Nanohybrid Materials for Water Purification

ISBN-13: 9789811923340 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Opis

This book comprehensively reviews the key topics in the area of nanocomposites and hybrid materials used for waste water treatment and purification. It covers materials chemistry, various synthesis approaches and properties of these nanomaterials for the different water purification techniques.  It provides new direction to the readers to better understand the chemistry behind these materials and the methods to improve their properties. This book will be a very valuable reference source for graduates and postgraduates, engineers, research scholars (primarily in the field of material science, water, nanoscience and nanotechnology), material scientists, researchers in the water-related area, scientists working in water treatment plans and pollution mitigation industries. 

Spis treści

Water purification: Past to present.- Introduction to Nanostructured Hybrid materials: Preparation, Function, and Application for Water Purification.- New Generation Nano-Based Adsorbents for Water Purification.- Hybrid materials Membranes for Water Purification.- Polymer/Carbon Nanotubes Mixed Matrix for Water Purification.- Water Treatment by polymeric hybrid Materials.- Water Purification by nanomaterials.- Nanocomposites for Heavy Metals Removal from water.- Nanocomposites for dye Removal from water.- Carbon Nanotube-Based composites for Water Purification.- Carbon nanofiber based composites for water purification.- Graphene Oxide Based Membranes for water purification.- Graphene-Based Materials for Water Purification.- Iron Oxide Nanomaterials for Water Purification.- Magnetic Nanoparticles for Water Purification.- Modifications of Magnetic Nanoparticles for Water Purification.- Metal Nanoparticles for Water Purification.- Photocatalytic Detoxification of nanocomposites for purification of Water.- LDH based nanocomposites for water purification.- Polysacharide based nanocomposites for water purification.- Water purification by nanostructured materials: A concluding remark.

O autorze

Prof. Sarat Kumar Swain is currently working as a Professor of Chemistry at Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT), Burla, Sambalpur, India since 2011. Prof. Swain was working as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA after receiving his Doctoral degree from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India.  He was also working as a visiting researcher at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata and Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced and Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore. Added to his credits, Prof. Swain was the former Dean (Academic Affairs), Dean (PG studies & Research) and Head of the Department of Chemistry of the VSSUT. He has more than twenty five years of experience in teaching and research in Organic Chemistry, Materials Science, Nanotechnology and Polymer Chemistry at UG, PG and PhD levels. His area of research interest includes hybrid nanomaterials, reinforced polymer nanocomposites, advance materials like graphene, nanoclay, CNT, CNF, CQD for improving of gas barrier, fire retardant, thermal, mechanical and chemical resistance properties of the composites. He has designed various kinds of nano structured materials for waste water treatment, packaging, anti-corrosion performance, superconductor properties, sensing behaviors and biomedical applications. There are sixteen scholars are successfully awarded PhD degree along with more than fifty master thesis are completed with supervision of Prof. Swain. He has published more than 100 research papers in different SCI indexed international journals of repute. So far he has authored/edited 04 books, 35 book chapters, along with inventions of two patents (One USA and One Indian). Prof. Swain has received BOYSCAST Fellowship, DAE-Young Scientist Research Award and Samanta Chandra Sekhar Award for various academic achievements.