Session No. 58
	Thursday, 29 August 2013: 2:10 PM-4:30 PM
	Washington III (Hilton Crystal City Hotel)
	
	 Nano-Particles and Nanoscience in Medical Geology
	
	
	
	
	
 
	
	
	
		
	
    
	
		
			Wen-An Chiou and Lynda Williams, Chairs
		
 
	 
  
	
	
	
	
	 
	
		
	
	
		2:10 PM 
		
		
	
	
		
			
				INVITED KEYNOTE: MINERALOGICAL FACTORS IN REGULATING THE ADSORPTION AND DEGRADATION OF AFLATOXIN BY SMECTITES
			
			
				
					DENG, Youjun1, BARRIENTOS VELAZQUEZ, Ana Luisa
1, LIU, Lian
1, SZCZERBA, Marek
2, ALAM, Sabrina Sharmeen
1 and DIXON, Joe B.
1, (1)Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2474, (2)Research Centre in Cracow, Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Senacka 1, Kraków,  31-002, Poland, yjd@tamu.edu, yjd@tamu.edu
 
			
			
				
			
		
	 
 
	
		
	
		
	
		
	
	
		3:30 PM 
		
		
	
	
		
			
				EXPLORATION OF THE CYTOTOXICITY OF ANTIBACTERIAL NATURAL CLAY OF LACUSTRINE ORIGIN
			
			
				
					LONDONO, S. Carolina, School of Earth & Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404 and WILLIAMS, Lynda B., School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, sandra.londono@asu.edu, sandra.londono@asu.edu
 
			
			
				
			
		
	 
 
	
		
	
	
		3:50 PM 
		
		
	
	
		
			
				ANTIBACTERIAL MINERALS: ESTABLISHING AN ANTIBACTERIAL MECHANISM
			
			
				
					MORRISON, Keith D., 1 School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 and WILLIAMS, Lynda B., School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, keith.morrison@asu.edu, keith.morrison@asu.edu
 
			
			
				
			
		
	 
 
	
		
	
	
		4:10 PM 
		
		
	
	
		
			
				CHARACTERIZATION OF NANOPARTICLES/NANOMATERIALS USING ELECTRON AND ION BEAMS
			
			
				
					CHIOU, Wen-An, NISP Lab, NanoCenter, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-2831 and SCHROEDER, Josef, Department of Pathology, Regensburg University Hospital, F-J-Strauss-Allee 11, Regensburg,  D-93053, Germany, wachiou@umd.edu, wachiou@umd.edu