Call for papers: Nano-enviornment session at AIChE

The deadline is approaching for the fall AIChE Annual meeting November 7-12, 2010, Salt Palace Convention Center Salt Lake City, UT.

AEESP members may find the following session particularly interesting.

Environmental Implications of Nanomaterials

Chair: Leslie Shor, Assistant Professor of Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Connecticut

Co-Chair: Cynthia Ekstein, NSF program director for Environmental Implications of Emerging Technologies

Session Description:

Engineered nano-scale materials have the potential to transform medical diagnostics, high-performance materials, and to dramatically increase the performance and energy efficiency of sensors, consumer electronics, and energy conversion and storage devices. However, before the full potential of nanotechnology can be realized, potential adverse interactions between novel materials and the natural environment must be better understood. The goal of this session is to highlight the latest research on the interactions of nanomaterials and the natural environment. Emphasis will be placed on engineered materials with a clear potential to reach the environment in large quantities, such as nano-Au, nano-Fe, and TiO2, or on materials with demonstrated toxicity including quantum dots, carbon nanotubes, and fullerenes. Specific areas of research may include (i) nanomaterial substance flow accounting; (ii) environmental fate and transport nanomaterials, including approaches to measure nanomaterials in natural systems, and environmental transformations of nanomaterials; and (iii) toxicity of nanomaterials to environmentally-relevant test organisms, including nanomaterial bioavailability, and biological uptake, distribution, transformation, accumulation, and trophic transfer.

Submission Information:

New Submissions may be entered until Monday, May 3, 2010 at 11:59pm (EST) at:

http://aiche.confex.com/aiche/2010/cfp.cgi

Select Group 09: Environmental Division

Select Session 09001: Environmental Implications of Nanomaterials

Please contact Leslie Shor with any questions. Leslie.shor@uconn.edu.