Athens, Greece, in the campus of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). NanoPAT was represented in the event.

For the M24 General Assembly (14-15 June 2022), NanoPAT partners were able to meet physically in Potsdam (Germany). It was a fantastic meeting, with informative presentations of the progress in the different tasks and very active discussions between the different partners!

On May 24th, the UP/innoFSPEC team visited the Covestro’s facilities in Waalwijk (Netherlands), within the framework of Case Study 1, monitoring particle formation of polyurethane dispersions and polyacrylate emulsions.

The NanoPAT project was presented at the BioNanoNet Gold Member Webinar on 31 May.