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