Pacifichem 2010: Redox Processes on Nanoparticles, Nanomaterials, and Nanostructured Systems in the Environment

 Pacifichem 2010: www.pacifichem.org

Symposium Title: "Redox Processes on Nanoparticles, Nanomaterials, and Nanostructured Systems in the Environment".

Abstracts are Due-April 5-2010. Please submit your abstract through:www.pacifichem.org/abstracts

“Redox processes on nanomaterial surfaces in the environment” is an exciting field of rapidly growing interest among scientific, engineering, and regulatory communities around the globe. Nanomaterials have the potential to help make a cleaner environment, develop alternative/renewable energy sources, and provide sustainable infrastructure. On the other hand, some nanomaterials may have unintended effects and implications for human health and the environment. Understanding the molecular and mechanistic interactions of nanomaterial surfaces is a critical step towards exploration of novel applications as well as delineating their potential for unintended, detrimental impacts. Among these interactions, oxidation and reduction at nanomaterial surfaces will impact their reactivity, fate, transport, and toxicity. Consequently, new advances in this field generate great interest among the scientific and engineering communities. 

In this symposium we welcome papers for oral or poster presentations dealing with the following topics: (i) Emerging remediation and sensing technologies employing nanomaterials, (ii) Redox conversion of  pollutants on nanoparticulate catalyst and photocatalysts, (iii) Properties and reactivities of metal and metal-oxide nanoparticles in various environmental media, (iv) Surface chemical processes, fate, and transport of nanoparticles and nanomaterials in the environment, (v) toxicological effects due to redox properties of the particles (e.g. ROS generation from TiO2 or Fe0) of nanoparticles and nanomaterials, and (vi) Nanotechnology in energy recovery from wastes and wastewaters. 

Organizers:

Prof. Dionysios (Dion) D. Dionysiou, University of Cincinnati, USA

Prof. Wonyong Choi, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea

Prof. Woojin Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), Korea

Prof. Kelvin B. Gregory, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Prof. Gregory V. Lowry, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Professor T. David Waite, The University of New South Wales, Australia

dionysios.d.dionysiou@uc.edu; wchoi@postech.ac.kr;

woojin_lee@kaist.edu; kelvin@cmu.edu; glowry@cmu.edu;

d.waite@unsw.edu.au