2D Nanomaterials for Human Health and the Environment

An interdisciplinary workshop on the bio/environmental applications and implications of new sheet-like nanomaterials, and their relation to fundamental material structures and properties

Wednesday, November 6, 2019 – San Diego, California

Preliminary Agenda

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Welcome and Introduction (R. Hurt, Chair)

8:45 Keynote speaker: Mark Hersam, Northwestern University
“Fundamentals and Applications of Solution-Processed 2D Materials”

9:30 Keynote speaker: Baoxia Mi, University of California, Berkeley
“2D Nanomaterial-Enabled Membranes for Water Purification”

10:15 Break

10:30 Keynote speaker: Michael Strano, MIT
“2D Nanomaterials: New Characterization Methods and Biological Applications”

11:15   Keynote speaker: Peter Wick, EMPA, St. Gallen, Switzerland
            “Disentangling the Structure – Activity Relationship of Graphene Related Materials:
            A Health Perspective”

12:00 Lunch

1:30 Keynote speaker: Debora Rodrigues, University of Houston
“Microbial Interactions with 2D Nanomaterials: From Single Cells to Ecosystems”

2:15 Poster session

3:15 Working group meetings. Group topical areas: 2D materials science, environmental applications, health applications, implications

4:30 Discussion leaders’ report to the workshop

5:00 Close