| Saturday, November 9, 2024 |
| 8:30-10:15 AM: Awards and Plenaries |
| Announcements |
Conference Organizers |
| Student Poster Awards |
Illya Medina Velo (Houston Christian), Cyren Rico (Missouri State) |
| 8:45-9:30 |
Plenary IV: Reginald Rogers (U Missouri) |
Responsible Development of Nanotechnology for Educating the Next Generation of Scientists and Engineers |
| 9:30-10:15 |
Plenary V: Robert Hurt (Brown) |
Enabling Nanotechnology Development through Research on Stability, Scaling, and Safety |
| 10:15-10:30 AM Break |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM Concurrent Sessions |
| 3A Tribute to Robert Hurt I |
| Chairs: Geoff Bothun (U Rhode Island), Barbara Karn (SNO) |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Deisy Cristina Carvalho Fernandes (U Utah) |
Advanced Control of Molecular Intercalant Release in Graphene |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Onur Apul (U Maine) |
Disruption of Conjugated π-Electron System of Graphene Oxides Diminish their Microwave Reactivity |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Zachary Saleeba (Brown) |
Novel graphene-based passive sampler for PFAS |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Francois Perreault (Université du Québec à Montréal) |
Antimicrobial mechanisms of graphene oxide nanomaterials |
| 3B NanoPolymers I |
| Chair: Howard Fairbrother (Johns Hopkins) |
| 10:30-10:55 |
Shirsa Mazumdar (North Dakota State) |
Hyperbranched Polymer-Chitosan Coated Nano Rock Phosphate Fertilizers for Enhanced Phosphorus Use Efficiency |
| 10:55-11:20 |
Pratyusha Ghosh (North Dakota State) |
Enhancing Zein Nanoparticle Stability via Steric and Electrostatic Modifications for Improved Cargo Delivery Application |
| 11:20-11:45 |
Stacey M. Louie (U Houston) |
Evaluating Chemical Transfer from PLGA Nanocarriers in Gastrointestinal Media |
| 11:45-12:05 |
Mariya Khodakovskaya (U Arkansas) |
From Plants to Plants: Cellulose Nanocrystals as Sustainable and Safe Nanocarrier for Direct Delivery of DNA to Plant Cells |
| 12:05-12:30 |
Howard Fairbrother (Johns Hopkins) |
Controlling the release of nutrients and pesticides from polysaccharide nanomaterials using hydrophobic shells |
| 3C NanoMedicine |
| Chairs: Daniel Roxbury (URI), Irene Andreu (URI) |
| 10:30-10:50 |
Cecilia Ezeanya (U Central Florida) |
Optimization of Polyphenol - Polymeric Nanoparticles for Enhanced Encapsulation and Delivery of Oxytetracycline-Divalent Cation Complexes against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus |
| 10:50-11:10 |
Aminah Amjad (U Maryland) |
Bifunctional NaYF4:Gd3+,Yb3+,Er3+ @NaYF4 Core–Shell Upconverting Nanoparticles for X-ray Imaging and Optical Luminescence Imaging |
| 11:10-11:30 |
Mohamed Fawzi Kabil (U Rhode Island) |
Tunable clustering of Magnetic Nanoparticles by Utilizing Poly(amino acid) Corrals for Improved r2 Relaxation |
| 11:30-11:50 |
Mohiuddin Quadir (North Dakota State) |
Enzyme-sensitive Nanoparticles - Mimicking Natural Mechanism of Histone Proteins |
| 11:50-12:10 |
Irene Andreu (U Rhode Island) |
Wielding magnetic nanoparticles against cancer and infectious diseases |
| 12:10-12:30 |
Daniel Roxbury (U Rhode Island) |
Biosensing with Fluorescent Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes |
| 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch (Included in Registration) |
| 1:30 -3:30 PM Concurrent Sessions |
| 4A Tribute to Robert Hurt II |
| Chairs: Geoff Bothun (U Rhode Island), Barbara Karn (SNO) |
| 1:30-2:00 |
Arijit Bose (U Rhode Island) |
Quantifying the Adhesion of Marine Cyanobacteria with Polystyrene and Polymethyl methacrylate Microparticles Using Atomic Force Microscopy |
| 2:00-2:30 |
Po-Yen Chen (U Maryland) |
Machine Intelligence-Accelerated Discovery of All-Natural Plastic Substitutes for Sustainable Future |
| 2:30-3:00 |
Zhongying Wang (SUSTech-China) |
Environmental Applications and Transformation of Two-Dimensional Molybdenum Disulfide Nanomaterials |
| 3:00-3:30 |
Anubhav Tripathi (Brown) |
Massive Electrical Conductivity Enhancement of Multilayer Graphene/Polystyrene Composites Using a Nonconductive Filler |
| 4B NanoPolymers II |
| Chair: Mohi Quadir (North Dakota State) |
| 1:30-1:55 |
Huiyuan Guo (Binghamton) |
A dual-functional nanocellulose-based plasmonic membrane for both detection and removal of organic contaminants |
| 1:55-2:20 |
Zeev Rosenzweig (U Maryland) |
Spectroscopic Studies of the Interactions between Polymer-Coated and Polymer Nanoparticles and Phospholipid Vesicles |
| 2:20-2:45 |
Wei Li (Texas Tech) |
Development of Photopatternable Colorimetric Polymer Nanofilms for Temperature and Humidity Sensing |
| 2:45-3:10 |
Zidan Yang (Brown) |
Enhancing personal protective equipment with ultrathin stretchable graphene-based coatings |
| 3:10-3:35 |
Wenjie Xia (Iowa State) |
Multiscale Modeling of Nanoconfinement and Interfaces in Functional Nano-Polymers |
| 4C NanoSustainability |
| Chairs: Xing Xie (Georgia Tech), Adeyemi Adeleye (Columbia) |
| 1:30-1:55 |
Sara Mason (Brookhaven NL) |
Computational Framework for Unlocking Aqueous Transformations of Nanomaterials |
| 1:55-2:20 |
Monika Mortimer (Nat Inst of Chem Phys and Biophys-Estonia) |
Biotests in guiding the design of functional and safe nanocomposites: a case study of metal phenolic networks for environmental remediation |
| 2:20-2:45 |
Jiahui Hu (NJIT) |
Nanomaterials for interfacial heating membrane distillation: Advancing sustainable desalination |
| 2:45-3:10 |
Pabel Cervantes-Aviles (Tecnológico de Monterrey) |
Synthesis of nano-hydroxyapatite from maize lime-cooking wastewater with potential biomedical applications |
| 3:10-3:35 |
Xing Xie (Georgia Tech) |
Effective Electrophysical Antimicrobial Surfaces Based on Electric Field Treatment with Microscale Interdigitated Electrodes |
| 3:30 - 3:45 PM Break |
| 3:45-5:30 PM Invited Talk, SNO Award, Plenary |
| 3:45-4:30 |
Invited Talk: Sara Mason (Brookhaven NL) |
Brookhaven National Laboratory Center for Functional Nanomaterials |
| 3:30-3:40 |
SNO Award Presentation |
SNO Life-time Achievement Award |
| 4:40-5:30 |
Plenary VI: SNO Life-time Achievement Awardee |
The Journey of a Nano Rare Earth Oxide: From Metallurgy to Medicine |
| 6:30-9:00 PM SNO Gala Dinner (Included in Registration), Awards, NanoPitch, Town Hall |