Nanomaterials and the Environment

纳米材料与环境

• 批准号: 7059285
• 负责人: KATHRYN Elizabeth UHRICH
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-01 至 2006-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7059285
• 关键词: environment; meeting /conference /symposium; nanotechnology; travel

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this symposium is to highlight the latest research results in the emerging topic of the environmental aspects of nanomaterials. The National Nanotechnology Initiative, in its Strategic Plan for 2004, lists the Responsible Development of Nanotechnology as one of its four major goals. Responsible Development includes the study of environment, health, and safety implications, as well as ethical, legal, and societal issues. This forum is intended to bring together materials scientists, chemists, biologists, toxicologists, and ecologists to foster a cross-disciplinary discussion of: 1) the application of nanotechnology to the environment for the purposes of sensing and monitoring, remediation and treatment, and pollution prevention; and 2) the implications of nanotechnology on the environment, including potential health and environmental effects of nanomaterials. The symposium is also intended to encourage industry and research experts to include sustainability and efficiency aspects for materials and energy flow in their development projects. Societal, ethical, regulatory, and policy issues, along with nomenclature and measurement standards, will also be topics of discussion. The symposium is an effort to broadly include an interdisciplinary dialogue on nanotechnology, its applications, and implications. A key goal of this symposium is to bring together researchers to increase the fundamental understanding of nanomaterial interaction at the molecular and cellular level through in vitro and in vivo experiments and models, as well as their fate and transport in the environment throughout their life cycles. We anticipate that this, along with identification and characterization of potential exposure and risk, will contribute to determining human health impact and should be of significant interest to the National Institutes of Health. Technically competent social science research on the interaction between nanotechnology and society will dispel some of the hype and enable constructive public engagement.

描述（由申请人提供）：本次研讨会的目的是突出纳米材料环境方面这一新兴主题的最新研究成果。国家纳米技术计划在其2004年战略计划中把负责任的纳米技术发展列为其四个主要目标之一。负责任的发展包括对环境、健康和安全的影响，以及道德、法律和社会问题的研究。本次论坛旨在将材料科学家、化学家、生物学家、毒理学家和生态学家聚集在一起，促进跨学科的讨论：1)纳米技术在环境中的应用，用于传感和监测、修复和处理以及污染预防；2)纳米技术对环境的影响，包括纳米材料对健康和环境的潜在影响。专题讨论会还旨在鼓励工业和研究专家在其发展项目中列入材料和能源流动的可持续性和效率方面。社会、伦理、监管和政策问题，以及术语和测量标准，也将成为讨论的主题。