2015 PROGRAM

SUN-SNO-GUIDENANO Sustainable Nanotechnology Conference 2015

Monday, March 9, 2015
9:00 Welcome & Introduction of the Conference Danail  Hristozov,  Barbara Karn, Soccorro Vasquez Campos
9:15 Plenary Lecture 1: Nanotechnology Path to Sustainable Society Mihail Roco
10:00 Discussion Panel 1: Environmental applications
Environmental Applications of Nanotechnology for Water Purification
Sustainable nanotechnology for water: what about membrane developments?
Photocatalysis for Water Treatment
Groundwater pollution treatment with micro and macro ZVI compared with nano ZVI
Chair: Paul Westerhoff
Tony Byrne, Jean-Yves Bottero, Gilbert Rios
11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 Parallel session 1A: Occupational & Consumer Exposure Chairs: Keld Alstrup Jensen
11:30 Current state of knowledge when it comes to consumer exposure to nanomaterial embedded in a solid matrix Aiga Mackevica
11:50 Can weathering and processing release a nanoscale transparent organic pigment from the polymer matrix of consumer products? Nicole Neubauer
12:10 Exposures to Nanoparticles and Fibers during Manufacturing and Recycling of  Polycarbonate Carbon Nanotube composites Dhimiter Bello
12:30 Evaluation of nano exposure models Wouter Fransman
12:50 Inhalation exposure and dermal deposition of airborne particles during electrostatic spraying of liquid TiO2-based nanocoating
Antti J. Koivisto
11:30 Parallel session 1B: Ecotoxicology, effects on ecosystem services & ecological risks Chairs: Teresa F. Fernandes
11:30 Fish cell lines as in vitro models for ecotoxicology testing of engineered nanomaterials Azucena Bermejo-Nogales
11:54 Mechanisms underlying the enhancement of toxicity caused by coincubation of ZnO and Cu nanoparticles Maria Luisa Fernandez-Cruz
12:18 Copper nanoparticles or compounds impact agronomic and physiological parameters in cilantro (Coriandrum sativum) Nubia Zuverza-Mena
12:42 Trophic Transfer Potential of Nanoparticles In Terrestrial Food Chains Jason White
13:06 The effects of nanomaterials of individual species and ecosystem service Simon Little
11:30 Parallel session 1C: Life Cycle Thinking & LCA Chair: Michael Steinfeldt
11:30 Contribution of nanotechnology and nanomaterials to increased sustainability of industrial products and processes David G. Rickerby
11:50 Brazilian scenario in sustainable nanotechnology Rachel Horta Arduin
12;10 New framework accounting for a spatial differentiation in the calculation of characterisation factors for the toxicity potential of nanomaterials Beatrice Salieri
12:30 Approach for Human Toxicity and Freshwater Ecotoxicity midpoints determination for their inclusion in Life Cycle Assessment of nanotechnology-based products Socorro Vazquez-Campos
12:50 Precious metal recovery from nanowaste for sustainable nanotechnology: Current challenges and life cycle considerations’ Peter Vikesland
13:10 From laboratory to industrial scale: scale-up calculations of chemical processes for LCA Fabiano Piccinno
13:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:30 Plenary Lecture 2: The quest for generating robust regulatory relevant data Speaker: Tom van Teunenbroek
15:10 Discussion Panel 2:
Green Nanotechnology Panel
Sustainable Nanotechnology
Barbara Karn, Omowunmi SadikSocorro Vasquez-Campos, Danail Hristozov,
16:10 COFFEE BREAK
16:30 Parallel session 2A: Toxicology and human health risks Chair: Danail Hristozov
16:30 Toxicity and biodistribution of surface chemically modified Ag nanoparticles Chengfang Pang
17:00 Nanotoxicology of cadmium sulfide quantum dots in different cellular models Nelson Marmiroli
17:30 Surface reactivity of CuO NPs is responsible for the early oxidative damages to A549 cells: a Trojan-horse independent mechanism Elisa Moschini
18:00 Nanotechnologies and Sustainability in the fields of Architecture and Preservation of Cultural Heritage
Federica Fernandez
16:30 Parallel session 2B: Environmental exposure, release & fate Chairs: Bernd Nowack, Greg Lowry
16:30 Nanomaterial Fate and Exposure Research: Where we are now and where we need to be to model environmental exposure
Greg Lowry, Bernd Nowack
16:50 Nanomaterials in a perspective of effects on ecosystem services and ecological risk Janeck J. Scott-Fordsmand
17:10 A Dynamic Probabilistic Material Flow Modeling Method for Environmental Exposure Assessment of Engineered Nanomaterials Nikolaus A. Bornhoft
17:30 Fate of fullerenes (C60) during peracetic acid (PAA) post disinfection of treated alum-enhanced combined sewer overflow (CSO) primary treatment Haitham Elnakar
17:50 Dynamic Probabilistic Modelling of Environmental Emissions of Engineered Nanomaterials Tian Yin Sun
18:10 Implications of using inappropriate fate descriptors for engineered nanoparticles Antonia Praetorius
16:30 Parallel session 2C: Industrial decision support tools Chairs: Elena Semenzin
16:30 Conceptual framework for Sustainable Nanotechnologies Decision Support System (SUNDS) Vrishali Subramanian
16:54 LICARA - guidelines for sustainable competitiveness of nanoproducts Claudia Som
17:18 Processing Nanoparticles in Suspension of High Solid Concentration: On-line Characterisation and Process Modelling Ceyda Oksel
17:42 Broadening our view on nanomaterials: highlighting potentials to contribute to a sustainable materials management in preliminary assessments
Henning Wigger
18:06 Anticipatory Ethics and Governance [AEG]: a
Jurisprudential approach.

Karena Hester
19:30 Dinner                                                                                           Wunmi Sadik