2015 Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization (SNO) Conference; Portland, Oregon; November 8 - 10, 2015

纳米技术将在实现全球社会的可持续发展方面发挥关键作用。然而，纳米技术本身必须以经济上和环境上可持续的方式整合到这些解决方案中，并得到公众的充分认识和接受。许多现有的纳米技术目前是不可持续的，因为它们依赖于大量的能源、水和溶剂，使用不可再生资源来开发它们，或者对环境造成不必要的影响。2015年可持续纳米技术组织（SNO）会议计划将讨论可持续纳米技术的这些关键方面。该计划将围绕选定的重要系统建立，包括农业、环境。健康和能源系统。会议的系统焦点将来自不同学科的研究人员聚集在一起，研究特定系统（例如水）的命运、影响、生命周期评估和分析挑战，并在相同的会议上相互交流思想。这是一种不同于大多数会议的方法，这些会议不考虑感兴趣的制度，就这些主题单独举行会议。该组织的目的是为特定系统的研究人员提供所需的工具，以了解他们的工作如何适应更大的综合系统的可持续性。其他跨领域会议将包括制造业和工业生态学、固体废物和电子废物的减少和回收、建模、数据管理、方法和数据报告的标准化以及法律和监管方面。会议还将更好地让研究和测试新型纳米药物的卫生专业人员参与进来。本次会议将关注纳米材料在实现综合系统级可持续解决方案方面的作用，以解决社会最紧迫的问题，包括有限的自然资源、温室气体排放、清洁水和食物的获取以及环境退化。社会问题将在教育和社会制度/治理会议上讨论。预计将有来自工业界、政府、学术界和非政府组织利益相关者的250名与会者参加。会议将吸引顶尖的跨学科科学家，并将包括至少30名初级学者（博士和博士后）的参与者，并提供20个学生旅行奖（5个专门针对URM学生）以鼓励他们参与。因此，这次会议将为处于不同职业阶段的科学家提供交流的机会。为期两天半的会议将包括一些论坛讨论，这将促进年轻研究人员和更成熟的研究人员之间的互动。SNO会议对新的研究人员来说是特别重要的，因为很少有类似的会议讨论可持续纳米技术的广泛主题。此外，来自科学界代表性不足群体的科学家将在会议中发挥关键作用。这些教师和行业参与者可以获得特定的旅行奖励。与会者将不仅来自美国，而且来自世界各地，确保一个多元化的国际专家小组促进刺激的讨论。

Nanotechnology will play a key role in achieving sustainability in the global society. However, nanotechnology must itself be integrated into these solutions in an economically and environmentally sustainable manner, and with full public awareness and acceptance. Many existing nanotechnologies are currently not sustainable due to their dependence on large quantities of energy, water, and solvents, the use of non-renewable resources to develop them, or unwanted environmental impacts. The 2015 Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization (SNO) conference program will address these critical aspects of sustainable nanotechnology. The program will be built around selected important systems including agricultural, environmental. health, and energy systems. The systems focus for the meeting brings together researchers from different disciplines studying fate, effects, lifecycle assessment, and analytical challenges in a particular system (e.g. water) into the same sessions to cross-fertilize ideas between them. This is a different approach from most meetings which have separate sessions on these topics, irrespective of the system of interest. The aim of this organization is to provide researchers in a specific system the tools needed to understand how their work fits into achieving sustainability in the larger integrated system. Additional cross-cutting sessions will include manufacturing and industrial ecology, solid waste and e-waste reduction and recycling, modeling, data management, standardization of methods and data reporting, and legal and regulatory aspects. The conference will also better engage health professionals researching and testing novel nanomedicines. Three forum discussions will be: sustainability, nanoinformatics including data reporting and standardization,The SNO Conference will draw attention to the role of nanomaterials in achieving integrated systems-level sustainable solutions to society's most pressing problems including natural limited resources, greenhouse gas releases, access to clean water and food, and environmental degradation. Societal issues will be addressed in sessions on Education and Social Systems/Governance. It is anticipated that 250 participants from industry, government, academia, and NGO stakeholders will participate. The conference will attract the leading interdisciplinary scientists and will include at least 30 participants who are junior scholars (doctoral and postdoctoral students), with 20 student travel awards (5 specifically for URM students) available to encourage their participation. Thus, the conference will provide networking opportunities for scientists at different career stages. The two and half day schedule will include a number of forum discussions that will foster interactions between young investigators and more established researchers. The SNO Conference is of particular importance to new investigators as there are few if any similar conferences that address the broad topic of Sustainable Nanotechnology. In addition, scientists from underrepresented groups in science will play key roles in the conference. Specific travel awards are available for these faculty and industry participants. Participants will come from not only the U.S., but around the globe, ensuring a diverse and international expert group to facilitate stimulating discussions.