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Life Cycle Thinking for the sustainability assessment of nanoparticles’ manufacturing and applications
The transition towards a sustainable society and the ability to respect both social rights and foundations and ecological constraints requires policies that are able to trigger new production and consumption patterns. Technological development plays an important role in this scenario. Indeed, new technologies can help in lowering environmental emissions and resource consumption. Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) has been identified as a systematic and holistic approach to assessing the sustainability of the life cycle of products and services from environmental, societal and economic perspectives. These types of assessments enable the transition towards a sustainable society, or at least help improve and select the best technologies to enable such transition. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Social-Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC) represent the methodological and operational applications of the life cycle thinking approach. This thesis presents a journey into the employment and interplay of LCT methodologies to assess systems producing and goods integrating nanoparticles. Nanoparticles and their applications are one of the most intriguing technological developments of this century. Indeed, they can be used in relevant sectors as a stand-alone technology or to enable and/or enhance other technologies/applications. The EPSRC-funded project Manufacturing Advanced Functional Materials (MAFuMa) focuses on manufacturing gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) and iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles (IONPs), as these two materials have existing applications in diagnostics and therapeutics. The project aims to design and demonstrate a new bespoke approach for manufacturing high-value nanomaterials to be used in the healthcare sector. The approach would allow manufacturers to synthesise nanoparticles in a controllable and reproducible way without involving difficulties in the upscaling the process. The research presented in this thesis focuses on applying life cycle thinking to the advancements in the field of gold ...
Life Cycle Thinking for the sustainability assessment of nanoparticles’ manufacturing and applications
The transition towards a sustainable society and the ability to respect both social rights and foundations and ecological constraints requires policies that are able to trigger new production and consumption patterns. Technological development plays an important role in this scenario. Indeed, new technologies can help in lowering environmental emissions and resource consumption. Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) has been identified as a systematic and holistic approach to assessing the sustainability of the life cycle of products and services from environmental, societal and economic perspectives. These types of assessments enable the transition towards a sustainable society, or at least help improve and select the best technologies to enable such transition. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Social-Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC) represent the methodological and operational applications of the life cycle thinking approach. This thesis presents a journey into the employment and interplay of LCT methodologies to assess systems producing and goods integrating nanoparticles. Nanoparticles and their applications are one of the most intriguing technological developments of this century. Indeed, they can be used in relevant sectors as a stand-alone technology or to enable and/or enhance other technologies/applications. The EPSRC-funded project Manufacturing Advanced Functional Materials (MAFuMa) focuses on manufacturing gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) and iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles (IONPs), as these two materials have existing applications in diagnostics and therapeutics. The project aims to design and demonstrate a new bespoke approach for manufacturing high-value nanomaterials to be used in the healthcare sector. The approach would allow manufacturers to synthesise nanoparticles in a controllable and reproducible way without involving difficulties in the upscaling the process. The research presented in this thesis focuses on applying life cycle thinking to the advancements in the field of gold ...
Life Cycle Thinking for the sustainability assessment of nanoparticles’ manufacturing and applications
Pucciarelli, Martina (author)
2023-09-28
Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).
Theses
Electronic Resource
English
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