Plenary Lecture
Nanotechnology Health Security Challenges in Mexico
Professor Armando Barranon
Dept. of Basic Sciences
UAM-Azcapotzalco
Mexico City, MEXICO
E-mail: bca@correo.azc.uam.mx
Abstract: Nanoparticles used in Mexican industries pose new challenges in terms of standards implemented to regulate the use and disposal of nanoparticles that should be handled in a sustainable way. While worldwide there is a need to elaborate new laws to secure a safe use of Nanotechnology in industrial settings, in Mexico there is a lack of undestanding about these new challenges. Mexican government has denied the Nanotechnology section of IMNC, the Mexican organization for implementing norms and standards, any authority to produce new norms related to nanotechnology. Nevertheless this Nanotechnology section of IMNRC participates voting new global laws for Nanotechnology, This is only an example of the lack of enforcement of sustainable laws for industrial applications of Nanotechnology in Mexico. Simmilar problems exist in mining, water disposal and other enviromental threats in Mexico. Nevertheless Baccalaureates in Nanotechnology have been implemented in many Mexican cities, which can be used in the future to educate new workers in Nanotechnology that could be used to develop a network of inspectors to enforce Nanotechnology security laws. Social unrest related to Nanotechnology threats has resulted in bombings of somre Mexican Universities where Nanotechnology is developed, which is a sign of the urgent need of a Nanoeducation program funded by Mexican Government, Industries and Civil Society. Also an example is given of optical applications designed in Mexico that are envorimentally safe, a method is designed and applied to design optical filters of Ultrafine particles. Particles by means of Lyapunov Function and intensive computation based on Parallel Threading where the a genetic algorithm is used to obtain the best grid of the holographic optical Tweezers in terms of the efficiency for trapping ultrafine particles of a given size. Applications for Mining and industrial atmosphere cleaning is discussed.
Brief Biography of the Speaker: Armando Barranon was born in Mexico City. B.Sc. in Mathematical Physics, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico City, 1986.
M.Sc. in Applied Statistics, The University of Texas at El Paso, 1989. Dr. in Philosophy, U. La Salle, Magna Cum Laude, Mexico City, 2004. M.Sc. Physics, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico City, 2005. Dr. in Physics of Materials, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico City, 2008.
Postdoctoral Fellow, U. Zacatecas, Mexico, 2008. Postdoctoral Fellow, U. of Texas at El Paso, 2009. Postdoctoral Fellow, CINVESTAV, 2009.
He is Full Professor at Department of Basic Sciences, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, Mexico City. Research interests include Nuclear Physics, Computational Physics and Philosophy of Technology. In 2007, Dr. Barranon founded the Nanoeducation Seminar at UAM-Azcapotzalco.
Dr. Barranon is member of the Mexican National Research System, Scientific Projects Evaluator of the Mexican Council of Science and Technology, member of American Physical Society, Sociedad Mexicana de Fisica, Sociedad Mexicana de Matematicas, Sociedad Mexicana de Termodinamica, Sociedad Mexicana de Historia de la Ciencia y la Tecnologia, among others.