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Environmental Nanotechnology
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Project Summary:
- In this GLE project, DePaul students in an Inorganic Chemistry course collaborated with students in a Nanotechnology and Environment course at São Paulo State University in Sorocaba, Brazil. This GLE project was developed with a focus on environmental
nanotechnology, with the intention to share a global view of chemistry, and to
share São Paulo State University professor, Dr. Faceto’s expertise in nanotechnology with both groups of
students. After learning more about their international partners through personal
sharing in D2L, both groups of students conducted in-lab experimental work in
their respective labs and met over Zoom to discuss their ideas. They
collaborated to create an infographic about how nanomaterials affect global
society. They also met synchronously to present their findings on the
synthesization and characterization of nanoparticles, and to discuss and
compare their results.
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- Students interacted online in a collaborative group with students in another country (Chicago, USA and Sorocaba, Brazil).
- Students discussed the definitions of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology with peers and students from another country.
- Students synthesized silver nanoparticles and chitosan triphosphate nanoparticles.
- Students characterized nanoparticles using one or more techniques.
- Students presented the results of the nanoparticle synthesis in characterization in a short presentation.
- Students collaboratively created a short presentation on background information about a technique used to characterize nanomaterials.
- Students collaboratively created a one-page infographic about the applications, environmental impacts, or public perception of nanotechnology.
An article regarding this project can be found here https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/bk-2020-1371.ch005
Kyle Grice
Institution: DePaul University
Discipline: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Course name: Inorganic Chemistry
Leonardo Fraceto
Institution: São Paulo State University
Discipline: Environmental Engineering
Course name: Environmental Nanotechnology