Conference: Supporting Students and Early Career Researchers as Participants in the 11th SNO Workshop and Conference 2022

2022可持续纳米技术组织会议和研讨会的主题是纳米技术的环境应用和影响。在过去的二十年里，美国的纳米技术研究和开发一直在蓬勃发展，在各种行业中取得了范式转变的成果。因此，近年来纳米技术对环境的影响变得越来越重要。推进环境纳米技术研究的一个关键组成部分是组织年度会议。这些会议允许大学、公司和政策制定者等关键参与者讨论可持续和安全纳米技术的关键方面。此外，这些活动有助于讨论最近的进展。会议还促进了交流机会，通过提高学生和早期职业研究人员的技术知识和沟通技巧来帮助劳动力培训，并培养了新的想法。会议将为早期职业研究人员提供旅费。将挑选这些与会者，以提高会议的多样性、公平性和包容性。今年的可持续纳米技术组织会议将重点关注与可持续性和环境相关的基本纳米尺度工艺，并介绍最新的知识和纳米应用前景。会议将以密切关注纳米尺度孔隙的运输为开端。随后将举行一系列高知名度的全体会议和同期会议，涵盖一系列广泛的主题，包括命运、运输、纳米材料的暴露、纳米材料在环境、能源部门和农业中的应用，以及关于工程、教育和纳米影响中的女性的讨论。一组知名专家将主持这些会议，他们将分享想法，发展合作，并表彰该领域领导者的成就。可持续纳米技术组织会议为纳米环境学者提供了一个社区，并为许多早期的职业研究人员提供了一个平台。这种思想的交流将成为未来环境应用的催化剂，纳米尺度的传输将在其中发挥核心作用。会议还将促进许多领域的讨论，包括但不限于纳米能源、纳米尺度运输、纳米命运和运输、纳米环境应用、纳米传感器、纳米教育、工程和纳米技术中的妇女以及可持续纳米技术。会议将寻求将来自代表性不足的社区的学生、博士后和初级教员以及女性学者纳入其中。研讨会中代表的不同学术和种族背景增加了一个创造性，包容性和多样化的知识环境。学生们将从工作坊的多样性和包容性中获得经验和灵感，这将有助于他们在各自的领域建立自己的职业生涯。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The theme of the 2022 Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization Conference and Workshop is environmental applications and implications of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology research and development in the United States has been thriving to achieve paradigm shifting outcomes in a variety of industries within the last two decades. Consequently, environmental impacts of nanotechnology have become more relevant in recent years. One crucial component to advance environmental nanotechnology research is organizing annual conferences. These meetings allow discussions of the critical aspects of sustainable and safe nanotechnology among the key players such as universities, companies, and policy makers. In addition, these activities facilitate discussion of recent advances. The Conference also fosters networking opportunities, helps workforce training by improving students’ and early career researchers’ technical knowledge and communication skills, and nurtures new ideas. The Conference will provide travel costs for early career researchers. These attendees will be selected to improve the diversity, equity, and inclusion of the Conference. This year’s Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization Conference will focus on fundamental nano-scale processes related to sustainability and the environment and presents state-of-the-art knowledge and an outlook on nano-enabled applications. The conference will have a kick-start with a close look at transport through nano-scale pores. This will be followed by a set of high-profile plenaries and concurrent sessions covering a wide set of topics including fate, transport, exposure of nanomaterials, nanomaterial applications in the environment, energy sectors, and agriculture, as well as discussions on women in engineering, education, and nano-impacts. A group of renowned experts are leading these sessions who will share ideas, develop collaborations, and recognize accomplishments of the leaders in the field. The Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization Conference has served as the community for nano-environmental scholars and has given a platform to many early-career researchers. This exchange of ideas will serve as a catalyst for future environmental applications, where nano-scale transport plays a central role. The conference will also catalyze discussions in many areas including, but not limited to, nano-energy, nano-scale transport, nano-fate and transport, nano-enabled environmental applications, nano-sensors, nano-education, women in engineering and nanotechnology, and sustainable nanotechnology. The conference will seek to incorporate students, postdocs, and junior faculty members from underrepresented communities as well as women scholars. The diverse academic and ethnic backgrounds represented in the workshop augment a creative, inclusive, and diverse intellectual environment. The students will gain experience and inspiration from the diversity and inclusivity of the workshop, which will help them build their careers in their respective fields.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.