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

2022年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，以实现各种行业的范式转变。因此，近年来纳米技术对环境的影响变得更加重要。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。这些会议允许在大学，公司和政策制定者等关键参与者之间讨论可持续和安全的纳米技术的关键方面。此外，这些活动有助于讨论最新进展。会议还促进了网络机会，通过提高学生和早期职业研究人员的技术知识和沟通技能来帮助劳动力培训，并培养新的想法。会议将为早期职业研究人员提供旅费。这些与会者将被选中，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过程，并介绍最先进的知识和对纳米应用的展望。会议将有一个启动与通过纳米级孔运输密切关注。随后将举行一系列备受瞩目的全体会议和并行会议，涵盖广泛的主题，包括纳米材料的命运，运输，暴露，纳米材料在环境中的应用，能源部门和农业，以及关于工程，教育和纳米影响中的妇女的讨论。一组著名的专家正在领导这些会议，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一直是纳米环境学者的社区，并为许多早期职业研究人员提供了一个平台。这种思想交流将成为未来环境应用的催化剂，其中纳米级运输发挥着核心作用。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，可持续纳米技术。会议将寻求纳入学生，博士后，和初级教师从代表性不足的社区以及女学者。在研讨会上代表的不同学术和种族背景增加了创造性，包容性和多样性的知识环境。学生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领域建立自己的职业生涯。该奖项反映了NSF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.