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Xinyuan Liu |
Yuming Gao |
- Back Row, From Left: Xuelie Wang, Daniel Morris, Prof. Robert Hurt, Shawn Manchester,
Lorin Jakubek Indrek Kulaots
- Front Row, From Left: Love Sarin, Aihui Yan, Natalie Johnson, Lin Guo, Lutfiye Bulut
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The Laboratory for Environmental and Health Nanosciences focuses on the creation of new nanomaterials and structures and their applications and implications for both the environment and for human health. Our diverse team of staff and student researchers, represents 6 countries and four disciplines (chemistry, chemical engineering, biomedical engineering, materials/mechanical engineering) and collaborates extensively with other groups to understand the complex problems that arise at the interface between nanomaterials and the natural world. (more info) |
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Robert Hurt, Professor of
Engineering, (CV)
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, M.I.T., 1987
Director, Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation at Brown
Editor, Carbon
Technical Program Chair, Carbon2004
2004/5 Graffin Lecturer of the American Carbon Society
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- Health impacts of manufactured carbon nanomaterials (w/ A.
Kane group)
- measurement and mitigation of Fe mobilization, DNA damage,
and cell death associated with nanotube catalyst residues
(L. Guo, D. Morris )
- mobilization, mitigation, and intracellular chemistry of Ni
associated with single-wall carbon nanotubes (X. Liu, L.
Jakubek, D. Morris, also w/ Zhitkovich group)
- folic acid and other micronutrient adsorption from cell culture medium and its implications for cell growth and nanotoxicity testing
- Safe nanomaterial development (nanotube detoxification protocols, surface functionalization schemes, TPGS as an antioxidant surfactant, environmental transformation of quantum dots (w/ A. Kane group and QDVision)
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characterization and suppression of mercury release from broken compact fluorescent lamps
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nanomaterial interactions with fruit flies - adhesion, transport, viability (w/ David Rand, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
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carbon nanotube effects on membranes and ion channels (w/ Diane Lipscome, Neuroscience)
- “Supramolecular” nanocarbon synthesis - use of directed liquid
crystal assembly to design graphene layer arrangements in carbon
nanomaterials (K. Jian, B. Weissman w/ G. Crawford group)
- Nanotechnology enabled mercury capture (S. Manchester, Y. Gao,
I. Kulaots, K. Jian)
- Nanotopography
chips and arrays for cellular studies of biocompatibility;
nanocarbon / protein interactions (L. Jakubec, X. Liu, L.Guo w/
NIRT team)
- Combustion
micropatterning of carbon thin films and nanofiber arrays (L.
Bulut, I. Kulaots)
- Ceramic /
carbon nanocomposite coatings (K. Jian w/ Sheldon group and NIRT
team)
- Carbon
nanoparticles with self-assembled, high-activity surfaces using
liquid crystal spray pyrolysis (A. Yan, I. Kulaots)
- Nano-selenium
and its biological and environmental applications (L. Sarin,
A.Yan, w/ V. Sanchez in Kane group)
- Chemistry at
the graphene edge plane for surface applications of
supramolecular nanocarbons (A. Yan, I. Kulaots)
- Structure
evolution and annealing behavior of soot and
alternative-structure nanoparticles (L. Bulut)
- Superhydrophobic carbon and diamond films (A. Yan w/ X. Xiao in
B. Sheldon group)
- Novel
liquid-phase propulsion concepts (J. Fontaine)
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Self-assembled carbon thin films from lyotropic liquid crystal spin
coating. These unique films consist exclusively of graphene
layers oriented perpendicular to the substrate imparting high
surface activity and anisotropy in the substrate plane
(K.
Jian in collaboration with laboratory of Prof. G. Crawford).
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Micropattern of molecular orientation in discotic film made by
liquid crystal surface anchoring on two-component lithographic
template
(K. Jian in collaboration with laboratory of Prof. G. Crawford) |
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Murine
macrophage adhered to open mesh of platelet-symmetry carbon
nanofibers synthesized in the LINC
(L.
Guo in collaboration with laboratory of Prof. A. Kane).
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Free-standing vertical array of carbon nanofibers prepared by liquid
crystal templating and solvent exchange
(L.
Guo)
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Ordered array of carbon/carbon
composite nanofibers fabricated by discotic liquid crystal assembly
in nanochannel alumina with CVD carbon precoating
(K. Jian in collaboration with
laboratory of Prof. B. Sheldon).
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Carbon
nanoparticles fabricated in the LINC by liquid crystal assembly
during microdroplets spray pyolysis
(A.
Yan, I. Kulaots).
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Nanophase iron doped on platelet-symmetry carbon nanofibers as model
material system for studying residual catalyst effects in
cytotoxicity
(D.
Morris, K. Jian)
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