Environmental Risk Assessment and Management Group (ERAM)
The ERAM group is pioneering methods and applications in environmental risk assessment of advanced materials (including engineered nanomaterials), CO2- and bio-based materials, plastics and chemicals and is developing approaches to implement the Safe and Sustainable by Design concept, enabling a comprehensive and early view of opportunities and risks of new materials and technologies.
Development and Application of Methods
- Environmental risk assessment
- Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD)
- Experimental work on release of materials
- Material and Substance Flow Analysis
- Risk/benefit assessment
- Probabilistic Assessment and Meta-Analysis
- Guidelines and Tools to support informed decision making
- Technology Assessment
- Early-Stage Screening and prospective LCA
Materials
- Advanced materials, inlcuding engineered nanomaterials and nanobiomaterials
- Microplastics and nanoplastics, including tire wear particles
- Plastics
- Bio-based materials and polymers
- Woody biomass
- Protein-based polymers
- Side-chain fluorinated polymers, fluoropolymers and perfluoropolyethers
- Smart materials/products
Application fields
- Textiles
- Medicine
- Electronics
- Consumer products
- Biosensors
- Construction
- Carbon capture and usage
Details on current and past projects can be found here.
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Group January 2025. Top row from left: Bernd Nowack, Claudia Som, Hyunjoo Hong, John Hader, Zhanyun Wang, Merve Tunali, Danyang Jiang, Yiwen Zhang, Jacopo Sorani; on the stairs from right: Stephanie Eitner, Huadong Xing, Matthis Schäfer, Nadia Malinverno, Mauricio Ortiz Galvez, Kealie Vogel, Nurshen Mutlu, Akshat Sudheshwar, Fiorella Pitaro, Tim Börner, Vicenc Pomar Portillo, Elias Zimmermann; not on photo: Jimeng Wu
Contact
Empa
Technology & Society Laboratory
Lerchenfeldstrasse 5
CH-9014 St. Gallen
Tel.: +41 58 765 76 92
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