2012 PROGRAM
Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization Conference
| FINAL PROGRAM |
| ABSTRACTS |
| Sunday, November 4, 2012 | ||||||
| Registration (8:30-10:00) | ||||||
| 10:00 | Welcome: SNO Vision, mission, context, why, survey, etc. | Wunmi Sadik, Barbara Karn | ||||
| 10:30 | Plenary I: Nanotechnology Susustainability and Safe Implementation | Andre Nel | ||||
| 11:15 | Plenary II: Global Issues for Sustainable Nanotechnology |
Mike Roco | ||||
| Lunch (12:00-13:00) | ||||||
| Concurrent Session 1a: Green Synthesis | ||||||
| 13:00 | Greener Pathways to Nanomaterials and Their Sustainable Applications | Rajender S. Varma | ||||
| 13:30 | Green Synthesis of Nanomaterials: A Necessity for Sustainability | Barbara Karn | ||||
| 13:50 | Synthesis and Processing of Metallic Nanomaterials using CO2 eXpanded Liquids as a Green Solvent Media |
Christopher L. Kitchens | ||||
| 14:10 | Rational Design of Carbon Nanotube Dispersions and Toxicity Elimination | Jean-Claude J. Bonzongo | ||||
| 14:30 | A novel method for bacteria inactivation using Engineered Water Nanostructures | Georgios Pyrgiotakis | ||||
| 14:50 | Gate-to-Gate Life Cycle Assessment of Gold Nanoparticle Synthesis Process | Paramjeet Pati | ||||
| 15:10 | Nanoarchitectonic Approaches to Design Green Polymers to Enhance Effectiveness of Nanoparticles in Groundwater Remediation | Achintya Bezbaruah | ||||
| 15:30 | Safe by design: Demonstrating the efficiency of a safer formulation concept for flame-generated engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) | Phil Demokritou | ||||
| Break (15:50-16:10) | ||||||
| 16:10 | Ceria Nanoparticles: Planned and Unplanned Preparation, Delivery, and Environmental Impacts on Particle Properties | Donald R. Baer | ||||
| 16:30 | Fate of Nanomaterials in Municipal Solid Waste Landfills | Stephanie C. Bolyard | ||||
| 16:50 | Coherent vibrational and electronic spectroscopy of engineered and natural nanoparticles | Franz M. Geiger | ||||
| Concurrent Session 1b: Environmental Applications | ||||||
| 13:00 | Nanomaterials and the Environment: Scientific Issues for Chemists and Materials Scientists | Robert J. Hamers | ||||
| 13:30 | Greener Magnetic nano-Adsorbents for Water Treatment | Arturo A. Keller | ||||
| 13:50 | Graphene-Based Environmental Barriers | Fei Guo | ||||
| 14:10 | Sustainable technologies to reduce and safely degrade pollutants | Wunmi Sadik | ||||
| 14:30 | Oil-Water Separation by Wrap-and-Pull Using Superparamagnetic Carbon Nanotubes | Chongzheng Na | ||||
| 14:50 | Adherence of Silver Nanoparticles to Ceramic Water Filters: the Value of Raman Spectroscopy | Anne Mikelonis | ||||
| 15:10 | Effect of manufacturing variables and influent water conditions on bacterial reduction effectiveness of point-of-use ceramic water filters | Hongyin Zhang | ||||
| 15:30 | Synergistic Effects between Solar Light-activated NF-TiO2 and Various Oxidants for the Destruction of Atrazine and Amitrole in Water | Joel Anderson | ||||
| Break (15:50-16:10) | ||||||
| 16:10 | Antimicrobial Properties of Fullerene Derivatives as a Function of Structure and Aggregation State | Samuel Snow | ||||
| 16:30 | Numerical electrokinetic method to determine surface coating thickness on nanoparticles improves prediction of transport behavior | Stacey M. Louie | ||||
| 16:50 | The interaction of silver and cerium oxide nanoparticles with algae, daphnia and soft water OECD media and fulvic acid. | R. C. Merrifield | ||||
| Concurrent Session 1c: Sustainable Nano Curriculum & Education | ||||||
| 13:00 | The Interdisciplinary nature of Nanoscience and Technology Education | Sudipta Seal | ||||
| 13:30 | Teaching systems thinking for sustainable nanotechnology | Callie Babbitt | ||||
