Euronanoforum 2007

Nanotechnology in Industrial Applications
June 19-21, 2007, CCD Düsseldorf, Germany

Sessions A

Parallel Sessions Tuesday, June 19, 2007
16:00 - 18:30	Session A1: Nanoproduction and process technology
Chair	Isabelle Wieczorek, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) Horst Adams, Alcan Technologies & Management Ltd, Neuhausen (Switzerland)
1 keynote lecture 30 min	CARBON NANOTUBES: MATURING PRODUCTS BASED ON MATURING PROCESSES Frédéric Luizi Nanocyl S.A., Sambreville (Belgium)
oral presentation 1	ENERGY BALANCE OF CARBON NANO-PARTICLE APPLICATIONS: A TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT OF PRODUCTION AND USE SYSTEMS B. Sandén, D. Kushnir Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg (Sweden)
oral presentation 2	PRODUCTS MADE BY NANOSPIDER TECHNOLOGY Denisa Stranska Elmarco Ltd., Liberec (Czech Republic)
oral presentation 3	NANOLAYERS AND NANOSTRUCTURES FOR THE REFINEMENT OF POLYMER PROCUCTS - AN OVERVIEW Thomas Rühle, Achim Gruber, Stefan Stangler Freudenberg Forschungsdienste KG, Weinheim (Germany)
oral presentation 4	DETERMINISTIC NANOFABRICATION: CVD OR PECVD? Igor Levchenko¹, Kostya Ostrikov¹, Shuyan Xu², and Mi-chael Keidar³ ¹ University of Sydney (Australia) ² Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) ³ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA)
oral presentation 5	RAPID NANOCOMPOSITE MANUFACTURING - A NEW WAY OF REALIZING MULTIFUNCTIONAL APPLICATIONS Stephan Barcikowski, Anne Hahn, Andreas Ostendorf Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Hannover (Germany)
oral presentation 6	LARGE-SCALE SYNTHESIS OF SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES WITH A MODIFIED ARC-DISCHARGE TECHNIQUE Oliver Jost Fraunhofer Institut für Werkstoff- und Strahltechnik, Dresden (Germany)
16:00 - 18:30	Session A2: Measurements and quality assurance in the field of nanotechnology
Chair	Petra Wolff, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) Karsten Krause, European Commission, Directorate-General for Research, Transport Directorate
1 keynote lecture 30 min	TECHNIQUES; INSTRUMENTS AND SPECIAL ASPECTS OF CEN AND CEN-STAR WITH SOME VIEWS ON NANOTECHNOLOGY FOR MEASUREMENTS AND QUALITY ASSURANCE Gerard Revière, CEN/STAR, Brussels (Belgium)
oral presentation 1	SELECTIVE DETECTION OF SO₂ IN AIR BASED ON CARBON NANOTUBES NANOSENSORS Giselle Jiménez, Jordi Riu, Alicia Maroto, F. Xavier Rius Rovira and Virgili Gerard van Koten, Guido Batema University, Department of Analytical and Organic Chemistry, Tarragona (Spain) *Utrecht University, Department of Organic Chemistry and Catalysis, Utrecht (Netherlands)
oral presentation 2	MEASUREMENT IN NANOTECHNOLOGY Michael Stintz Institute of Process Engineering and Environmental Technology, TU Dresden (Germany)
oral presentation 3	COMPARISON OF DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING AND CENTRIFUGAL SEDIMENTATION FOR NANOPARTICLE SIZING Olivier Couteau, Gert Roebben Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM), Joint Research Centre, EC, Geel (Belgium)
oral presentation 4	METROLOGY OF CARBON NANOTUBES AND USING NOVEL AND "TRADITIONAL" NANOTOOLS John Lehman¹, Lara Street¹, Tom Campbell² ¹National Institute of Standards and Technologies, Boulder (USA), ²ADA Technologies, Littleton (USA)
oral presentation 5	SIMULTANEOUS SIZING OF NANOPARTICLES BY INDIVIDUALLY VISUALIZING AND SEPARATELY TRACKING THEIR BROWNIAN MOTION WITHIN A SUSPENSION Bob Carr, Patrick Hole and Andrew Malloy, NanoSight Ltd, Salisbury (UK)
oral presentation 6	LAWAVE - MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGY FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE Michael Becker¹, Thomas Schuelke¹, Dieter Schneider², Andreas Leson² ¹CCL, Michigan (USA); ²Fraunhofer Institute for Materials and Beam Technology (IWS), Dresden (Germany)
16:00 - 18:30	Session A3: Nanotechnology in Life Science and Medicine I
Chair	Julie Deacon, Oxford Biosensors Ltd., Oxfordshire (UK) Gert Storm, University of Utrecht, Utrecht (The Netherlands)
1 keynote lecture 30 min	ROLE OF INTERFACE ENGINEERING IN NANOBIOTECHNOLOGIES F. Rossi, P. Colpo and H. Stamm European Commission, Joint Research Center, Ispra (Italy)
oral presentation 1	CELL PROGRAMMING BY NANOSCALED DEVICES (CELLPROM) Günter R. Fuhr Fraunhofer-Institut für Biomedizinische Technik (IBMT), St. Ingbert (Germany)
