Sustainability in Water – Session Schedule/Venues
Going with the Flow: Water Sustainability Past, Present, Future
Sustainability in Water Supply: Advances in Oxidation Processes for Water Treatment
Structure and Dynamics at the Liquid-Liquid Interface
- 43 Papers in seven sessions
Great Lakes Research: Environmental Issues for a Freshwater Ecosystem
Educating the Public About the Challenges for Improving the Quality of Drinking Water
Environmental Inorganic Chemistry
Mechanisms of Metal Binding onto Microbial Cell Walls
Glyphosate-Resistant Crops and Weeds: Present and Future
- 25 papers in four sessions
Going with the Flow: Water Sustainability Past, Present, Future
Below are the papers that will be presented in this session. To see abstracts of the papers, click on the session title above, then click on the number in front of the paper’s title
- Water, water, everywhere: Will there be a drop to drink?
- Waters at the intersection of chemistry and culture
- Water, water everywhere: Role of the water analyst in 19th century England
- Clean water for all: Progress of water treatment technology in the 20th century
- Porous polymers via macroreticular synthesis: Nature and applications
- Historical perspective on ion exchange resin technology for water purification
- Arsenic, nitrate, and perchlorate in water: Dangers, distribution, and removal
- Arsenic crisis on the Indian subcontinent: A sustainable solution and the role of chemistry
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Sustainability in Water Supply: Advances in Oxidation Processes for Water Treatment
Below are the papers that will be presented in this session. To see abstracts of the papers, click on the session title above, then click on the number in front of the paper’s title
- Oxidation processes in water purification: The fundamental reactions
- Evaluation and comparison of advanced treatment processes for removal of chemical pollutants during water reuse
- Emerging contaminant oxidation using ozone
- Oxidative treatment of steroid estrogens in pure synthetic and real waters: Formation of oxidation products and change of estrogenic activity
- Evaluation of ozone and ozone/UV process for DEP removal: Kinetic study and degradation pathway
- Stop-flow studies of the kinetics of halogenation of the endocrine disruptor ethynyl estradiol (EE2)
- Ultrasound effects on destruction of estrogen hormones in aqueous system
- Removal of antimicrobial compounds and their associated biochemical activity by UV photolysis and UV/H2O2 processes
- Moiety-specific oxidation reactions and consequent changes in biochemical activities of antibacterial compounds during aqueous ozonation processes
- Oxidation of phenyl-urea herbicides by ozone and advanced oxidation processes
- Oxidation of phenylurea herbicides induced by excited triplet states
- Direct and indirect (via H2O2) UV photodegradation of nicotine in water
- Hydroxyl radical mediated degradation of phenylarsonic acid
- Destruction of PCBs using sulfate radical-based advanced oxidation processes
- Ultrasonically induced degradation of 2-methylisoborneol and geosmin
- Reaction kinetics and transformation of carbadox and structurally related compounds with aqueous chlorine
- Study on degradation of trace nitrobenzene in drinking water by ceramic honeycomb-catalyzed ozonation
- The effect of ozonation on initial ozone demand of prechlorinated water
- Examination of mechanisms and yields of in situ generation of hydroxyl radicals and ozone in a flow-through electrochemical reactor
- Comparing the efficiency of hydroxyl radical formation during ozone and UV advanced oxidation processes
- Electron pulse radiolysis determination of hydroxyl radical rate constants with Suwannee River fulvic acid and other dissolved organic matter isolates
- Evaluation of hydroxyl radical removal efficiency using model organics in different quality wastewaters
- Compute-aided pathway generation for aqueous phase advanced oxidation processes
Posters
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Structure and Dynamics at the Liquid-Liquid Interface
Below are the papers that will be presented in this session. To see abstracts of the papers, click on the session title above, then click on the number in front of the paper’s title
Transport/Reactivity
- Molecular dynamics studies of the structure of the liquid/liquid interface: Implications for charge transfer reactions
- Functionalized interfaces for photoenergy conversion
- Formation of polymeric fences in planar model membranes: An experimental platform for the study of hop diffusion
- Lighting up liquid/liquid interfaces
- Dynamic adsorption of the azacrown ethers at the liquid-liquid interface
- Effects of reorientation in vibrational sum frequency spectroscopy
Structuring of Water
- Combining surface nonlinear spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations to understand molecular structure and bonding at a series of liquid-liquid interfaces
