New EU-US initiative to advance sustainable development of new materials

8 juli, 2022

A new initiative called the International Network for Researching, Advancing, and Assessing Materials for Environmental Sustainability (INFRAMES) has been kicked-off aiming to leverage investments in US and EU networks in the area of environmental nanotechnology to assemble a coordinated international community of researchers dedicated to assessing the sustainability of the materials our society produces.

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