oral presentation 2	ADVANCES IN SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY FOR BIOLOGY AND NANOSTRUCTURING Gerald Kada Agilent Technologies, Vienna (Austria)
oral presentation 3	NANOFARMA, AN SPANISH INDUSTRIAL CONSORTIUM TO INVEST IN NANOTECNOLOGY FOR DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS Pilar Calvo PharmaMar ; Colmenar Viejo, (Madrid) (Spain)
oral presentation 4	LIPID NANOSTRUCTURES AS CARRIERS FOR TARGETING PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTIVE AGENTS; FORMULATION AND IN VITRO STUDIES Mihaela Trif¹, Magda Moisei¹, Florica Chelu¹, Lucia Moldovan², Oana Craciunescu², Anca Roseanu¹ ¹ Institute of Biochemistry, Romanian Academy, Bucharest (Romania) ² National Institute for Biological Sciences, Romanian Ministry of Research, Bucharest (Romania)
oral presentation 5	NANOCYTES-TECHNOLOGY - BIOMIMETIC NANOPARTICLES FOR LIFE SCIENCES AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS Günter E.M. Tovar, Achim Weber, Carmen Gruber-Traub, Marc Herold, Kirsten Borchers Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology & University of Stuttgart, Institute for Interfacial Engineering, Stuttgart (Germany)
oral presentation 6	NANOPOROUS ALUMINUM OXIDE FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING Andreas Hoess and Andreas Heilmann Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials, Halle (Germany)
16:00 - 18:30	Session A4: Environmental, Health and Safety Aspects I
Chair	Wolf-Michael Catenhusen, Head of German NanoCommission, former State Secretary Eva Hellsten, European Commission, Directorate-General Environment, Water Chemicals and Cohesion Directorate
1 keynote lecture 30 min	NANOTECHNOLOGY: HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS OF NANOPARTICLES - RESEARCH STRATEGY Bruno Orthen Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Dortmund (Germany)
oral presentation 1	SWISS ACTIONPLAN 2006-2007 "RISKASSESSMENT AND RISKMANAGEMENT OF SYNTHETIC NANOPARTICLES" Christoph Meili, Die Innovationsgesellschaft, St.Gallen (Switzerland)
oral presentation 2	WORKPLACE SAFETY CONCEPTS AND MEASURES USING AND HANDLING NANOMATERIALS - AN EXPLANATION OF VCI'S GUIDANCE FOR HANDLING AND USE OF NANOMATERIALS AT THE WORKPLACE Markus Pridöhl German Association of Chemical Industry (VCI) and Degussa GmbH, Hanau (Germany)
oral presentation 3	MEASUREMENT STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT TOWARDS STANDARDIZED NANOPARTICLE EXPOSURE ASSESSMENTS - EXAMPLE TiO₂-WORKPLACES Thomas A.J. Kuhlbusch, Christof Asbach, Heinz Kaminski, Heinz Fissan Institute of Energy and Environmental Technology (IUTA), Unit "Airborne Particles / Air Quality,Duisburg (Germany)
oral presentation 4	NANOSH - INFLAMMATORY AND GENOTOXIC EFFECTS OF ENGINEERED NANOMATERIALS Timo Tuomi¹, Harri Alenius¹, Hannu Norppa¹, Antti Tossavainen¹, Lea Pylkkänen¹, Fritz Krombach², Elżbieta Jankowska³, Małgorzata Pośniak Posniak³, Derk H. Brouwer⁴, Dave Mark⁵, Markus Berges⁶, Carsten Möhlmann⁶, Peter B. Farmer⁷, Raj Singh⁷ and Kai Savolainen¹ ¹Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki (Finland), ²Institute for Surgical Research, University of Munich (Germany), ³Central Institute for Labour Protection - National Research Institute, Warsaw (Poland), ⁴TNO - Quality of Life, Zeist (The Netherlands), ⁵Health and Safety Laboratory, Buxton (UK), ⁶Berufsgenossenschaftliches Institut für Arbeitsschutz, Sankt Augustin (Germany), ⁷Cancer Biomarkers and Prevention Group, Biocentre, Leicester (UK)
oral presentation 5	SENSITIVE AND PREDICTIVE BIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS IN SHORT-TERM INHALATION TEST WITH NANOPARTICLES Robert Landsiedel, Lan Ma-Hock, Silke Burkhardt, Volker Strauss, Armin Gamer, Karin Wiench and Bennard van Ravenzwaay BASF AG, Ludwigshafen (Germany)
oral presentation 6	UPTAKE OF 1.4 nm VERSUS 18 nm GOLD PARTICLES BY SECONDARY TARGET ORGANS IS SIZE DEPENDENT IN CONTROL AND PREGNANT RATS AFTER INTRATRACHEAL OR INTRAVENOUS APPLICATION M. Semmler-Behnke¹, S. Fertsch¹, G. Schmid², A. Wenk¹ and W.G. Kreyling¹. ¹GSF-Research Center for Environment + Health; Institute for Inhalation Biology, Neuherberg / Munich, Germany ²University of Essen; Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Essen (Germany)