INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM FOR ENVIRONMENT & NANOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH               


Established by EESI with the aid of the Office of  Science and Technology of the French Consulate-Houston, I-CENTR brings together Rice scholars with over thirty researchers from the global environmental and nanochemistry research communities who are actively engaged in research on developing new nanomaterials-based technologies for protecting human health and the environment, and in understanding how nanomaterials and nanomaterial production may affect our environment.  Current  projects include studies on: 

• Mobility of nanomaterials in aqueous environments
• Surface chemistry of mineral oxide and carbon nanoparticles
• Development of nanostructured membranes
• Mechanisms of nanoparticle bio-degradation
• Development of nanostructured ceramic bodies for environmental separations and catalysis nanomaterial-based adsorbents for water treatment
• Possible mutagenic properties of nanoparticles 
• Nanoparticle bioaccumulation