| 13:50 | Direct to Discovery (D2D): An Innovative Digital Approach to Extending University-based Nanoscience into K-12 Classrooms in the US and Abroad | W. Jud Ready | ||||
| 14:10 | Teaching Ethics through Role Playing in a Nanotechnology Class for First Year College Students | Kurt Winkelmann | ||||
| 14:30 | Making use of the educational potential of nanoscale energy production and conservation | George Lisensky | ||||
| 14:50 | Opportunities and Challenges toward Education at the Nanoscale | James Murday | ||||
| 15:10 | Use of Sustainable Nanotechnology Examples in the College Classroom: A Rich Educational Opportunity | Deb Newberry | ||||
| Break (15:50-16:10) | ||||||
| 16:10 | NCPI 2.0: Re-inventing the Nanotechnology Consumer Products Inventory through a unique University/NGO Partnership | Matt Hull | ||||
| 16:30 | "Yes, I See." - Bringing Nanotechnology Education to Undergraduate Classrooms | Lei Zhai | ||||
| 16:50 | Asian Efforts Towards Sustainable Development of Nanotechnology | Lerwen Liu | ||||
| Reception/cash bar (18:00-19:00) | ||||||
| Dinner and Business Meeting (19:00) | ||||||
| Monday, November 5, 2012 | ||
| 8:30 | Plenary III: Industry and Sustainable Nanotechnology | Celia Merzbacher |
| 9:15 | Plenary IV: Role of Sustainable Nanotechnology in Economic Development |
Thomas Guevara |
| Break (10:00-10:20) | ||
| Concurrent Session 2a: Risk Assessment & Industry | ||
| 10:20 | Critical issues in Risk Assessment of Engineered Nanomaterials: The way towards a sustainable nanotechnology industry | Philip Demokritou |
| 10:50 | Exposure assessment and health outcomes attributable to the nano fraction of familiar polydisperse aerosols | Joseph Brain |
| 11:10 | Responses to Pulmonary Exposure to Carbon Nanotubes in NIOSH Animal Studies | Vincent Castranova |
| 11:30 | Nanocomposite materials: Industrial applications and corresponding models of nanofiller release. | Wendel Wohlleben |
| 11:50 | Risk Assessment for Nanoparticles during Lithium-ion Battery Pre-recycling Processes | Xue Wang |
| 12:10 | ||
| Concurrent Session 2b: Medical Applications | ||
| 10:20 | Medical applications | Dorothy Farrell |
| 10:50 | ||
| 11:10 | Multifunctional plasmonic nanoparticles for biomedical applications | Georgios A. Sotiriou |
| 11:30 | Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles as Complex Bioactive Delivery Vehicles | Kathleen Eggleson |
| 11:50 | RGD Modified Ferritin Nanocages for Imaging and Drug Delivery | Jin Xie |
| 12:10 | Routes of Cellular Uptake of Nano-sized Materials Depend on Compositions of Cell-Penetrating Peptides | Yue-Wern Huang |
| Concurrent Session 2c: Legal Aspects/Policy Considerations | ||
| 10:20 | Legal Aspects/Policy Considerations | Lynn L. Bergeson |
| 10:50 | Guiding emerging technologies: Applying principles of sustainability and anticipatory governance | Rider Foley |
| 11:10 | Soft Law and Nanotechnology: A Functional Perspective | Timothy F. Malloy |
| 11:30 | Regulating nano-containing products: identifying gaps in characterizing risks | Therese Garvey |
| 11:50 | Bridging the Gap Between the Nanotechnology Consumer Products Inventory and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) | Sean McGinnis |
| 12:10 | MEGA-Nano Forums and Optimal Regulation for the Safe Development of Nanotechnology | Richard Reibstein |
| Lunch (12:30-13:30) | ||
| Concurrent Session 3a: Toxicology of Nanomaterials | ||
| 13:30 | The Value of Nanotoxicity Testing to Sustainability | Bellina Veronesi |
| 14:00 | A novel method for measuring effective density of nano-agglomerates in liquid suspensions: Implications for in vitro dosimetry and nanotoxicology | Joel Cohen |
| 14:20 | Nanoparticle binding to homogenous and heterogenous model cell membranes | Aihong Xi |
| 14:40 | Interaction of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes with Model Cell Membranes | Kai Loon Chen |
