Event
Quantification and Identification of Nanoparticles in Consumer Products and the Environment
Tuesday, June 27, 2017 11:00to12:00
Macdonald Engineering Building
Room 267, 817 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C3, CA
Price:
Free
A free TISED-hosted seminar by Dr. Frank von der Kammer (Senior Scientist, University of Vienna) | no registration required!Â
Seminar abstract
The analysis of engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) in consumer products and environmental compartments requires different approaches and has to answer fundamentally different questions. While in products it might be required to produce a quantitative particle size distribution of a known ingredient which is present in comparable high concentrations, analysis in the environment requires the identification of an ENP to be of industrial, manufactured origin often at very low concentrations. This presentation will summarize the results from method development and is aiming to critically assess the different advantages and drawbacks of the methodologies for the different tasks in cosmetics, food and environmental sectors.
About Dr. von der Kammer
 completed his PhD in 2005 with highest honour at Hamburg University of Technology, in the Department of Environmental Science and Technology. He is currently senior scientist and lecturer, the Head of Nanogeosciences Division and vice Head of the Department for Environmental Geosciences at the University of Vienna. In the past, Frank has acted as a visiting Professor at the University of Pau and at the University of Aix-Marseille, France.
Frank’s research interests include environmental colloids, their dynamic behaviour and interaction with trace elements, natural nano-scale processes, nanoparticle characterization, engineered nanoparticles in the environment and the application of field flow fractionation to characterize nanoparticles in complex samples. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers within both nano research and nanoparticle characterization.