2019 SNO CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Friday, November 8, 2019
Time Session/Title Speaker
8:30 Announcements Grassian & Westerhoff
8:45 Plenary IV Nicole Steinmetz
9:30 Plenary V Nirupam Aich
10:15 Break
  3A Water Treatment and Remediation (Chairs: Navid Saleh and Debora Rodrigues) - CATALYSIS FOCUSED
10:30 Hierarchically nanostructured electrodes for enhanced photoelectrocatalytic water treatment: meeting needs of photon delivery and electrically-driven processes. Sergi Garcia-Segura
10:50 Nano-Enabled Hollow Fibers for the Treatment of Nitrate Juliana Levi
11:10 Magnetic MoO3 nanocomposites based on graphene for methylene blue and phenol degradation under visible light Janire Peña-Bahamonde
11:30 The Catalytic Hydrogel Membrane Reactor: Treating Aqueous Contaminants with Hydrogenation Nanocatalysts Kyle Doudrick
11:50 Nano-enabled Microwave Pretreatment of Waste Activated Sludge prior to Anaerobic Digestion Onur Apul
  3B Energy & the Environment I (Chairs: Andrea Hicks and David Fenning)
10:30 Insights of surface strain effects on electrochemical CO2 reduction over Cu thin layers Taewoo Kim
10:50 Life Cycle Impact and Carbon Payback Period of Carbon Nanotube Supported CO2 Capture Technologies Andrea Hicks
11:10 Uncovering the Materials Paradigm at the Nanoscale: The Role of Next Generation Imaging and Characterization Mariana  I. Bertoni
11:30 Application of Two-dimensional MoS2 for Heavy Metal Removal and Recovery Baoxia Mi
11:50 Rapid Kinetics of Fluoride Removal by CeO₂-GO Nanocomposite Umma S. Rashid
  3C Measuring Nanomaterial Exposure & Effects in Environmental Health Research (Chair: Christie Sayes)
10:50 Transient protein interaction with nanoparticle produces persistent conformational changes Kyoungtea Kim
11:15 Nanostructured Membranes to Capture and Detect Metal-oxide Nanoparticles Wunmi Sadki
11:35 Bioinformatic/Computational Approach for Grouping Nanomaterials by Adverse Outcome Following Exposure and the Relationship to Physicochemical Properties Jenny R. Roberts
12:30 Lunch
  4A Water Treatment and Remediation (Chairs: Navid Saleh and Debora Rodrigues)
2:00 Session introduction Navid Saleh and Debora Rodrigues
2:05 Scaling Behavior of Nanophotonics Enhanced Solar Membrane Distillation Francois Perreault
2:30 LEEFT: A nano-enabled technology for water disinfection Xing Xie
3:20 Break
4:10 Two-dimensional materials as anti-corrosion coating for biotic sulfur environment Govind Chilkoor
4:35 Pressure-driven Filtration and Antifouling Performance of Two-Dimensional Nanomaterial Functionalized Membranes Indranil Chowdhury
5:00 Competitive sorption of Cr6+, Co2+ and Ni2+ ions onto Chlorella sorokiniana with manganese-doped magnetic ferrite nanoparticles in simulated wastewater Debora F. Rodrigues
  4B Measuring Nanomaterial Exposure & Effects in Environmental Health Research (Chair: Christie Sayes)R
2:00 Session introduction Christie Sayes
2:05 Cadmium free luminescent quantum dotto minimize the impact of semiconductor quantum dots on living organisms Zeev Rosenzweig
2:30 Evaluating the risk of nanopesticides against radically different chemicals using ChemFate Arturo Keller
3:20 Break
4:10 Mosquito bite prevention through graphene barrier layers Cintia Castilho
4:35 Identifying the Role of Different Oxygen Functional Groups in the Graphene-Mediated Antioxidant Glutathione Oxidation Reaction Yan Wang
5:00 New insights into interactions between environmental microbes and carbonaceous nanomaterials Yaqi You
  4C Nano Impacts and Education (Chairs: Jorge Loyo and Anjali Mulchandani)
2:00 Session introduction Anjali Mulchandani
2:05 REU on Nanotechnology with community college students Jorge Loyo
2:30 NSF National Advanced Technology Education (ATE) Network for Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge (NACK) Osama O. Awadelkarim
3:20 Break
4:10 Nanoblocks: A Playful Education Tool to Teach Nanotechnology and Sorption Concepts Anjali Mulchandani
4:35 Composite nano materials for water treatment applications Mariana Marcos-Hernández
6:00 SNO Gala Dinner (provided) Business Meeting, Awards, NanoPitch