IEC 65 |
| Mamadou Diallo, Materials and Process Simulation Center, Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, and Department of Civil Engineering, Howard University, 2300 6th Street NW, Washington, DC 20059, Lajos Balogh, Center for Biologic Nanotechnology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 200 Zina Pitcher Pl, 4010 Kresge-II, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0533, James H. Johnson Jr., Department of Civil Engineering, Howard University, 2300 6th Street NW, Washington DC, 20059, and William A. Goddard, Materials and Process Simulation Center, California Insitute of Technology, Beckman Institute M/S 139-74, Pasadena, CA 91125. |
| Dendrimers are relatively monodisperse and highly branched nanoparticles with controlled composition and architecture consisting of three components: a core, interior branch cells and terminal branch cells. These nanoparticles can be designed to encapsulate (i) metal ions and (ii) zero valent metal clusters. Dendrimers can also be designed to form unimolecular micelles that can solubilize organic solutes. They have also been successfully used as delivery vehicles for bioactive compounds including antimicrobial and viral agents. This presentation will dicuss the synthesis, characterization of dendritic nanoparticles and potential environmental applications. The emphasis will be on properties that make dendritic nanoparticles particularly attractive as functional materials for a new generation of cost effective, mobile, flexible, reconfigurable and scalable systems for treating water contaminated by multicomponent mixtures of chemical and biological contaminants.
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Nanotechnology and the Environment
1:30 PM-5:25 PM, Monday, March 24, 2003 Convention Center -- Room 392, Oral
Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry |