5th Nanosafe International Conference on Health and Safety issues related to nanomaterials for a socially responsible approach (NANOSAFE 2016)

This volume contains a collection of contributions presented at the 5^th Nanosafe International Conference on Health and Safety issues related to nanomaterials for a socially responsible approach (NANOSAFE 2016) held in Grenoble, France, from 7^th to 10^th November 2016.

Nano objects represent a powerful "enabling technology" leading to revolutionary breakthroughs in many different areas vital for humanity including medicine, energy, environment, etc. and also preserving the rare mineral resources by rendering mater more efficient.

For one of the first time in the science history, risks have been taken into account since the very beginning of the manufactured nanomaterials and Nanosafety is now considered as a specific new scientific area, gaining in importance and maturity each days thanks to our dynamic community spread all over the world.

Following the successful outcome of the four past international conferences on Safe Production and Use of Nanomaterials: Nanosafe 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014, the Platform Nano Safety "PNS" welcomed the attendees to Minatec, Grenoble, for this fifth edition with some of the most famous specialists in the field.

In 2016, the subtitle of the conference had been slightly changed to "Health and Safety Issues Related to Nanomaterials" in order to welcome inboard two new topics: Urban Nanoparticles and some aspect of Nanomedicine, in addition to the usual issues addressed in previous Nanosafe conferences such as Detection and Characterization, Expology, Release from Nano-enabled Products, Safer by Design Nanomaterials and Process, Risk Management, Nanoproducts to waste, Toxicology, Environmental Interactions, Regulation and Standardization and Nano Responsible Development.

Furthermore, three 3 round tables had been organized in order to promote friendly discussions between attendees: Nano-Responsible Development, Urban Particles Mitigation: What is Reasonably Possible, Nanomedecine: Benefice/Risk.

In this 5^th edition, there were more than 350 registered participants from 29 different countries including 170 oral presentations and 91 posters covering the whole Nanosafety issues in 6 main sessions, satellite workshops and round tables.

This fifth edition had been a great success and the Local Organizing Committee want to acknowledge all the attendees for their presence and the quality of their presentations.