The IAEA highlights that plastic pollution is one of today’s most pressing global environmental challenges and a direct threat to sustainable development. According to projections, by 2025 the ocean will contain one tonne of plastic for every three tonnes of fish, and by 2050, there may be more plastic in...
Our member the Fraunhofer Institute FEP announced the creation in July 2021 of a joint venture with Ceravis AG, an agricultural trading group that primarily serves the entrepreneurial agricultural sector in Northern Germany. The newly formed E-VITA GmbH is dedicated to the chemical-free, sustainable treatment...
In 2013 scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University reported on research that could dramatically shrink particle accelerators for science and medicine, researchers used a laser to accelerate electrons at a rate 10 times higher than conventional...
The March-April 2021 issue of the Journal of the French Society of Chemistry “L’Actualité Chimique” is dedicated to radiation chemistry. The guest editors, Chantal Houée-Levin, Professor Emeritus of Paris Saclay University, and Gérard Baldacchino, CEA research engineer and President of the "Chemistry under radiation and radiochemistry" Society subdivision...
A few years after the accident in Chernobyl, black spots were observed in and around the nuclear power plant, looking like those sometimes found on shower curtains. Ekaterina Dadachova and her colleagues at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York studied the fungi,...
An interesting Coordinated Research Project (CRP) was initiated by the IAEA in 2017. The aim is to develop the opportunity of using radiation technologies for the advancement of sciences and health care, particularly related to systems for Tissue engineering. Project Name: Instructive Surfaces and Scaffolds for Tissue...
The Journal Materials Science and Engineering C: Materials for Biological Applications includes topics at the interface of the biomedical sciences and materials engineering. These topics include: • Bioinspired and biomimetic materials for medical applications • Materials of biological origin for medical applications • Materials for "active" medical applications • Self-assembling...
Preparation of Nanocomposite y-Al2O3/polyethylene separator crosslinked by electron beam irradiation for lithium secondary battery. This article describes advanced research related to the use of electron beam processing for the development of advanced materials for technological applications. The article was published on-line in Radiation Physics and Chemistry. Authors: GiorgianaYoung-Chang...
The IAEA publication The Radiation Chemistry of Polysaccharides provides background context and compiles the most recent research findings on the subject. It details activities relating to the development of radiation processed products made of natural polymers. commercial applications indicate that the radiation processing of natural polymers...
The Proceedings of the 19th International Meeting on Radiation Processing are now available as a Special Issue of Radiation Physics and Chemistry for which the guest editors were Gustavo Varca and Yves Henon. The issue contains the following 22 articles that were peer reviewed: Preparation of...
The Journal of Optics recently published a comprehensive review on the recent progress of radiation-hardened fiber-based technologies focusing on examples for space applications. The first part of the review introduces the operational principles of the various fiber-based technologies considered for use in radiation environments: passive optical...
