Researchers reported in Nature Communications this week that they have educated the three-dimensional shape and orientation of individual nanoparticles using X-ray free-electron lasers (located at the national research center in Germany). These types of advances in NM characterisation methods could lead to allowing direct observation of changes in NP structure. Read more here.
NanoSafePack: 'Safe Handling and Use of Nanoparticles in Packaging'- a project (funded under the EU’s FP7) which aims to develop a best practices guide for the safe handling and use of nanomaterials have released a 'Best Practice Guide for the Safe Handling and Use of Nanoparticles in Packaging Industries'. This guide is intended to support those working with nanomaterials. The ‘NanoSafePack can be downloaded here. The data comes from a complete hazard and exposure assessment conducted on NM in conjunction with polymer matrices (nanocomposites).
GoogleX (the life science department of Google) have developed a fake skin as part of it's ongoing work with nanomaterials: