2006 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Health and Environmental Effects of Nanoparticles

This session will accept papers dealing with the health implications of nanoparticles including how techniques in nanotechnology can have applications in life sciences combating diseases.

Chair

Richard C. Flagan, California Institute of Technology

Co-Chair

Michele L. Ostraat, DuPont Engineering Research and Technology

Presentations

03:15 PM

(592a) Nanoparticle Occupational Safety and Health Consortium: Aerosol Nanoparticle Behavior and Barrier Efficiency of Filter Media to Engineered Aerosol Nanoparticles

Michele L. Ostraat, Keith A. Swain, James J. Krajewski, Robert J. Small

03:35 PM

(592b) Managing Uncertainty: a Best Management Practices Approach to Nanoscale Materials and Occupational Health Concerns

Douglas D. Daugherty, Diane J. Mundt, Robert Adams, Annette B. Santamaria, Kenneth A. Mundt

03:55 PM

(592c) Differential Distribution and Toxicity of Nanomaterials in Vivo

Stacey L. Harper, Crystal Y. Usenko, Robert L Tanguay

04:15 PM

(592d) Tools for Aerosol Nanoparticle Exposure Assessment

Richard C. Flagan, Harmony Gates, Nicholas Brunelli

04:35 PM

(592e) Oxide Nanoparticles Uptake in Human Lung Cells

Ludwig Limbach, Robert N. Grass, Tobias J. Brunner, Detlef Gunther, Wendelin J. Stark

04:55 PM

(592f) Use of Physiologically Based in Vitro Models of the Gastrointestinal Tract to Study Nanoparticle Absorption and Toxicity

Gretchen J. McAuliffe, Shivaun D. Archer, Raymond P. Glahn, Michael Shuler

05:15 PM

(592g) Stable Colloidal Dispersions of C60 Fullerenes in Water: Evidence for Genotoxicity

Alok Dhawan, Julian S. Taurozzi, Alok K. Pandey, Wenqian Shan, Sarah M. Miller, Syed A. Hashsham, Volodymyr V. Tarabara