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February 12, 2008 - Read the Federal Register notice about EPA's Nanotechnology Research Strategy and meeting to review public comment:
- FR Notice Requesting Public comment on EPA's Nanotechnology Research Strategy and comment review meeting (PDF) (3 pp, 53 K)
- EPA's draft Nanotechnology Research Strategy (PDF) (76 pp, 1.10 MB)
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Nanotechnology Search
Headline News:
- Pacing Nanotechnology
- OSU to Study Nanotech’s Safety
- EPA awards OSU nearly $600,000 for Nanotechnology Safety Research
- Nanotechnology: Small Parts, Big Deal
Nanotechnology: The Big News is Small
Americans are famous for building big: the tallest sky scraper, the biggest jet, the widest plasma TV screen. But now U.S. entrepreneurs are considering thinking small. Nanotechnology uses particles 80,000 times smaller than a human hair; yet the new technology has the potential to quickly clean up pollution, cure serious illnesses, and make the computer silicon chip obsolete.
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STAR Grantee Develops Potentially Inexpensive Nanotube Solar Technology
Somenath Mitra, along with researchers at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has developed a potentially cheap solar technology which can be painted or printed on flexible plastic sheets. The benefits could be enormous to the consumer, producer, and the environment.
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Nanoparticle-Anchored Plasticizers
With support from EPA’s SBIR Program, TDA Research, Inc., developed a system that softens plastics by forming a polymer nanocomposite that does not become brittle and contaminate its surroundings by leaching its plasticizer.
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New Approaches to Nanotechnology on NPR
Two representatives from NNI agencies were featured on a National Public Radio Program, produced in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Jeffery Schloss and Dr. Nora Savage.Two representatives from NNI agencies, Jeffery Schloss 
, Co-Chair, Trans-NIH Nano Taskforce, National Institutes of Health and Nora Savage, Environmental Engineer, Office of Research & Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency were featured on The Kojo Nnamdi Show , a news magazine program on WAMU (88.5 FM), American University Radio in Washington, D.C. [Read More]
NWRI Funds Recovery of Metal Ions from Membrane Concentrates by Dendrimer-Enhanced Filtration
Dr. Mamadou Diallo, EPA STAR researcher, is examining to examine the feasibility of removing metals from the leftover wastes of water treatment processes by using a nanotechnology-based technology. This work, funded by the National Water Research Institute represents a furtherance of Diallo's EPA research grant, (R829626) - Dendritic Nanoscale Chelating Agents: Synthesis, Characterization, Molecular Modeling and Environmental Applications, in its last year.
Dendrimers are monodisperse and highly branched nanostructures with controlled composition and architecture. The title of the NWRI project is “Recovery of Metal Ions from Membrane Concentrates by Dendrimer- Enhanced Filtration”. Diallo is currently Director of Molecular Environmental Technology at the Materials and Process Simulation Center of the Beckman Institute at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), as well as Visiting Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Howard University in Washington, DC. An Environmental Engineer with a background in molecular physical chemistry, Diallo states that “The purpose of this research is to merge nanotechnology with water purification processes. It’s a tall order, but it’s also an opportunity to develop a new generation of water purification technologies that can help us remove some of the most difficult-to-remove contaminants.”
EPA Scientists Co-Edit Special Journal Issues
Drs. Barbara Karn and Nora Savage have served as co-editors on two recent special journal issues.
Karn and Dr. Wei-xian Zhang of Lehigh University are co-editors of a special edition of Environmental Science and Technology published on March 1, 2005. The issue, entitled "Nanotechnology: Special Issue" volume 39, number 5, featured twenty-eight (28) articles by prominent researchers in the field on nanotechnology and the environment. A feature article, "Environmentally Responsible Development of Nanotechnology" was written by Dr. Mihail Roco of the National Science Foundation and Chair of the U.S. National Science and Technology Council's subcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology.
Savage and Dr. Mamadou Diallo of Howard University and the California Institute of Technology are co-editors of a special edition, June 2005, of the Journal of Nanoparticle Research, "Nanoparticles and Water Quality" . The issue features an introductory article, co-written by Savage and Diallo, entitled "Nanomaterials and Water Purification: Opportunities and Challenges". There are an additional sixteen (16) articles in this issue on the topic of nanotechnology and water quality.
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