Nanomaterials and Nanocomposites for Environmental Remediation

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2. Nanomaterials and Nanocomposites for Environmental Remediation

   • Swatantra P. Singh, Karthik Rathinam, Tarun Gupta, Avinash Kumar Agarwal

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3. Carbon Nanomaterials: A Prominent Emerging Materials Towards Environmental Pollution Study and Control

   • Shivangi Mishra, D. P. Mondal, Pradip Kumar, Shiv Singh

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4. Titanium Oxide Composites with Graphene and Laser-Induced Graphene for the Environmental Applications

   • Ashish Kumar, Simant Kumar Srivastav, Kamlesh Kumar Singh, Swatantra P. Singh

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5. Metal and Carbon-Based Nanomaterials for the Water Disinfection

   • Nandini Dixit, Amritanshu Shriwastav, Swatantra P. Singh

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6. Application of g-C3N4-based Materials for the Efficient Removal and Degradation of Pollutants in Water and Wastewater Treatment

   • Karthik Rathinam, Meenakshi M. Nara, Ibrahim M. A. ElSherbiny, Imran Ali, Stefan Panglisch

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7. Application of Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles as Potential Antibacterial Agents

   • Chinmoy Mandal, Manoranjan Sahu

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8. Perovskite BiFeO3 Nanostructure Photocatalysts for Degradation of Organic Pollutants

   • Simant Kumar Srivastav, Swatantra P. Singh, Kamlesh Kumar

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9. Photocatalysis for the Removal of Environmental Contaminants

   • Sukanya Krishnan, Ansaf V. Karim, Amritanshu Shriwastav

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10. Technological Advancement in Photocatalytic Degradation of Dyes Using Metal-Doped Biopolymeric Composites—Present and Future Perspectives

    • Palliyalil Sirajudheen, Sivakumar Vigneshwaran, Perumal Karthikeyan, Chettithodi Poovathumkuzhi Nabeena, Sankaran Meenakshi

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11. Metal Organic Frameworks for Removal of Heavy Metal Cations and Emerging Organic Pollutants

    • Kamlesh Kumar, Simant Kumar Srivastav, Swatantra P. Singh

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12. Advanced Oxidation Processes: A Promising Route for Abatement of Emerging Contaminants in Water

    • Tadimeti Divya Kusuma, M. S. V. Naga Jyothi, Chebrolu Pulla Rao, Shihabudheen M. Maliyekkal

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13. Surfaces and Modified Surfaces for Controlling the Pollution: Different Approaches

    • Shiju Abraham

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This monograph focuses on recent development of nanomaterials and nanocomposites for pollution measurement and their control in water, air, and soil. The contents incorporate carbon-based, metal-based, and metal-organic framework based nanomaterials and nanocomposites for emerging contaminants (pharmaceuticals and personal care products) degradation, disinfection, and other traditional pollutants degradation and removal. The book also offers updated literature for researchers and academicians working in the field of environmental remediation by nanomaterials. Readers will learn about different metal and non-metal based nanoparticles for environmental remediation. It will be a useful guide for professionals, and post-graduate students involved in material science & engineering, chemical engineering and environmental nanotechnology research.

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• Water Pollution
• Nanomaterials
• Nanocomposites
• Emerging Contaminants
• Nanotechnology

• Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

  Swatantra P. Singh

• Mechanical Process Engineering/Water Technology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

  Karthik Rathinam

• Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India

  Tarun Gupta

• Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India

  Avinash Kumar Agarwal

Dr. Swatantra Pratap Singh is an environmental engineer with experience in membrane fabrication, environmental nanotechnology, fate, and transport of pollutants and emerging contaminants in the environment. Currently, he is an assistant professor in the Environmental Science and Engineering Department at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. He has developed a key technology to fabricate the membranes for water purification and print graphene in-situ in a single step. He has four US patents (two granted and two provisional) on membrane and laser-based graphene fabrication techniques. He has authored 19 journal articles, one book, and three book chapters. He recently won the INAE Young Engineer Award (2020) and ISEES Young Scientists Award (2020).

Dr. Karthik Rathinam is currently leading adsorption technology group at the Chair for Process and Mechanical Engineering/Water Technology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. His research interest is mainly focused on water and wastewater treatment including precipitation of inorganic minerals, development of antiscaling and antifouling membranes, development of porous eco-friendly based adsorbents, thermal reactivation of activated carbon, emerging contaminants removal, etc. After his Ph.D. from the Gandhigram Rural Institute, India, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Israel and BASF-SE, Germany. He is serving as a reviewer for several Scopus indexed journals. He is a recipient of many national and international awards and has published 18 research articles in a highly reputed peer-reviewed journals and one book chapter.

Prof. Tarun Gupta is doctorate from Harvard University, USA, and M.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, India. He has authored more than 125 ISI indexed journal publications, 3 books, 10 book chapters, 4 patents, and has been reviewer of morethan 36 journals. He has guided 6 Ph.D. and 34 M.Tech. theses. A submicron aerosol sampler designed, developed and evaluated by him at IIT Kanpur has been commercialized by Envirotech. He has developed a high volume fine PM sampler and transferred technology to BARC. He is currently P. K. Kelkar research fellow and selected member of INYAS and INAE Associate. He has recently won INAE Innovator and Entrepreneur Award (2018), VNMM award (2017), NASI-SCOPUS Award (2015), INSA Medal for Young Scientist (2011), INAE Young Engineer Award (2009) and IEI Young Engineer Award (2008). He is currently N C Nigam Chair Professor and serving as Associate Dean of Research and Development at IIT Kanpur.

Prof. Avinash Kumar Agarwal joined the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India in 2001 after working as a post-doctoral fellow at the Engine Research Center, University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA. His interests are IC engines, combustion, alternate and conventional fuels, lubricating oil tribology, optical diagnostics, laser ignition, HCCI, emissions and particulate control, and large bore engines. Prof. Agarwal has published 290+ peer reviewed international journal and conference papers, 42 edited books, 78 books chapters and has 10000+ Scopus and 15300+ Google scholar citations. He is a Fellow of SAE (2012), Fellow of ASME (2013), Fellow of ISEES (2015), Fellow of INAE (2015), Fellow of NASI (2018), Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (2018), and a Fellow of American Association of Advancement in Science (2020). He is recipient of several prestigious awards such as Clarivate Analytics India Citation Award-2017 in Engineering and Technology, NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award-2012; INAE Silver Jubilee Young Engineer Award-2012; Dr. C. V. Raman Young Teachers Award: 2011; SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award -2008; INSA Young Scientist Award-2007; UICT Young Scientist Award-2007; INAE Young Engineer Award-2005. Prof. Agarwal received Prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award-2016 in Engineering Sciences. For his outstanding contributions, Prof. Agarwal is conferred upon Sir J C Bose National Fellowship (2019) by SERB. 

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