Challenges for sustainable life


22 Sept.			14:00 - 15:30



HEALTH & NANOMEDICINE
TACKLING GLOBAL CHALLENGES WITH ELECTROSPINNING
TT.XI - Technical Multi-Track with Parallel SYMPOSIA
Challenges for sustainable life
Co-organized with CNR -IIA Chairs: Antonella MACAGNANO - CV & Fabrizio DE CESARE - CV, CNR - IIA
Green manufacturing has emerged across industries, boosted by a growing consciousness of the negative environmental and health impacts linked to traditional practices. Electrospinning has achieved wide interest as a novel sustainable material processing technique due to its ease of operation and wide adaptability for fabricating eco-friendly fibers on a nanoscale. To render electrospinning more attractive as a commercial technique and further improve scalability, both eco-friendly solvent and other green routes have to be used in order to observe the societal and legal restrictions, especially regarding the environmental and health impacts. Furthermore, considering that animal manure, organic portion of municipal solid garbage, industrial waste biomass, and natural vegetation cycle waste are examples of enormous amounts of organic waste produced by various sectors, electrospinning technology has been proposed as promising actor within a virtuosic circuit of circular economy. Thus, both waste biomass and other recyclable materials are finding use in electrospinning as adaptable and sustainable innovative approaches for making a wide range of higher hierarchical nanofibrous products with different architectures (e.g., fabrics, nets, honeycomb, coatings) and smart performances (e.g., biodegradable bio plastic, filtration membranes, multifunctional packaging, surface coatings, textiles, sensors, tools for agriculture, etc.). Some recent CNR achievements in National and International Projects are addressed and discussed here, in collaboration with Italian industries.
The symposium is part of the Workshop WS.V
TT.XI.B.1 WS.V.3.1	Alberto FIGOLI - CV ITM-CNR Toward a sustainable membrane fabrication by electrospinning
TT.XI.B.2 WS.V.3.2	Fabrizio DE CESARE - CV University of Tuscia - CNR - IIA Tackling future food demand developing electrospun nanofibrous products for sustainable agriculture
TT.XI.B.3 WS.V.3.3	Massimo MARI - CV CNR-IIA The electrospinning technology: a precious tool to innovate productive cycles, promote the eco-design of products and support the ecological transition
TT.XI.B.4 WS.V.3.4	Simona PELLEGRI - CV Invenio Solutions I find, I discover-INVENIO SRL: production from electrospinning of innovative, highly performing and eco-friendly electrospun materials