Nanomaterials and Environment

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	English
Code	660-0201/02
Abbreviation	NaŽP
Course title	Nanomaterials and Environment
Credits	6
Coordinating department	Centre for Advanced Innovation Technologies
Course coordinator	Prof. Mgr. Jana Kukutschová, Ph.D.

Osnova předmětu

1. Introduction to nanomaterials and nanotechnology.
2. Selected environmental applications of nanomaterials in environmental protection, biomedicine, transport, etc.
3. Nanomaterials as byproducts of anthropogenic activities.
4. Potentially risk parameters of nanomaterials (NM).
5. Fate of nanomaterials in the environment (transport of NM, Biotransformation, bioaccumulation, deposition).
6. Air contamination issues.
7. Water contamination issues.
8. Soil contamination issues.
9. Nanomaterials as wastes.
10. Effect of nanomaterials on living organisms (mechanisms of entry into the organism, transport and transformation, effects at organ, cellular and molecular level).
11. Ethical aspects the use of nanomaterial use.
12. Legislative framework for the use of nanomaterials.

Povinná literatura

FILIPOVÁ, Zuzana, Jana KUKUTSCHOVÁ a Miroslav MAŠLÁŇ. Rizika nanomateriálů. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2012, 87 s. Učebnice. ISBN 978-80-244-3201-4.
HOUDY P. Nanoethics and Nanotoxicology. Springer, 2011. .
THEODORE L. and KUNZ R. G. Nanotechnology: Environmental Implications and Solutions. Wiley & Sons, 2005. .

Doporučená literatura

VOGEL, Ulla, ed. Handbook of nanosafety: measurement, exposure and toxicology. London: Elsevier Academic Press, c2014. ISBN 978-0-12-416604-2.
DHAWAN, Alok, Diana ANDERSON a Rishi SHANKER, ed. Nanotoxicology: experimental and computational perspectives. Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018. ISBN 978-1-78262-158-4.

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