Our research focuses on the environmental and health implications of nanotechnology and the application of nanotechnology for water treatment, membrane processes, and environmental remediation.

Latest News: The ACS Colloids and Surfaces 2012 Symposium will be taking place at Johns Hopkins University. Kai Loon is the co-organizer of the Environmental session. Apr 2012 – Khanh An’s paper on heteroaggregation of multiwalled carbon nanotubes and hematite nanoparticles has been accepted by ES&T. Apr 2012 – Congratulations to Khanh An who has been awarded a 2012 Graduate Student Award in Environmental Chemistry by the ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry. Dec 2011 – Our multi-institutional review on the environmental fate and ecological risks of carbon nanotubes is published in ES&T.