Nanotechnology for Environmental Engineering - Call for Papers

Nanotechnology in agriculture: Production, environmental impacts, and nano-enabled devices

Nano-science and nanotechnology hold a very promising future for agricultural productivity, disease suppression, targeted delivery of pesticides and fertilizers to curtail wastage, benefits to soil health, nano-enabled devices in precision agriculture, to name a few. Over the last few years, nano-plant interaction studies have been shifting gears towards the application as against the implication of nanotechnology in agriculture. The time calls for an attempt to draw focus on such a progress. Nanotechnology for Environmental Engineering of Springer is inviting research and review articles on phyto-nanotechnology and/or the benefits of nanotechnology in agriculture for the special issue "Nanotechnology in agriculture: Production, environmental impacts, and nano-enabled devices." The papers could deal with organic or inorganic nano-materials and under any of the following or related categories:
 

• Synthesis, characterization, and use of nano-materials in agriculture.
• The physiological, biochemical, and agronomical impacts of the application of nano-fertilizers/nano-pesticides on plants (full life cycle studies preferred).
• Use of nano-materials for targeted delivery of pesticides, fertilizers, and other agricultural amendments.
• Use of nanotechnology in nutrient and water allocation in agriculture and resultant impact on soil health.
• Nano sensors and smart agriculture.
• Nanotechnology and precision agriculture.

Submission deadline:  October 31, 2020

Guest Editor: 
Swati Rawat, PhD 
Toxicologist  
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality 
12100 Park 35 Circle, Austin, TX – 78753 
E-mail: srawat@miners.utep.edu

Associate Editor, NTEE
Jose R. Peralta-Videa, DSc, PhD 
The University of Texas at El Paso 
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry 
500 West University Ave, El Paso, TX - 79968 
E-mail: jperalta@utep.edu