Sessions and Chairs

Candace Tsai, UCLA

LCDR Adrienne Eastlake, NIOSH

Exposure to nanomaterials and their aggregates and agglomerates can occur at the workplace and the general environment. During this session, we invite talks that provide a good characterization of the exposure to nanomaterials and encourage the reporting of meta-data helpful for life-cycle and risk-analysis and -management such as sources and release types; information on activities, processes, and protective efforts; and the strategy for choosing exposure metrics.

Mitra Majumdar, FDA

Xing Xie, GaTech

On the 10th anniversary of SNO conference, we are delighted to introduce this special session to highlight the exciting research by emerging investigators working in the diverse fields of sustainable nanotechnology. This session will provide the early-career environmental scientists and engineers a global platform with broader audiences to showcase their outstanding research accomplishments. Topics covered by the speakers will include fundamental research and development at the nanoscale, advances in nanoscience, methods, protocols, and metrology, implications of nanotechnology for Environment, Health, and Safety, applications of nanotechnology for sustainability, and education and outreach of sustainable nanotechnology.

Chairs Achintya Bezbaruah, NDSU

Stetson Rowles III, Ga State U

Globally, many classical and emerging contaminants persist across environmental envelopes with traditional solutions often unable to meet treatment and remediation needs. The use of nanotechnology provides novel and potentially sustainable opportunities to meet these needs. This session is dedicated to the trends in nanotechnology applications in Water, Air, Soil Treatment and Remediation. Case studies and studies on emerging contaminants (e.g., per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, micro- and nano-plastics, pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs, and recalcitrant pollutants) are welcome. Of particular interest are studies focused on emerging harmful microorganisms (e.g., Legionella pneumophila and SARS-CoV-2). Socio-economic studies (including entrepreneurial efforts) related to nanotechnology adaptation and adoption are also welcome.

Deb Newberry
Newberry Technology Associates

SNO Conference educational session focuses on diverse nanotechnology education programs and courses. This focus on this focus and welcomed content includes innovative or multi-disciplinary content, research, outreach experiences and experiments for students and educators. Content can include applications for many grade levels form. Information can be applicable to multiple grade levels from high school lever to graduate level. We would love to hear about what you are doing to let folks know about and understand nanotechnology.

Mariya Khodakovskaya, UALR

Cristina Sabliov, LSU

The study of nanoparticle-plant interaction is a new, emerging area of modern Nanobiotechnology. The applications of nanomaterials in plant agriculture are widespread and range from creation of new sensors for plants to development of new technologies for nucleic acid delivery to plant cells, disease/stress suppression, and regulation of crop productivity. We specifically invite abstracts on the topics related to new applications of man-made and naturally derived nanoparticles for the food industry and plant agriculture, mechanisms of observed biological effects of nanomaterials in planta, and risk assessment of nanotechnologies suggested for plant agriculture. Our symposium will highlight new developments in plant nanotechnology and the safety of plant derived agricultural products exposed to nano-sized materials.

Barbara Karn, SNO

This session will focus on various aspects of safe, responsible, and sustainable development and deployment of nano and advanced materials. Areas to be addressed include the research needed to develop safer and more sustainable advanced materials; methods to manufacture those materials; and the application of nano and advanced materials in the creation of new and or improved commercial and consumer products. Principles of Green Chemistry, Safer-by-Design, and Sustainability that can be applied to the full life cycle of nanomaterials will be explored.

Onur Apul, UMaine

Adeyemi Adeleye, UCI

Navid Saleh, UTAustin

The session invites abstracts on research that explores topics relevant to the fate and transport of natural, incidental, and engineered nanoparticles in natural and built environments. Topics covered will extend from molecular-level aspects of nanoscale investigations, such as nanoparticle-surface interactions, nanoparticle transformations, nano-bio interactions, and unique nanoscale properties, to system-level analyses. The expectation of this session is sharing the state-of-the-art, novel, and mechanistic approaches to answer questions about nanomaterial fate and transport. Studies can include laboratory-scale and pilot-scale research, or modeling efforts.

Wunmi Sadik, NJIT

Leanne Gilbertson,
University of Pittsburgh

Robert Hurt, Brown University

Geoff Bothun, URI

Tian Xia, UCLA

This session will discuss development of nanomedicines and their pharmaceutical and medical applications with a focus on safe implementation of these materials into the clinic. Areas to be addressed include the research needed to develop safer nanomedicines; methods to assess safety of nanomaterials used in pharmaceutical and medical applications; clinical and pre-clinical assessments of nanomedicine efficacy and safety.

Achintya Bezbaruah, NDSU