Nanotechnology and the Environment

Preface ; SECTION I. ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS ; 1. Overview: Environmental Applications and Implications ; How does nanotechnology relate to the environment? ; 2. Environmental technologies at the nanoscale ; 3. Reassessing risk assessment ; 4. The environmental impact of engineered nanomaterials ; Section II. Environmental Implications: Toxicology and biological interactions of nano-materials ; 1. Toxicology and biological interactions of nano-materials: An Overview ; 2. A role for immunology in nanotechnology. ; 3. Effects and fate of inhaled ultrafine particles. ; 4. Toxicity of single-walled carbon nanotubes in the lungs of mice exposed by intratracheal instillation ; 5. Pulmonary-toxicity-screening studies with single-wall carbon nanotubes. ; Section III. Environmental Implications: Nanoparticle geochemistry in water and air ; 1. Nanoparticles and the environment ; 2. Nano-scale heavy-metal phases on atmospheric and groundwater colloids. ; 3. Recent insights into the formation and chemical composition of atmospheric nanoparticles from the Aerosol Nucleation and Real-time Characterization Experiment. ; 4. Outer-sphere coordination of uranyl carbonate by modified cyclodextrins: implications for speciation and remediation ; Section IV. Environmental Implications: Metrology for nano-sized materials ; 1. Metrology for nano-sized materials: An Overview. ; 2. Molecular-dynamics simulation of forces between colloidal nanoparticles. ; 3. Growth and characterization of single-crystal multilayer nanostructures for fast-ion conduction. ; 4 esel nanoparticles. Section V. Environmental Applications: Sensors and Sensor systems ; 1. Sensors and Sensor systems: An Overview ; 2. Sorptive properties of monolayer-protected gold nanoparticle films for chemical vapor sensors and arrays. ; 3. Semiconductor nanostructures for detection and degradation of low-level organic contaminants from water. ; 4. Luminescent Silole Nanoparticules as Chemical Sensors for Carcinogenic Chromium(VI) and Arsenic(V) ; 5. A Nanocontact Sensor for Heavy Metal Ion Detections ; 6. Ultrasensitive Pathogen Quantification in Drinking Water Using Highly Piezoelectric Microcantilevers ; 7. Nanostructured sorbents for solid-phase microextraction and environmental assay. ; 8. Photosynthetic biosensors for rapid monitoring of primary source drinking water ; Section VI. Environmental Applications: Treatment/Remediation using Nanotechnology ; 1. Environmental Applications: Treatment/Remediation using Nanotechnology ; 2. Activation of gold nanoparticles on titania: A novel DeSOx catalyst. ; 3. Fabrication of two-dimensional and three-dimensional platinum nanoparticle systems for chemisorption and catalytic-reaction studies. ; 4. Nano-biotechnology in using enzymes for environmental remediation: Single-enzyme nanoparticles. ; 5. Charge development on ferritin: An electrokinetic study of a protein containing a ferrihydrite nanoparticle ; 6. A Bioengineering approach to the production of metal and metal oxide nanoparticles ; 7. Dendritic nanoscale chelating agents: Synthesis, characterization and environmental applications. ; 8. Iron nanoparticles for site remediation ; 9. Membrane-based nanostructured metals for reductive degradation of hazardous organics. ; 10. Porous membranes containing zero-valent iron nanorods for water treatment. ; Section VII. Environmental Applications: Nanocatalysts for environmental technology ; 1. Nanocatalysts for environmental technology ; 2. Nanocrystalline metal oxides: A new family of mesoporous inorganic materials useful for destructive adsorption of environmental toxins. ; 3. Development of nanocrystalline zeolite materials as environmental catalysts. ; 4. A Vibrational spectroscopic study of the CO + NO reaction: From Pd single crystals at ultrahigh vacuum to Pd clusters supported on SiO2 thin films at elevated pressures. ; 5. Nanostructured catalysts for environmental applications ; 6. Catalytic oxidations using nanosized octahedral molecular sieves. ; Section VIII. Environmental Applications: Environmentally benign nano-manufacturing ; 1. Environmentally benign nano-manufacturing: An Overview ; 2. Synthesis of surfactant-templated aerogels with tunable nanoporosity. ; Section IX. Environmental Applications: Nanotech-enabled Green energy and Power Sources ; 1. Energy and the environment: Perpetual dilemma or nanotechnology-enabled opportunity? ; 2. Electrochemistry at nanometer length scales ; 3. Using mesoporous nanoarchitectures to improve battery performance ; 4. Nanostructured superlattice thin-film thermoelectric devices ; 5. Membraneless fuel cells: An application of microfluidics ; 6. Hybrid photoelectrochemical-fuel cell