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Title: CrossDiv Symposium-Environmental Nanotechnology: Preventing and Solving Current and Future Problems
Lead Community Sponsor:
Cosponsor: SSSA Division: Soil Physics and Hydrology, SSSA Division: Soil Chemistry, SSSA Division: Soils and Environmental Quality, SSSA Division: Soil Mineralogy, SSSA Division: Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Community Cosponsor:
Format: Oral Symposium
Keywords: Environment, Nanomaterial, Nanotechnology and Remediation
Session Description: This cross-divisional symposium will highlight the potential environmental benefits of nanoscale materials and technologies while managing potential environmental risk and health impacts. The symposium will focus on the development of nanotechnology to solve critical environmental problems in energy, agriculture, food, and health while minimizing potential negative effects. We will highlight how nanomaterials can provide new solutions to current and future environmental problems especially those associated with the food-water-energy nexus. Potential applications for nanotechnology include the development of sensors for the detection of nutrients, pathogens, and chemical contamination in soil and water, plant protection products for disease management, and for contaminant remediation purposes. The symposium will also give special focus on topics such as fate, transport, retention, and transformation of nanoparticles in soil, molecular interactions of nanoparticles with biological entities, and use of modeling and experimental approaches to understand these processes. The symposium will conclude with a discussion on the future of nanotechnology in managed and natural systems to inform research and engage our community. The presenters will take questions in the 'Environmental Nanotechnology: Preventing and Solving Current and Future Problems - Panel Discussion Session'.