The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is organizing a special session on Wednesday afternoon as a part of the IEEE-NANO'2002 conference.  Conference registration will enable you to participate in this special session.  Dinner in the evening is planned, and sign-up sheet will be posted on the conference bulletin board.  If there are 40 to 50 people going to dinner, we may have to have it at the hotel at $50 per person.  If there is a smaller group of people, we may go to a nearby restaurant and each pays for his/her own.

 

On Thursday, there is an EPA grantee's workshop.  You are welcomed to stay on after the IEEE-NANO'2002 conference to attend this workshop.

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U.S. EPA National Center for Environmental Research

 

EPA Nanotechnology Grantees Workshop

 

NANOTECHNOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT: APPLICATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS

 

Hilton (IEEE Meeting Venue)

Crystal City, VA

August 28-29, 2002

 

DRAFT AGENDA (May, 2002)

 

Wednesday, August 28, 2002

 

1:00 – 1:30            Registration

 

1:30 – 2:00            Welcome and Introduction            

                                                Barbara Karn, National Center for Environmental Research, EPA

                                                            Purpose of the workshop

           

2:00 – 2:45             Plenary Session

 

                        Nanotechnology: Environmental Friend or Foe

                                                            Vicki Colvin, Mark Wiesner, Rice University

2:45 – 3:00            Break

 

3:00 - 3:30            Nanotech and the Environment  Environmental Science &Technology Article   

Wei-xian Zhang, Lehigh University

                                                Tina Masciangioli, AAAS Fellow at EPA

 

3:30 – 4:30            Presentations by EPA/STAR Grantees

                       

                        Moderator, Nora Savage

 

                                                Sensors:

 

                        3:30 – 3:50            Wan Shih, Drexel University

                                                Ultrasensitive Pathogen Quantification in Drinking Water Using Highly Piezoelectric PMN-PT Microcantilevers

 

                        3:50 – 4:10            Robert Gawley, University of Miami

                                                Nanosensors for Detection of Aquatic Toxins

            

                        4:10 – 4:30            William Trogler, University of California, San Diego

                                                Nanostructured Porous Silicon and Luminescent Polysiloles as Chemical Sensors for Carcinogenic Chromium (VI) and Arsenic (V)

 

 

4:30 - 6:00            Poster Sessions - Focus on Research Plans

 

                        4:30 - 5:15            Posters manned by Chen, Shaw, Sigmund, Diallo, McMurry, Battacharyya, Strongin, Zhang

                                               

                        5:15 - 6:00            Posters manned by Shih, Gawley, Trogler, Tao, Johnston, Chumanov, Larsen, Velegol

                                               

 

6:30                 Dinner

 

 

Thursday, August 29, 2002

 

8:30- 8:40            Opening Remarks

                                    Pasky Pascual

 

8:30 – 9:30             Plenary Session:            Background and Challenges of Nanotech for the US

                                                            Mike Roco,  NSF

                                                            EPA/Nano collaboration

                                                            Dave Rejeski, Wilson Center

 

9:30 – 10:10            Presentations by EPA/STAR Grantees

                                   

                                    Yvonne Jones-Brown, Moderator

 

                                                Sensors (continued):

 

                        9:30 – 9:50            NongjianTao, Arizona State University

                                                A Nanocontact Sensor for Heavy Metal Ion Detection

 

                        9:50 – 10:10            Murray Johnston, University of Delaware

                                                Elemental Composition of Freshly Nucleated Particles

 

10:10 - 10:20            Break           

 

10:20 – 11:20            Presentations by EPA/STAR Grantees           

                                               

                                                Treatment:

 

                        10:20 – 10:40            Wilfred Chen, University of California, Riverside

                                                Nanoscale Biopolymers with Tunable Properties for Improved Decontamination and Recycling of Heavy Metals

 

                        10:40 - 11:00            Ismat Shah, University of Delaware

                                                Synthesis, Characterization and Catalytic Studies of Transition Metal Carbide Nanoparticles as Environmental Nanocatalysts

                                                                       

                        11:00 - 11:20            Wolfgang Sigmund, University of Florida

                                                Simultaneous Environmental Monitoring and Purification through Smart Particles

                                               

 

11:20 - 12:00            Small Business Perspective

 

                        Nanomaterials Research Corporation

                        TDA - Nanocomposite Anchored Plasticizers                        Andrew Meyers           

                        ESpin                                                                                      Jayesh Doshi

                       

12:00- 1:30             Lunch

 

1:30 – 4:00            Presentations by EPA/STAR Grantees

                                   

                                    John Barich, Moderator

                                               

                                    Other areas of application:

 

                        1:30 – 1:50            George Chumanov,  Clemson University

                                                Plasmon Sensitized TiO2 Nanoparticles as a Novel Photocatalyst for Solar Applications                                    

 

                        1:50 – 2:10            Darrell Velegol,  Pennsylvania State University

                                                Green Engineering of Dispersed Nanoparticles: Measuring and Modeling Nanoparticles Forces

 

                        2:10 – 2:30            Sarah Larsen, University of Iowa

                                                Development of Nanocrystalline Zeolite Materials as Environmental Catalysts: From Environmentally Benign Synthesis Emission Abatement

 

 

                        2:30 - 2:50            Peter McMurry,  University of Minnesota

                                                Ion-Induced Nucleation of Atmospheric Aerosols

                                               

                       

2:50-3:00            Break

                                                Remediation:

 

                        3:00-3:20            Mamadou Diallo, Howard University

                                                Dendritic Nanoscale Chelating Agents: Synthesis, Characterization, Molecular Modeling and Environmental Applications 

                                               

                        3:20 - 3:40            Dibakar Battacharyya,  University of Kentucky

                                                Membrane-Based Nanostructured Metals for Reductive Degradation of Hazardous Organic at Room Temperature

                                               

                        3:40 - 4:00            Daniel Strongin,  Temple University

                                                A Bioengineering Approach to Nanoparticle Based Environmental Remediation

                                               

                       

4:00 - 4:10            Wrap Up

 

4:15                 Meeting Adjourns