Nanotechnology shows great potential in environmental pollution control and remediation, and the environmental safety and impact assessment of nanomaterials is always important. It is of great importance to carefully evaluate the risks to the environment and human beings for applications of the emerging nanoproducts. This symposium aims to deliver the recent advances of nanomaterials relevant to the environmental applications and processes, human and environmental exposure, hazard identification and risk assessment and underlying toxicological mechanisms. Topics related to the improvement of biocompatibility are also welcomed.
Research topics include, but not limited to the following areas:
Environmental applications of nanomaterials (analysis of environmental pollutants, pollution control and remediation); environmental processes of nanomaterials (occurrence, transformation, fate and transport); human toxicology; nano-bio interfaces; pharmacokinetics and particokinetics; safe design of nanomaterials; human exposure to nano-consumer products (e.g. medical devices, paints, cosmetics, electronics and clothing); exposure scenarios and risk assessment of nanomaterials; ecotoxicology and risk assessment; ethical, legal and social issues of nanotechnology; methodology for analyzing the metabolism of nanomaterials in vivo/vitro; theoretical simulation of nanomaterials-biomolecule interaction and how to use this tool to better understand the safety of nanomaterials.
Huan Meng
National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, CAS, China
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, CAS, China
Ruibin Li
Soochow University, China