News:
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Congratulations on the graduation of Jingyu Liu and Fei Guo. (May 2012)
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Hiroe Hu (Junior, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering) joins the LEHN lab. Welcome!! (Jan. 27, 2012)
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Annual Retreat for Brown University's Superfund Research Program (2012). Prof. Hurt gives presentation; Megan, Jingyu, and Fei present their posters. (Jan. 20, 2012)
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Invited review article on-line: "Biological interactions of graphene-family nanomaterials – an interdisciplinary review". (Chemical Research in Toxicology, September 28, 2011)
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For more information about the GRI or the Research Board, please visit:
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Paper "
Cell entry of one-dimensional nanomaterials occurs by tip recognition and rotation " is online. (Nature Nanotechnology, 2011)
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Jingyu Liu's paper "
Ion Release Kinetics and Particle Persistence in Aqueous Nano-Silver Colloids " is now on the ES&T "Most Cited" list. (June, 2011)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rhode Island establishes a State Consortium for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Robert Hurt, Co-Director) as collaboration between URI, Brown, and regional industry. The consortium leadership travelled to India in summer of 2011 to establish a Memorandum of Understanding with IIT Kanpur and its DTU Unit on Nanoscience (http://www.uri.edu/nano/).
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Welcome to Prof. Jose Rene Rangel-Mendez on sabbatical from IPICYT in San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Rene Rangel-Mendez
Professor of the Environmental Sciences Division
Institute for Scientific and Technological Research of San Luis Potosi (IPICYT), Mexico
E-mail: rene@ipicyt.edu.mx
Web page: www.ipicyt.edu.mxAcademic Background:
Master of sciences in Chemical Engineering (UASLP, Mexico)
Doctoral studies in Chemical Engineering (Loughborough University, England)
Posdoctoral Appointment (Civil Engineering, Penn State University, USA)
Sabbatical 08/2011 – 07-2012 (Engineering, Brown University, USA)Research Interests:
Treatment of liquid effluents by adsorption and ion exchange processes
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Congratulations on the graduation of Drs. Love Sarin and Lutfiye Bulut. Love is now CEO of Banyan Environmental, and Lutfiye is on the faculty at Aegean University in Izmir, Turkey. (2009 Fall)
Dr. Love Sarin
Dr. Lutfiye Bulut --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Prof. Hurt gives plenary lecture at Carbon 2010. (Download pdf slides).
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Work of Lorin Jakubek on nanotubes and neuronal calcium-ion channels featured in Nature News
Kane and Hurt write News and Views article for Nature Nanotechnology on the nanotube/asbestos controversy [Nature Nanotechnology, July 2008]
LEHN work on mercury capture from compact fluorescent lamps receives coverage in the scientific and popular press:
Indrek Kulaots gives invited talk at Carbon 2008 in Nagano Japan
Natalie Johnson wins the Division of Engineering's top commencement honor for her work on mercury from fluorescent lamps - The Domenic Ionata award for creative research
Kane and Hurt groups start new NIEHS R01 Project on in vitro granuloma formation induced by carbon nanotubes
Brown establishes new nanosciences institute, IMNI
Natalie Johnson wins Rhode Island AIChE paper competition
Natalie Johnson and William Turnbull win undergraduate poster award in AICHE 2007
Complete renovation of LEHN lab – new paint, tile, class A2 biosafety hood, 2 new fume hoods, Flow Sciences balance enclosure for nanosafety, new microbalance, zeta potential instrument, Langmuir trough, and live cell imaging confocal microscope
Kengqing Jian and Joseph Fontaine receive Ph.D. (spring 2006)
New NSF NIRT project on nanomaterial toxicity / biocompatibility (Sept. 2005)
