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The Sponsorship Programme for the Testing of Manufactured Nanomaterials (further referred to as “the Testing Programme”) was concluded in March 2013, and the publication of the dossiers via the OECD website (www.oecd.org/science/nanosafety) started in June 2015. As indicated in the “Guidance manual for the testing of manufactured nanomaterials: OECD’s sponsorship programme”, after conclusion of the Testing Programme a next step is to consider “the status, need for, and coordination of further test development”. Parallel to concluding the final stages of the Testing Programme, a series of workshops have taken place, in which for different topics the applicability of existing OECD test guidelines for nanomaterials was discussed and the need for new ones analysed. One workshop focussed on physico-chemical methods, addressing in detail the relevance of each physico-chemical endpoint proposed in the Testing Programme for the regulation of nanomaterials. The methods were discussed in more general terms. However, as most of the proposed endpoints are new to the OECD Test Guidelines Programme, a much more detailed evaluation of the applied methods would
be highly relevant.
To this extent,the Netherlands volunteered to lead an initial detailed evaluation of the applicability of the test methods applied to determine the physico-chemical properties of different types of nanomaterials in the Testing Programme. This initial focus on physico-chemical properties was prompted by the essential need for an adequate and complete characterisation of nanomaterials to enable a further evaluation of their (toxicological) properties.
A number of experts from several delegations volunteered to review and evaluate the methods applied to determine the physico-chemical properties of the nanomaterials in the Testing Programme.
The requirement for a metrological infrastructure to ensure the interchangability of 'nonconventional’ energy gases within existing European infrastructure1 was the driving force behind the work undertaken in the three-year EMRP Characterisation of energy gases project EMRP ENG01 (June 2010 - May 2013).
As part of work package one of the project, Standards and methods were used to perform composition and impurity measurements on samples of real energy gases collected from around Europe. The aim of this study was to compare the results obtained from different labs, and thereby provide an evaluation of the labs’ capabilities and provide insight into the feasibility of different analytical methodologies for use with future measurements.
This application note presents how EnviroESCA can be used to analyze bacterial samples under near ambient pressure conditions in various states of hydration using different levels of humidity. Such investigations of bacterial cell wall surfaces in their hydrated state are essential for studying biological interfaces at work.
The use of innovative near-ambient pressure (NAP-)XPS instrumentation allows the detailed analysis of irregularly-surfaced biofilms. NAP-XPS enables the surface analysis of bacterial samples in their natural hydrated state without complex sample preparation techniques such as freeze-drying or fast-freezing, which are needed for XPS analysis in ultrahigh vacuum.