Israel - an active participant in the committee
The international standardization organization ISO, started with the initiative of developing and defining an international standard, for nano materials and technologies that are currently considered one of the most developing fields and markets in the world.
Israel, an active participant in the committee and represented by Dr. Fernando de la Vega from the company "Sima Nanotech" and the chairman of the Association for Nanotechnology - NFM (the association operates as part of the magnet program in the Ministry of Science and Technology under the management of Ilan Peled and aims to make the Israeli chemical industry a leading in the commercialization of nanomaterials and technologies).
23 countries from all over the world are members of the international committee. At the first meeting held recently in London, the committee's area of concern was approved and the establishment of three working groups on the following topics was approved:
Terms and names - led by Canada Measurement and characterization methods - led by Japan; Effects on health, safety and environment - led by the USA.
At the same time, the Israeli Standards Institute established an Israeli "Mirror Committee" whose role is to represent the interests of the State of Israel and which includes representative members from industry and academia, including representatives of companies from the NFM association and Dan Wilensky from "Applied Materials".
Nanotechnology deals with the construction of objects from building blocks in dimensions of nanometers (millionths of a millimeter or billionths of a meter) with special properties, that is - from groups of molecules and even from individual molecules or atoms. Among the predicted applications following the use of nanotechnology: sophisticated nanoelectronic components (which would enable, for example, supercomputers the size of a sugar cube), active, safer and more efficient materials, materials with fantastic strength and other wonderful properties, and possibly a major revolution in industrial production methods. Nanotechnology will have many implications for all areas of life. This field is the basis for the development of any technology in microelectronics, biotechnology and smart materials.
Dr. de la Vega stated that: "International standards are tools for developing markets and as such are significant for industry and academia that work to develop technologies and products in the nano field. The State of Israel has the potential to be a world leader in the field of nano materials and technologies. The key to success is encouraging excellence and cooperation between industry, academia and government bodies. gatherer
The NFM concentrates most of the industrial activity in the field of nano in Israel while successfully combining the academy and the office of the chief scientist. The members of the association develop materials and technologies in the nano field that will affect industry and our daily lives and will be active in the field of international standardization in cooperation with the Standards Institute to improve the status of Israeli industry."
The CEO of the Israeli Standards Institute and the vice president of the global ISO Ziva Patir says that: "The active participation of the State of Israel in the preparation of the standard puts Israel on the same page as the leading countries in the world in terms of technology and enables involvement in all stages of writing the standard and making decisions. There is no doubt that the developing standard for nanotechnology will create a uniform language between academia, industry and investors in the field."
