'Advanced Materials': Terminology and relevance to nanomaterials

These short questions are intended to capture the relevance, if any, of 'Advanced Materials' within your commercial work. All responses, including negative, are important as NIA would like to establish the extent of industrial recognition of the term 'Advanced Materials'. All answers are treated within complete confidence and your contact details will only be used to inform you of survey outcomes.

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* 1. Name

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* 2. Organisaton

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* 3. Organisation type

Commercial nanomaterials producer or innovator

Commercial nanomaterials user

Professional service provider within the nanomaterials community

Other (please specify)

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* 4. Email address (if you wish survey results and topic follow up)

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* 5. Is the term ‘advanced material’ used within your organisation's strategy, positioning or branding?

Yes

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* 6. If yes, what value does the term bring to your organsiation? E.g. market positioning

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* 7. How would you define an ‘advanced material’ in general?

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* 8. Do you consider your company to work with ‘advanced materials’?

Yes

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* 9. If yes, what characteristics/performance relevant to your field makes them ‘advanced’?

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* 10. Do these substances and compositions fit within current regulatory frameworks for substances and applications relevant to you?

Yes

Please comment on the suitability (or not) of current regulatory frameworks for your materials that you would consider 'advanced', in terms of flexibility of frameworks for more complex materials and/or their accurate reflection of materials safety.