- Structure, dynamics, and solvation at aqueous interfaces
- Hydrophobic size effects measured by single molecule force spectroscopy
- Surface hydration dynamics and protein-water interactions
- Computational studies of hydrogen bonded liquid interfaces
- Molecular interactions at the oil/aqueous interface
Nanoparticles
- Effects of pH and salt concentration on oil-in-water emulsions stabilized solely by nanocomposite microgel particles
- Formation of nanocrystalline ultrathin films of materials liquid-liquid interface
- Specific and nonspecific solvation at liquid interfaces
- Particle deposition and assembly at the liquid/liquid interface
- Nanoparticle to microparticle to live nerve cell tissue aqueous interfaces
- Directed self-assembly of nanoparticles at oil/water interfaces
- Novel even-order nonlinear spectroscopy for liquid interfaces: Interface-specific hydrogen bonds and interfacial polarity
- X-ray study of the electric double layer at the n-hexane/nanocolloidal silica interface
- Assembly of nanoparticle at polymeric interfaces: Strong supramolecular interactions as ordering principles
- Investigating the mechanism of protein solvation by isotropic membrane mimetics
Ionic and Electrical Phenomena
- Electrowetting with electrolytes
- X-ray scattering from an electrolyte interface
- Structure of the interface between two immiscible liquids and interfacial tension
- Effect of counter ion size and charge on the structure of amphipiles adsorbed at a liquid-liquid interface using neutron reflectometry
- Electrochemical and spectroscopic investigation of the room temperature ionic liquid/aqueous interface
- Orientation of surface-active ions at the interface between water and a hydrophobic room-temperature ionic liquid studied by optical second harmonic generation spectroscopy
Surfactants
- Thermodynamic and structure studies of adsorbed films at oil/water interfaces
- Tuning liquid-llquid and liquid-solid interfaces with carbon dioxide
- Self-assembly of lipids and proteins at the aqueous-liquid crystal interface
- Molecular origins of interfacial activity at the crude oil-water interface
- Water next to model biomembranes
- Interaction of HIV-1 N-terminal peptide with erythrocyte membrane mimics
Interfacial Structure and Surfactants
- Molecular dynamics simulation of octanol/water interfaces
- Optical chirality of molecular aggregates at liquid/liquid interface
- Novel state of the adsorbed film of 1H,1H,10H,10H-perfluorodecane-1,10-diol at the hexane/water interface
- Structural order and dynamics at water/hydrocarbon interfaces
- An ellipsometry study of density profiles at the oil/water interface
Micelles and Aggregates
- Structure and dynamics at interfaces in reverse micelles
- Dynamics in aqueous polymer aggregate solutions
- Vibrational and photodetachment dynamics of anions in reverse micelles
- Modification in rheological properties due to charged network of ionic silicone surfactants at water-oil interface
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Great Lakes Research: Environmental Issues for a Freshwater Ecosystem
Below are the papers that will be presented in this session. To see abstracts of the papers, click on the session title above, then click on the number in front of the paper’s title
- Fifty years of the International Association for Great Lakes Research
- Mass balance models for persistent, bioaccumulative, toxic chemicals (PBTs) in the Great Lakes: Application to Lake Ontario
- Contaminant mass balance model applications in the Great Lakes: Lower Fox River/Green Bay and Lake Michigan
- PBDEs and PCBs in the sediments of the Great Lakes: Distributions, trends, influencing factors, and implications
- Great Lakes offshore biological desert and the nearshore slime around the tub
- Moving the region toward meaningful Great Lakes restoration
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Educating the Public About the Challenges for Improving the Quality of Drinking Water
Below are the papers that will be presented in this session. To see abstracts of the papers, click on the session title above, then click on the number in front of the paper’s title
- EPA's drinking water regulatory process
- Drinking water quality and treatment research at Louisville Water Company
- Testing residential water treatment technologies for contaminant reduction performance
- Point of use and point of entry technologies
- Microbial filtration utilizing carbon block, reverse osmosis and other point-of-use membrane technologies
- Global drinking water issues and solutions
- Testing the waters: Hands-on water testing for students
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Environmental Inorganic Chemistry
Below are the papers that will be presented in this session. To see abstracts of the papers, click on the session title above, then click on the number in front of the paper’s title
