ASTM standards for nanotechnology provide guidance for nanotechnology and nanomaterials, as well as nanotechnology terminology, property testing, and issues of health and safety.

Nanotechnology Standards

ASTM standards for nanotechnology provide guidance for nanotechnology and nanomaterials, as well as nanotechnology terminology, property testing, and issues of health and safety.

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Education and Workforce Development

E3001-20 Standard Practice for Workforce Education in Nanotechnology Characterization

E2996-20 Standard Guide for Workforce Education in Nanotechnology Health and Safety

E3034-20 Standard Guide for Workforce Education in Nanotechnology Pattern Generation

E3071-22 Standard Guide for Nanotechnology Workforce Education in Materials Synthesis and Processing

E3059-22 Standard Guide for Workforce Education in Nanotechnology Infrastructure

E3089-22 Standard Guide for Nanotechnology Workforce Education in Material Properties and Effects of Size

Environment, Health, and Safety

E2535-07(2018) Standard Guide for Handling Unbound Engineered Nanoscale Particles in Occupational Settings

E2526-22 Standard Test Method for Evaluation of Cytotoxicity of Nanoparticulate Materials in Porcine Kidney Cells and Human Hepatocarcinoma Cells

E2525-22 Standard Test Method for Evaluation of the Effect of Nanoparticulate Materials on the Formation of Mouse Granulocyte-Macrophage Colonies

E2524-22 Standard Test Method for Analysis of Hemolytic Properties of Nanoparticles

Informatics and Terminology

E3144-19 Standard Guide for Reporting the Physical and Chemical Characteristics of Nano-Objects

E2909-13 Standard Guide for Investigation/Study/Assay Tab-Delimited Format for Nanotechnologies (ISA-TAB-Nano): Standard File Format for the Submission and Exchange of Data on Nanomaterials and Characterizations (Withdrawn 2021)

E3206-19 Standard Guide for Reporting the Physical and Chemical Characteristics of a Collection of Nano-Objects

E2456-06(2020) Standard Terminology Relating to Nanotechnology

E3172-18 Standard Guide for Reporting Production Information and Data for Nano-Objects

Nano-Enabled Consumer Products

E3171-21a Standard Test Method for Determination of Total Silver in Textiles by ICP-OES or ICP-MS Analysis

E3025-22 Standard Guide for Tiered Approach to Detection and Characterization of Silver Nanomaterials in Textiles

Nano-Enabled Medical Products

E3275-21 Standard Guide for Visualization and Identification of Nanomaterials in Biological and Nonbiological Matrices Using Darkfield Microscopy/Hyperspectral Imaging (DFM/HSI) Analysis

E3238-20 Standard Test Method for Quantitative Measurement of the Chemoattractant Capacity of a Nanoparticulate Material in vitro

E3324-22 Standard Test Method for Lipid Quantitation in Liposomal Formulations Using Ultra-High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (UHPLC) with Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry (TQMS)

E3297-21 Standard Test Method for Lipid Quantitation in Liposomal Formulations Using High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) with a Charged Aerosol Detector (CAD)

E3351-22 Standard Test Method for Detection of Nitric Oxide Production In Vitro

E3323-22 Standard Test Method for Lipid Quantitation in Liposomal Formulations Using High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) with an Evaporative Light-Scattering Detector (ELSD)

Physical and Chemical Characterization

E3247-20 Standard Test Method for Measuring the Size of Nanoparticles in Aqueous Media Using Dynamic Light Scattering

E3269-21 Standard Test Method for Determination of the Mass Fraction of Particle-Bound Gold in Colloidal Gold Suspensions

E3220-20 Standard Guide for Characterization of Graphene Flakes

E2490-09(2021) Standard Guide for Measurement of Particle Size Distribution of Nanomaterials in Suspension by Photon Correlation Spectroscopy (PCS)

E2578-07(2022) Standard Practice for Calculation of Mean Sizes/Diameters and Standard Deviations of Particle Size Distributions

E2834-12(2022) Standard Guide for Measurement of Particle Size Distribution of Nanomaterials in Suspension by Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA)

E2865-12(2022) Standard Guide for Measurement of Electrophoretic Mobility and Zeta Potential of Nanosized Biological Materials

E2864-18(2022) Standard Test Method for Measurement of Airborne Metal Oxide Nanoparticle Surface Area Concentration in Inhalation Exposure Chambers using Krypton Gas Adsorption

E2859-11(2023) Standard Guide for Size Measurement of Nanoparticles Using Atomic Force Microscopy

E3143-18b(2023) Standard Practice for Performing Cryo-Transmission Electron Microscopy of Liposomes

E3409-24 Standard Test Method for Analysis of Liposomal Drug Formulations Using Multidetector Asymmetrical-Flow Field-Flow Fractionation