New University of Wisconsin-led NSF Center for Chemical Innovation taps PNNL expertise
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Category: ResearchType: News
Source: PNNL
Date: Wednesday, October 17th, 2012
October 17, 2012 
EMSL scientist Galya Orr to help Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology investigate nanoparticles inside organisms
RICHLAND, Wash. - Nanoparticles hundreds times smaller than the width of a hair are more and more a part of people's daily lives. Used in everything from car coatings to clothes to cosmetics, little is known about their safety in the environment.
Chemist Robert Hamers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is leading a multi-institutional effort to gain new understanding about nanomaterials, especially how they get into cells and tiny organisms such as those found in freshwater lakes.
A D.O.E.'s Pacific Northwest National Lab scientist, Galya Orr has been using and improving high resolution microscopy at EMSL, DOE's Environmental Molecular Sciences Lab at PNNL. She will be applying the expertise she's gained from studying how nanoparticles enter lung cells found lining our airways.
Orr is also a member of PNNL's NIEHS Center for Nanotoxicology, one of 5 NIH-funded groups nationally that looks for to understand how manmade nanomaterials interact with biological tissues.
Read more about the $1.75 million plan here.
Tags: Fundamental Science, Nanoscience
EMSL, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Lab, is a national scientific user facility sponsored by the D.O.E.'s Office of Science. Located at Pacific Northwest National Lab in Richland, Wash., EMSL offers an open, collaborative environment for scientific discovery to researchers around the world. Its integrated computational and experimental resources enable researchers to realize important scientific insights and create new technologies. Follow EMSL on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
Interdisciplinary teams at Pacific Northwest National Lab address many of America's most pressing issues in energy, the environment and national security through advances in basic and applied science. PNNL employs 4,500 staff, has an yearly budget of nearly $1 billion, and has been managed for the D.O.E. by Ohio-based Battelle since the laboratory's inception in 1965. For more, visit the PNNL's News Center, or follow PNNL on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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