2023 12TH SNO CONFERENCE PROGRAM OVERVIEW


Friday, November 10, 2023
9:00 - 12:15
Welcome Conference Organizers
Plenary I

John Bowers (UC-SB): The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in Practice: Applications and Characteristics of Quantum Dots for Displays, Interconnects and Sensors
SNO Award Presentation SNO Award for Lifetime Achievement and Contributions to SNO
Break
Plenary II
Salvatore Monte (Kenrich Petrochemicals): Fifty Years of Entrepreneurship: Functionalizing the Nanomaterial Interface with Heteroatom Titanates and Zirconates
Plenary III
Emerging Investigator Awardee
12:15 - 1:00 pm Lunch (Included in Registration)
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Concurrent Sessions
Session - 1A: Nano for Energy, Infrastructure, and the Environment I
Jinyong Liu, Jinyu Gao (UC-Riverside) New opportunities for nanostructured water treatment catalysts
K. Leslie Gilliard-AbdulAziz (USC) Creating value from CO2 using smart alloy nanocatalysts
Marina Sefen, Mengqiang Zhao, Wen Zhang, Fangzhou Liu (NJIT) Novel MXene-based electrified air filters for enhanced antiviral air filtration performance
Xing Xie (Georgia Tech) Development of nanowire-modified electrode applied in the LEEFT for water disinfection
Geoffrey Bothun, Monika Poonia, Kayla Kurtz,  Vinka Oyanedel-Craver, Lindsay Green-Gavrielidis (Univ of RI) Environmental monitoring and prevention of an algal biofoulant on SERS substrates
Fudong Liu, Shaohua Xie (UCF), Wei Tan (UCF, Nanjing) Single-atom and nanocluster catalysts for efficient environmental application 
Session - 1B: Fate, Transport, and Exposure I
Arturo Keller (UCSB),  Yuanfang Zheng (EMPA), Joris Quik (NIPHE), Antonia Praetorius, Bernd Nowack Predicting environmental concentrations of nanomaterials for exposure assessment
Sarah Swinnerton, UCLA Use of plastic waste in construction bricks: evaluation of the occupational health risks and environmental impacts arising from manufacturing
Connor Krause, Candace Tsai (UCLA) 3D printer Nylon-12 nanoparticle emissions analysis
Taylor Fisher,  Sergi Garcia Segura,
Ashlee Howart (ASU), Francois Perreault (Quebec)
Understanding the stability and antibacterial efficacy of metal organic frameworks (MOF) to inform water treatment technology
Session - 1C: NanoBioeconomy: Agriculture, Energy, Food, and the Allied I
David Britt, Anne Anderson, Astrid Jacobson (Utah State)  Nano-delivery in medicine and agriculture utilizing FDA approved low-cost excipients
Nubia Zuverza-Mena, Jason White, Raja Muthuramalingam, Wade Elmer, Sophia Al-Meshrefawi, Andrea Brunelli, Washington DaSilva, Quan Zeng (CAES) Sustainable nanocarrier formulations to promote plant health
Shirsa Mazumdar, Mohiuddin Quadir, Achintya Bezbaruah (NDSU) Nano-enabled Phosphorous Platform for Plant Nutrient Delivery
Edwin Davidson, Anastasiia Pestereva, Felicity Rizzi, Jorge Pereira, Swadeshmukul Santra (UCF) Effects of sulfur nanoparticles incorporation in a biopolymeric coating of phosphorus fertilizers
Paul Aikpokpodion,
Christian Dimkpa (CAES)
Nitrogen and phosphorus loss mitigation: A case study of nanocellulose application with fertilizer in lettuce cropped soil
3:00 pm - 3:30 am Break
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Concurrent Sessions
Session 2A: Nano for Energy, Infrastructure, and the Environment II
Ines Zucker (Tel Aviv) Multifunctional and selective adsorbents: from nano- to bio- based approaches
Jinyu Gao, Jinyong Liu (UC-Riverside) Preparation and synergy of supported Ru0 and Pd0 for rapid chlorate reduction at pH 7
Sheng Yin, Juan Francisco López,
Jonathan J. Calvillo Solís,  Ahsan Habib, Wen-Yee Lee, Michael S. Wong, Dino Villagrán (UTEP)
Electrochemical degradation of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) with UIO-66 modified boron nitride electrodes
Rouzbeh Tehrani, Kyriakos Atmatzidis (Temple) Leveraging nano-enhanced and biomimetic approaches for water treatment
Gabriel Cerron-Calle, Sergi Garcia-Segura (ASU) Towards sustainable nitrogen recovery: multimetallic nanoenabled electrodes in electrocatalytic nitrate reduction
Fangzhou Liu, Wen Zhang, Mengqiang Zhao, Willma Arias de la (NJIT) Electromagnetically enhanced bioaerosol viral removal using MXene-coated air filters
Session - 2B: Fate, Transport, and Exposure II
Shushan Wu, Kimberly Gray (Northwestern) Sublethal bacterial stress exerted by engineered nanomaterials and effects of environmental conditions
Arturo Jiménez-Chávez, Andrea De Vizcaya-Ruiz, Russell Morales-Rubio, Abraham Fernández, Victor Treviño, Gerardo Garcia-Rivas, Iliana Medina-Ramírez (UC-Irvine) ZnO NPs internalization and interaction contributes to cell stress signaling pathway modifications
Preston Clubb, Cyren Rico, Maximo Reyes, Jessica Linson, Elim Horn (Missouri)  Metabolomics reveals immense changes to daughter plants when exposed to perfluorooctansulfonic acid when previously exposed to nano-ceria
Emma Landskorner, Candace Tsai  (UCLA) Exposures to TiO2 Nanoparticles from Automotive Paints and Ceramic Coatings: A Literature Review
Stacey Louie, Riya Mathew (Houston)  Predicting aggregation rates of titanium dioxide nanoparticles in complex matrices
Session - 2C: NanoBioeconomy: Agriculture, Energy, Food, and the Allied II
Howard Fairbrother (Johns Hopkins), Jason White, Christian Dimpka (CAES), Savannah Phillips; Leslie Sigmon; Shital Vaidya; Corey Thrasher; Diego Gomez-Maldonado; Paul Bartley III; Maria Peresin Developing biopolymers as efficient agrochemical delivery systems
Xavier Martini (Univ of FL)  Use of nanoclay and essential oil for whitefly and Asian citrus psyllid control
Jorge Pereira (UCF), Daniela Negrete (Clemson), Giuliana Gan Giannelli, Edwin Davidson, Javier Rivera-Huertas, Hehe Wang, Swadeshmukul Santra (UCF) Nano-enabled foliar targeted delivery of oxytetracycline for crop protection
Melissa Deinys, Jorge Pereira, Swadeshmukul Santra (UCF) Evaluation of nutrient-based nanoparticles tank mix to mitigate mangrove die-off caused by Pestalotiopsis spp
Debasis Golui, Upinder Gill (NDSU), Robert Brueggeman (WSU), Achintya Bezbaruah (NDSU) Revealing the molecular mechanisms in rice (Oryza sativa) in response to arsenic and nanomaterial stress
5:45 - 7:30 PM: Poster Session and Reception (Included in Registration)
Dinner (Explore LA and have dinner on your own)