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

Flagan, R. C., California Institute of Technology

Co-Chair

Ostraat, M. L., 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

03:35 PM

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

03:55 PM

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

04:15 PM

(592d) Tools for Aerosol Nanoparticle Exposure Assessment

04:35 PM

(592e) Oxide Nanoparticles Uptake in Human Lung Cells

04:55 PM

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

05:15 PM

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