2019 Environmental Nanotechnology Gordon Research Conference and Seminar
Abstract
Nanotechnology offers tremendous opportunities to improve human health, energy and food production efficiency, security, and environmental protection. Nanomaterials are also being developed for defense and security-based applications, and novel nanoscale materials and processes will underpin emerging technologies (and will be used to reimagine current technologies) for munitions, sensing, stealth, communications, armor, and energy technologies, water supply security, among others. Material-environment interactions will be key to stability, reliability, and ultimate performance. In addition, potential implications for using these technologies need to be considered and managed, including ecological and human health impacts. The 5th Gordon Research Conference on Environmental Nanotechnology will focus on advancing the understanding of how nanomaterials may interact with environmental systems and how they may be developed toward beneficial uses. The Environmental Nanotechnology GRC is one of the most interactive conferences on this topic, and is platforms for the generation of new ideas that go on to heavily influence the field. Participants include researchers from graduate students to professors, industry and government representatives, and international scientists which encourages the latest developments in the field from across the globe are discussed. The objectives of this 5th GRC on the topic will be to discuss and identify the next steps in the field. To do this the meeting will build on four highly successful previous Environmental Nanotechnology GRCÕs and will focus on recent advances in nanomaterial design and development, focusing on the fabrication and unique properties of nanostructures, soft nanomaterials, and bio-nanocomposites; cutting edge measurement techniques and tools in complicated matrixes; emerging nanotechnology applications related to security, water-treatment, and sustainable development; nano-enabled sensing; energy-environmental nexus; mechanistic insight and modeling of nano-biological interactions, including toxicity; sustainability and life-cycle approaches; and insights into the current global regulatory environment. The 2019 Gordon Conference on Environmental Nanotechnology and associated GRS will be held at the Sunday River Ski Resort on June 2-7, 2019 in Newry, Maine. Oral presentations will be in the morning and early evenings. Poster presentations will be during the latter part of the afternoon. This format will leave most of the afternoon for conference attendees to interact on an informal basis. The conference chairs will insist that senior colleagues closely interact with junior scientists. This format will promote open discussion and informal exchanges of ideas to advance the field and to establish new collaborations. The research presented and developed in relation to the Environmental Nanotechnology GRC is significant in the sustainable development of this technology. The open exchange of ideas is a GRC hallmark and the collaborations and ideas that originate at this conference is fundamental in advancing the field revolving around the field of the biological and environmental interactions of nanoscale materials. The activities of the GRC and GRS build opportunities for early-career scientists by integrating these new scientists into a non-intimidating environment to discuss their current research and build informal networks with their peers that may lead to a lifetime of collaboration and scientific achievement.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Mar 21, 2019
- Source ID
- W911NF1910187
Entities
People
- Rebecca Klaper
Organizations
- Army Contracting Command
- Gordon Research Conferences
- United States Army