| 15:00 | The chemistry of sustainable nanotechnology: Impacts of nanomaterial chemistry on the chronic environmental impacts on aquatic species using acute genomic and behavioral information | Devrah Arndt |
| 15:20 | Influence of Protein Corona on Nanosilver Toxicity in Epithelial and Endothelial Cells | Jonathan Shannahan |
| Break (15:40-16:00) | ||
| 16:00 | Inhibition of Lung Surfactant by Nanoparticles ? More Than Cytotoxicity? | Yi Y. Zuo |
| 16:20 | Nanoscale Silver Mediated DNA Damage Under Cell-Free Conditions | Bryant C. Nelson |
| 16:40 | The Effect of Nanoparticle Size, Shape, Coating and Composition on Skin Toxicity. | Nancy A. Monteiro-Riviere |
| 17:00 | Wound healing of human cells from the cornea is impacted by nanoparticles | Enhua H. Zhou |
| Concurrent Session 3b: Occupational Health and Safety, Occupational Hygiene | ||
| 13:30 | Sustainable Occupational Health and Safety for the Nanotechnology Industry | Thomas M. Peters |
| 14:00 | Incorporating Life Cycle Thinking into Risk Assessment for Nanoscale Materials: Case Study of Nanocellulose | Jo Anne Shatkin |
| 14:20 | Occupational Health & Sustainability; OEHS as a Tool for Innovation | Donald Ewert |
| 14:40 | Occupational Health & Safety | Candace Tsai |
| 15:00 | Development and Field Evaluation of the Thermophoretic Personal Sampler (TPS) | Gary Casuccio |
| 15:20 | Verification of the DiSCmini Personal Monitor for Exposure to Nanoparticles in the Workplace | Jessica Mills |
| Break (15:40-16:00) | ||
| 16:00 | Methods to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Nanoparticle Control Technologies | Michael Ellenbecker |
| 16:20 | Sustainability Standard Metrics for Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies: State of Play | Jo Anne Shatkin |
| 16:40 | Unintentional exposure to nanoparticles via an industrial silicon processing accident | Orion Wenrich |
| 17:00 | ||
| Concurrent Session 3c: Green Energy | ||
| 13:30 | Nanotechnology for Sustainable Energy | Ram B. Gupta |
| 14:00 | Stoichiometric control of light absorption by copper-sulfide-based nanoparticles | Katherine E. Plass |
| 14:20 | Solar-Light Induced Plasmonic Energy Transfer from Metal to Semiconductor | Nianqiang (Nick) Wu |
| 14:40 | Probing the diffusion of colloidal nanoparticles to reveal interactions with complex environments | Stephan Link |
| 15:00 | Evaluation of properties and performance of nanoscopic materials in vanadium boride-air batteries | Jessica Stuart |
| 15:20 | Nanomaterials in Organic Photovoltaics | Annick Anctil |
| Break (15:40-16:00) | ||
| 16:00 | Towards Solar Fuel Generation with a Carbon Nitride Photocatalyst | Timothy L. Shelton |
| 16:20 | Sustainable Energy from Polymer Nanocomposites | Mark Dadmun |
| 16:40 | Microwave Assisted Synthesis of Germanium Nanoparticles for Photovoltaic Applications | Elayaraja Muthuswamy |
| 17:00 | Nanoscale perspectives on plastic electronic materials and devices | Zhongjian Hu |
| Posters (17:30-19:30) | ||
| Tuesday, November 6, 2012 | ||
| 8:30 | Plenary V: Societal and policy considerations | David Guston |
| 9:15 | Plenany VI: Sustainability Analysis for Products and Processes | Subhas Sikdar |
| Break (10:00-10:20) | ||
| Concurrent Session 4a: Standards/ Characterization | ||
| 10:20 | Sustainable nanotechnology and the UN Millennium Goals | Clayton Teague |
| 10:50 | Transmission electron microscopy for primary particle size distributions of nanomaterials: gold nanoparticle case study. | Angela Hight-Walker |
| 11:10 | Characterization of Nanomaterials Relevant to Biomolecular Interactions | Jim E. Riviere |
| 11:30 | Sustainable Cellulose Nanomaterials Standards Development | World Nieh |
| 11:50 | Development of Nanoscale Reference Materials at NIST: Challenges and Considerations for Sustainable Nanotechnology | Vincent A. Hackley |