- Lagrangian water quality dynamics in the San Luis Drain, California
- Tracking manganese interaction with carboxylic acid functionalized fused quartz/water interfaces with second harmonic generation
- Genetics of iron acquisition by an environmental microbe and geochemical model, Pseudomonas mendocina ymp
- Heavy metal remediation using molybdenum oxide and tungsten oxide
- Second harmonic studies of chromium (VI) binding to alpha-aluminum oxide
- Size fractionated chemical characteristics of aerosols in fertilizer manufacturing facilities
- Understanding the removal of elemental mercury from flue gas using a SiO2-TiO2 nanocomposite
- Removing algae with electrocoagulation (EC)
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Mechanisms of Metal Binding onto Microbial Cell Walls
Below are the papers that will be presented in this session. To see abstracts of the papers, click on the session title above, then click on the number in front of the paper’s title
- Recent advances in understanding metal adsorption onto bacterial cell walls
- Mechanisms of uranium association with microorganisms and in the presence of clay
- Calorimetric measurement of adsorption on bacterial surfaces
- Spectroscopic parameters and thermodynamics of U and Cd bonding to extracellular bacterial polymers via computational chemistry
- Metal binding mechanism on bacterial cell walls: Using Cd as a model
- Experimental measurement of monovalent cation adsorption onto Bacillus subtilis cells
- Important selected questions related to metal complexation onto bacterial cells
- A combined titration, structure and metal reactivity study to evaluate Cd and Zn location in bacterial cells and model biopolymers
- XAFS of U(VI)-Fe(II) sorption to carboxyl surfaces as a model for redox interactions at the cell wall
- Metal interactions with bacterial surfaces
- Cd and Zn binding onto bacterial cell walls and its implication for accelerated transport in porous media
- Effects of extracellular polymeric substances on potentiometric titrations of bacteria
- Multiligand model systems for Cm(III)/Eu(III) binding on microbial surfaces
- Mn(II) sorption by live and dead cells of Shewanella putrefaciens
- Interactions of Mn2+ and V4+ with the surface of Shewanella putrefaciens CN32: Impacts on membrane structure
- Hexavalent chromium at amino acid-functionalized aqueous/solid interfaces studied by resonantly enhanced second harmonic generation
- Identification and isolation of gene clusters involved in iron acquisition by Pseudomonas mendocina ymp
- Biotoxicity of zinc oxide nanoparticles on model bacteria, Escherichia coli
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Glyphosate-Resistant Crops and Weeds: Present and Future
Below are the papers that will be presented in this session. To see abstracts of the papers, click on the session title above, then click on the number in front of the paper’s title
Glyphosate-Resistant Crops and Their Economic Impacts
- Glyphosate: A once-in-a-century herbicide
- Current and future glyphosate-resistant crops of Monsanto
- New multiple herbicide crop resistance and formulation technologies to augment the utility of glyphosate
- Athenix technology for GRCs
- Grower perceptions and experiences with glyphosate-resistant weeds
- Glufosinate-resistant crops
- Economic impact of glyphosate-resistant crops
Evolved Glyphosate-Resistant Weeds and Weed Shifts
- Glyphosate-resistant weeds in North America: The reasons and future implications for US agriculture
- Glyphosate-resistant weeds of South America: An overview
- Glyphosate-resistant weeds in Australia, Asia, Africa, and Europe
- Evaluating an altered target-site variant of EPSPS for glyphosate resistance
- Resistance to glyphosate from altered translocation patterns
- Weed species shifts in GRCs
Resistance Management and IPM Aspects
- Simulation modeling to aid in glyphosate-resistance management
- Sustainable use of glyphosate in North American cropping systems
- Sustaining glyphosate in South American cropping system
- Managing the risk of glyphosate resistance in Australian glyphosate-resistant cotton production systems
- Impacts of conservation crop production systems on soil and water resources: Glyphosate-resistant crops (GRCs) are part of the management toolbox
- Disease control activities of glyphosate in glyphosate-resistant crops
Health and Environmental Aspects of Glyphosate-Resistant Crops
- Pollen vs. seed movement: Gene migration from glyphosate-resistant crops
- Fate of glyphosate in soil and the possibility of leaching to ground and surface waters
- Safety assessment of GR genes in food and feed
- Assessing the environmental consequences of glyphosate-resistant weeds in the US
- Comparison of environmental effects of glyphosate-resistant crops vs. what they replace in Europe
- Glyphosate and hormesis: Environmental implications
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