Overview
Topic status: We're looking for students to study this topic.
The proposed project seeks to develop a sound scientific basis for the reliable and robust measurement of airborne engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) generated in a growing number of commercial and research facilities. Despite their presence in the air of many such facilities, there are currently no established and validated measurement methods to detect ENPs, characterise their properties or quantify their concentrations. This severely restricts our ability to accurately assess human exposures to these particles and their attendant health risks.
Hypothesis/Aims: The student will work on the experimental and theoretical aspects of the techniques for nanoparticle characterisation, and the dynamics of particle dispersion and transport in an indoor environment. The work will include quantification of particle release into the air, as well as assessing the effect of generation processes on particle indoor concentration and human exposure at the particle source.
Approaches: The student will undertake his/her work within a multi-disciplinary team of practitioners and researchers in laboratories equipped with state of the art instrumentation. The first step of this work will be research into the detection capabilities of the existing real time techniques in relation to different types of airborne engineered nanoparticles. The work of this student will also encompass developing of an understanding of the relationship between key physicochemical characteristics of the particles.
- Study level
- Honours
- Supervisors
- QUT
- Organisational unit
Science and Engineering Faculty
- Research area
- Contact
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Please contact the supervisor.
Professor Lidia Morawska