| 12:10 | Sizing Nanoparticles for a SustainableFuture – Status, Limitations and Opportunities | Scott C. Brown |
| Concurrent Session 4b: Advanced Manufacturing | ||
| 10:20 | Nanomaterials-based Sustainable Nanomanufacturing for Electronics, Energy and Biotechnology Applications | Ahmed Busnaini |
| 10:50 | Sustainability Assessment of Nanocoating Material: A Life Cycle Based Multiscale Approach | Yinlun Huang |
| 11:10 | Simple Benchtop Reactor System for the High-throughput Synthesis of Functionalize Gold Nanoparticles and Nanorods | Samuel E. Lohse |
| 11:30 | Titanium Dioxide Photo-Oxidation Efficiency in Small-Scale Photothermal Waste Degradation Reactors | Christopher N. Bremer |
| 11:50 | Improving the performance of nanocrystal devices through the encapsulation of semiconductor nanocrystals into heteroepitaxial inorganic matrices. | Mikhail Zamkov |
| 12:10 | Life Cycle Issues for Scalable Nanomanufacturing of CNT-enabled products | Jackie Issacs |
| Concurrent Session 4c: NIEHS Grantees | ||
| 10:20 | Understanding Mast Cell Activation in the Development of Safe Nanotechnologies | Jared Brown |
| 10:50 | Relationship between protein adsorption and nanotoxicity | Wenwan Zhong |
| 11:10 | Paper Based Disposable Testing Kits for in vitro Genotoxicity Assay upon Nanomaterial Exposure | Chen-Zhong Li |
| 11:30 | Distribution of C60 and Nanosilver in Rats and Mice | Susan Sumner |
| 11:50 | Carbon Nanotube, Nanosilver and Nanoclay Protein Corona Composition in Cell Culture Media | Frank A. Witzmann |
| 12:10 | Tying distinct nanoparticle properties to intracellular fate and response in alveolar epithelial cells | Galya Orr |
| Lunch (12:30-13:30) | ||
| Concurrent Session 5a: Sensors/ instruments/monitoring | ||
| 13:30 | Addressing the Challenges of Rapid & Accurate Characterization of Engineered Nanomaterials | Wunmi Sadik |
| 14:00 | Sensing with cation exchange in nanocrystals and nanoclusters | Wenwan Zhong |
| 14:20 | Detection of Heavy Metals by Quantum Dot Based Fluorescent Biosensor Via Nanometal Surface Energy Transfer | Nianqiang (Nick) Wu |
| 14:40 | Monitoring Nanoparticle Interactions at Biological Interfaces with Nonlinear Optics | Stephanie Walter |
| 15:00 | Attachment of modularly functionalized TiO2 nanoparticles to model environmental surfaces | Joel A. Pedersen |
| 15:20 | ||
| Concurrent Session 5b: Food/ Agriculture | ||
| 13:30 | Nanoscale science and engineering in agriculture and food systems: At a Crossroads | Norman R. Scott |
| 14:00 | Synchrotron confirmation of the uptake and translocation of TiO2 nanoparticles in cucumber plants | Alia Servin |
| 14:20 | Nanoparticle Electrospray Facilitates the Break of Coat-Imposed Seed Dormancy | Da-Ren Chen |
| 14:40 | Interactive Effects of Nano-TiO2 and Soil Water on Soil Microbial Communities | Patricia Holden |
| 15:00 | The impact of CeO2 nanoparticles on rice roots: the relationship between enzyme activity, cell membrane damage and lipid content | Cyren M. Rico |
| 15:20 | Nanomaterial Interactions with Agricultural Crop Species | Jason C. White |
| Concurrent Session 5c: Fate, Transport, Transformation | ||
| 13:30 | Fate and behaviour of nanoparticles in the aquatic and terrestrial environment | J. R. Lead |
| 14:00 | Challenges in studying the fate and effects of nanoparticles in aquatic systems | Valery E. Forbes |
| 14:20 | When nanoparticles enters the house of microbes – Importance of biofilms in fate and transport of nanomaterials | Alan W. Decho |
| 14:40 | Long term stability and metal leaching in natural water systems of commercial single wall carbon nanotubes | Adeyemi Adeleye |
| 15:00 | Fate of Engineered Nanomaterials in Constructed Wetland Treatment Systems | Fariya Sharif |
| 15:20 | Mobility of nanomaterials in the environment during their life cycle | Armand Masion |
| 15:40 | Closing Session--SNO | |