Green Nanomaterials for Industrial Applications

Green Nanomaterials for Industrial Applications explores the applications of nanomaterials for a variety of industry sectors, along with their environmental impacts, lifecycle analysis, safety and sustainability. This book brings together the industrial applications of nanomaterials, covering new trends and challenges. Significant properties, safety and sustainability and environmental impacts of synthesis routes are also explored, as are major industrial applications, including agriculture, medicine, communications, construction, energy, and in the military. This book is an important information source for those in research and development who want to gain a greater understanding of how nanotechnology is being used to create cheaper, more efficient products. Green nanomaterials have significant advantages including low cost, high efficiency, neutral environmental impact, and stability. Green Nanomaterials for Industrial Applications provides comprehensive information about green nanomaterials, their types, and methods for generation, characterization as well as their properties. Furthermore, this book also provides coverage of industrial scale fabrication methods for green nanomaterials and their applications for various industrial sectors at both experimental and theoretical models scales. This book is an important reference source for materials scientists, engineers and environmental scientists who want to learn more about how sustainable nanomaterials are being used in a range of industrial applications.

Uma Shanker’s research focuses on green and sustainable synthesis of various types of nanomaterials and explores their applications in environmental remediation. The main areas of research of Dr Shanker and his group are Environmental Nanotechnology, Photocatalysis, Green Chemistry, and Environmental Analytical Chemistry. Dr Shanker has published more than 60 research/review articles in the area of green nanomaterials and their environmental applications. The Editors have successfully edited four books of international repute. Out of four books, two are for Elsevier, one for CRC press and one for Springer. Dr Shanker has also published 37 book chapters. Dr Shanker has more than 2600 citations with h-index 29 and i-10 index 48 (as per google scholar). Dr Shanker has more than ten years of experience of research and teaching. Manviri Rani is an expert in analytical method developments for various persistent organic pollutants. Her areas of research are analytical chemistry, environmental and green chemistry, persistent organic pollutants, plastic polymers and associated chemicals, chromatographic analysis, pesticide and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon analysis, solvent extraction, environment & health, and nanochemistry. Dr. Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain is an adjunct professor and director of laboratories in the Department of Chemistry & Environmental Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, New Jersey, United States. His research is focused on the applications of nanotechnology and advanced materials, environmental management, analytical chemistry, and other various industries. Dr. Hussain is the author of numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as a prolific author and editor of around One hundred and fifty (150) books, including scientific monographs and handbooks in his research areas. He has published with ELSEVIER, American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, CRC Press, and Springer.