Jekyll2026-05-05T15:54:44+00:00https://nanocommons.github.io/erm-database/feed.xmlERM Identifier DatabaseThis database provides information about materials with an European Registry of Materials (ERM) identifer for which information was disclosed.Nanosafety Data Interface data archives: caLIBRAte, NanoReg II, and GRACIOUS2025-10-12T00:00:00+00:002025-10-12T00:00:00+00:00https://nanocommons.github.io/erm-database/2025/10/12/enanomapper-data-archivesThe Nanosafety Data Interface (screenshot below) has hosted for many years research output for nanosafety research projects, including for the original eNanoMapper project. Most projects use an embargo before data becomes open, but for multiple projects this embargo has passed. As part of that, data archives have been deposited in Zenodo. This has been done for caLIBRAte, NanoReg II, and GRACIOUS. The first uses ERM identifiers, and this data set has now been linked to those nine identifiers: ERM00000074, ERM00000075, ERM00000076, ERM00000077, ERM00000078, ERM00000079, ERM00000080, ERM00000081, and ERM00000082.

]]>FAIR datasets by ASINA with ERM identifiers2025-09-06T00:00:00+00:002025-09-06T00:00:00+00:00https://nanocommons.github.io/erm-database/2025/09/06/asina-fair-datasetsThe ASINA project just published a paper about a “a collection of open FAIR datasets for titanium dioxide coated photocatalytic surfaces”. I described the FAIRification process of many datasets they releases in this Zenodo collection. A fair number of these datasets use the ERM identifiers the project registered earlier. These are now linked to the ERM identifiers in this database. They also make nice additions to the Overview of open datasets released by NanoSafety Cluster projects.

]]>Searching in Europe PMC2025-05-20T00:00:00+00:002025-05-20T00:00:00+00:00https://nanocommons.github.io/erm-database/2025/05/20/searching-in-Europe-PMCEurope PMC is the European mirror of PubMed Central. It has a large collection of full text articles and great search APIs. The human-oriented search API works really well for searching a series of identifiers. Like the ERM identifiers. But typing almost 700 ERM identifiers is not something I like to do often.

So, I created a new Europe PMC Search page listing a few links that allow me to quickly search 100 ERM identifiers:

Now, here too, I did not type them, but I used the GNU/Linux command line utility seq:

seq -f "ERM%08g" -s "%20OR%20" 601 700

BTW, you can also just replace europepmc.org with google.com in those URLs to do the same search in Google.

Unfortunately, these search do not show up as many results as I hoped.

]]>D1.1 HARMLESS database with extensions to handle advanced materials2025-02-03T00:00:00+00:002025-02-03T00:00:00+00:00https://nanocommons.github.io/erm-database/2025/02/03/harmless-d11HARMLESS release in November last year their deliverable D1.1, on the HARMLESS database. In this deliverable 23 ERM identifiers are specified in more detail. These materials have been linked to the deliverable now, and 9 SiO2 materials now have more detail.

]]>Egon WillighagenFinalized indexing the NanoSolveIT PhysChem datasets2024-04-26T00:00:00+00:002024-04-26T00:00:00+00:00https://nanocommons.github.io/erm-database/2024/04/26/nanosolveitThe NanoSolveIT project has released physical properties of nanomaterials studied in the project on Zenodo. Many of these datasets have descriptions that list the materials they are about, including their ERM identifiers.

]]>Egon WillighagenNanoMILE identifiers2024-03-17T00:00:00+00:002024-03-17T00:00:00+00:00https://nanocommons.github.io/erm-database/2024/03/17/nanomileAlmost a year ago, Dieter Maier (Biomax Informatics) and I wrote up a table with mappings between NanoMILE identifiers and ERM identifiers. This weekend I cross checked it with what we have in this database and added the missing identifiers.

]]>RiskGONE WP4 poster2024-01-20T00:00:00+00:002024-01-20T00:00:00+00:00https://nanocommons.github.io/erm-database/2024/01/20/riskgone-posterToday, the first poster with ERM identifiers is added to this database, by the RiskGONE working group 4. The poser mentions eleven ERM identifiers, but also several project deliverables with experimental characterisation of these materials. Deliverables I have to start reading, and see which ERM identifiers are mentioned there.

The poster has these materials:

  • ERM00000062: TiO2
  • ERM00000063: ZnO
  • ERM00000064: TiO2
  • ERM00000065: ZnO
  • ERM00000083: PLGA-AuNPs-WOW
  • ERM00000084: PLGA-AuNPs-NP
  • ERM00000085: AuNPs-1 (15nm)
  • ERM00000086: AuNPs-2 (50nm)
  • ERM00000088: Pl-CuO (CuO 40nm)
  • ERM00000089: WC/Co
  • ERM00000325: MWCNT 3wt%

Of these, ERM00000083, ERM00000084, ERM00000085, and ERM00000086 were not in the database before.

]]>Egon WillighagenSilver nanoforms with ERM identifiers2024-01-20T00:00:00+00:002024-01-20T00:00:00+00:00https://nanocommons.github.io/erm-database/2024/01/20/silver-nanoformsAbout a year ago, Furxhi et al. published an article about six silver nanoforms. Each nanoform was given an ERM identifier, which have now been added to this database. The ontological classification is to be discussed: the current silver nanoparticle concept (npo:NPO_1892) is classified as a metal nanoparticle (npo:NPO_1384) which does not sound right for these nanoforms with non-metal components.

The article published in ACS Applied Nano Materials has good description of the materials, of which part is shown in this screenshot:

]]>Egon WillighagenNew data setup for the ERM Identifier Database2024-01-15T00:00:00+00:002024-01-15T00:00:00+00:00https://nanocommons.github.io/erm-database/2024/01/15/new_data_setup_ontologyThe ERM Identifier Database now uses the 'jekyll-datapage-generator' plugin to store the site data and generate the website. Moreover, the eNanoMapper ontology is now used to identify material classes.

The new data is stored under _data in three directories:

  • enmo, for the eNanoMapper Ontology terms used to identify the ERMs
  • erm, for each individual ERM entry,
  • work, for the publications linked to ERMs

The eNM Ontology page contains a taxonomy of the ERM materials, divided by class:

An additional Content table page allows to browse the data:

Future changes will include more automation steps allowing RDF downloads of the site data.

]]>Javier Millán AcostaMore NanoSolveIT ERM Identifiers2024-01-14T00:00:00+00:002024-01-14T00:00:00+00:00https://nanocommons.github.io/erm-database/2024/01/14/nanosolveit-identifiersThe datasets NanoSolveIT deposited this summer were not all already annotated with their ERM identifiers. This post reports on three more of the deposited datasets.

  • Ce0.9Zr0.1O2: erm:ERM00000399
  • PVP-TiO2: erm:ERM00000414, erm:ERM00000435, erm:ERM00000456
  • ZrO2: erm:ERM00000404, erm:ERM00000425, erm:ERM00000446
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