Program

Scientific Program

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

09:50 - 10:50Registration
10:50 - 11:00Welcome
11:00 - 11:30Jonas Schubert (DermaPurge)
Post-Exposure Protection as a new Concept to Handle Advanced Materials – Learning from the Past
11:30 - 12:00Stephan Müssig (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Inductively heatable magnetic nanoparticles for disassembly of components
12:00 - 13:00LUNCH
13:00 - 13:30Gadi Rothenberg (University of Amsterdam)
Sustainable electronics via smart chemistry waste management
13:30 - 13:55Olga Kuharenko (IPF - Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V.)
PEG-Mediated Assembly of Gold/Quantum Dot Supracolloids with Tunable Plasmon-Exciton Coupling
13:55 - 14:20Nina Oehlsen (Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg)
Replacing commodity plastics: Using Aspergillus niger mycelium biomass as a new engineering material with tunable mechanical properties
14:20 - 14:50Martin Rudolph (Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology & Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg)
Fine Particle Separation Technologies for the recycling of catalysts from End-of-Life Electrolyzer Membrane Electrode Assemblies
14:50 - 15:20BREAK
15:20 - 15:40Justus Hermannsdörfer (Nanoinitiative Bayern GmbH)
Introduction Dialog Nanotechnology
15:40 - 16:00Janine George (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung)
Robust Data Generation, Heuristics and Machine Learning for Designing Sustainable Materials
16:00 - 16:20Marco Werner (IPF - Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V.)
Data-driven research in sequence- and topology-controlled materials
16:20 - 16:40James-Lucas Cairns (BASF SE)
Integrating Sustainability into Computational Toxicology: BASF’s Approach to Safer Polymer Innovation
16:40 - 17:40Panel discussion
17:40 - 17:50Summary 
18:00 - 19:00Change location
19:00 - 22:00Conference Dinner 
"DRESDEN 1900 Museumsgastronomie"

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

09:10 - 09:40Sijie Lin (Tongji University)
Advancing Safer-by-Design Nanomaterials via Mechanistic Toxicology
09:40 - 10:10BREAK
10:10 - 10:40Alexander Münch (IPF - Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V.)
Structured deposition and staged release of distinct polymer-grafted gold nanoparticles from mesoscopic and macroscopic flat surfaces
10:40 - 11:05Annette Limke (IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine)
Comparative phenotypic mapping of nanoparticle neurotoxicity across laboratory and field-isolated nematodes
11:05 - 11:30Dang Tri Le (IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine)
Silica nanoparticles cause loss of GABAergic motor neurons and behavioral deficits in nematode roundworms Caenorhabditis elegans
11:30 - 12:00Anna K. Sambale (IPF - Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V.)
From linear to circular: linking structural evolution, part performance, and digital tools for reliable technical polymers
12:00 - 13:00LUNCH
13:00 - 13:30Edeltraud Günther (United Nations University & Dresden University of Technology) 
13:30 - 13:55Sandeep Sharma (Chemnitz University of Technology)
Life Cycle Assessment of CNT-Coated Silicon Wafers: Early Insights into the Environmental and Human Health Impacts
13:55 - 14:20Elana Kysil (IPB - Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry)
Closed-System Exposures Reveal Species-Specific Sensitivity of Reef-Building Corals to Polymeric Nanoparticles and Carbon Nanomaterials
14:20 - 14:50Yiannis Deligiannakis (University of Ioannina)
Precision Engineering of the Interplay between the Antioxidant vs Biocide activity of Nano-oxides by Flame Spray Pyrolysis: CeO2-x, SiO2-x as case studies
15:00 - 17:00Poster Session
16:00 - 17:00(Members Assembly LRA-AMS)

Thursday, November 6, 2025

09:00 - 09:30Stella A. Gonsales (University of Chemistry and Technology Prague)
Polyvinyl chloride upcycling: from waste to new materials
09:30 - 10:00BREAK
10:00 - 10:30Lars Bittrich (IPF - Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V.)
Tailored Fiber Placement: Process-Dependent Mesostructures for Resin Transfer Molding Applications
10:30 - 10:55Robin Wagner (IWM - Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien)
How Immersive Videos Affect the Perception of Nanomaterials
10:55 - 11:20Dana Kühnel (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH) / Katja Nau (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Safety and sustainability of innovative materials – the communication and knowledge base MANTRA
11:20 - 11:50Ron Dockhorn (Dresden University of Technology)
From Chaos to Control: Changing Habits for Effective Research Data Management
11:50 - 12:00Conclusion & Remarks