Research Professor
Dr. Nathan Bossa is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University. His research focuses on the environmental impact and safety of materials, with expertise in nanomaterials, micro- and nanoplastics, and advanced materials. Dr. Bossa leads the INFRAMES Project (International Network For Researching, Advancing, and Assessing Materials for Environmental Sustainability), which fosters global collaboration on sustainable materials research. His current work brings innovation to public sector engineering challenges, particularly in water treatment and public infrastructure monitoring. He also studies particle release throughout product life cycles and assesses the associated environmental and human health risks. Driven by a commitment to environmental sustainability, Dr. Bossa’s work bridges cutting-edge materials science with real-world applications to advance safer, more sustainable product and public infrastructure systems.
Appointments and Affiliations
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
Contact Information
- Email Address: nathan.bossa@duke.edu
- Websites:
Education
- Aix Marseille University and INERIS , Marseille PHd, 2015
- Aix Marseille University , Avignon MESC 06/2011
- University of Avignon , Avignon BCE 06/2009
Research Interests
- Environmental impact and safety of materials
- Nanomaterials, micro- and nanoplastics, and advanced materials
- Sustainable materials research
- Particle release across product life cycles and associated environmental/human health risks
- Impact of materials in processes
Representative Publications
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3gMSnsUAAAAJ&hl=fr
Regulatory challenges and Risk Assessment of graphene-enabled products: Insights for safe commercialisation in Europe, B Suarez-Merino, V Adam, S Gressler, F Part, N Bossa, M Pelin, M Carlin, ..., 2D Materials, 1 2025
Indoor paint life cycle particle release: Safer-by-design products and the importance of choosing the right formula, N Bossa, C Delpivo, JM Sipe, L Gao, V Pomar, GS Miralles, AS Fonseca, ... Science of The Total Environment 946, 174155, 2 2024
Leveraging nanoparticle environmental health and safety research in the study of micro-and nano-plastics, M Auffan, GV Lowry, JD Amos, N Bossa, MR Wiesner, NanoImpact 36, 100534, 2 2024
Everything falls apart: How solids degrade and release nanomaterials, composite fragments, and microplastics, W Wohlleben, N Bossa, DM Mitrano, K Scott, NanoImpact 34, 100510, 15 2024
Quantifying mechanical abrasion of AgNP nanocomposites: influence of AgNP content on abrasion products and rate of microplastic production, JM Sipe, W Berger, N Bossa, M Chernick, KCK Scott, A Kennedy, ..., Environmental Science: Nano 11 (7), 2968-2977- 1 2024
The role of FAIR nanosafety data and nanoinformatics in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals: The NanoCommons experience, BA Serrano, LC Gheorghe, TE Exner, S Resch, C Wolf, M Himly, A Falk, ..., RSC Sustainability 2 (5), 1378-1399, 9 2024
Metadata stewardship in nanosafety research: learning from the past, preparing for an “on-the-fly” FAIR future, TE Exner, AG Papadiamantis, G Melagraki, JD Amos, N Bossa, GP Gakis, ..., Frontiers in Physics 11, 1233879, 10 2023
Metadata stewardship in nanosafety research: learning from the past, preparing for an “on-the-fly” FAIR future, J Hooyberghs, S Herres-Pawlis, TE Exner, I Lynch, TE Exner, ... 2023
Reproducibility of methods required to identify and characterize nanoforms of substances
RK Cross, N Bossa, B Stolpe, F Loosli, NM Sahlgren, PA Clausen, ..., NanoImpact 27, 100410, 10 2022
Correlating mechanical abrasion with power input
K Scott, M Wiesner, J Sipe, N Bossa, NIST Special Publication 1200, 30, 4 2022
From bottle to microplastics: Can we estimate how our plastic products are breaking down?
JM Sipe, N Bossa, W Berger, N von Windheim, K Gall, MR Wiesner, Science of The Total Environment 814, 152460, 87 2022