ABSTRACT
This new volume presents informative research on the different aspects of employing nanotechnology for environmental pollution decontamination, highlighting the main tools, methods, and approaches for contaminants detection and remediation.
The book takes a biotechnological point of view that considers the main environmental pollutants; the safety and economic aspects of nanoremediation, nanosensors and nanobiosensors for the detection of pollutants; and strategies to promote nanoremediation and nanobioremediation. The chapters offer a comprehensive overview of nanotechnologic strategies as essential tools to restore polluted environments and to make more feasible and harmonic the pathway to sustainable development. The volume also discusses the use of sensors to detect pollutants and to monitor the quality of environmental restoration.
Topics include nanozymes; organic and inorganic pollutants threatening human health; different types of carbon-based and non-carbon-based nanomaterials in nanosensors and nanobiosensors to detect environmental pollution; nanomaterials that specifically deal with water, soil, or air pollution; and assisted nanoremediation promoted by plants (nanophytoremediation) or microorganisms (for example, mycorrhizal fungus) that promote in situ nano-phyto-mycorrhizo-remediation. Also addressed are aspects related to a macroperspective of nanoremediation that highlight the economic aspects related to nanotechnology, the safety aspects of the use of nanomaterials, and the sustainability aspects related to the use of nanomaterials in strategies of environmental restoration.
Nanotechnology for Environmental Pollution Decontamination: Tools, Methods, and Approaches for Detection and Remediation offers extensive and comprehensive knowledge on nanotechnology applied to pollution detection and remediation, assisted or not by biological strategies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|58 pages
Environmental Pollution
part II|95 pages
Nanotechnology and Nanosensors
chapter Chapter 4|34 pages
Nanotechnological Revolution: Carbon-Based Nanomaterials Detecting Pollutants
chapter Chapter 5|19 pages
Applying Noncarbon-Based Nanomaterials to Detect Environmental Contaminants
part III|143 pages
Nanotechnology and Nanobiosensors
chapter Chapter 8|44 pages
Nanobiosensors Containing Noncarbon-Based Nanomaterials to Assess Environmental Pollution Levels
chapter Chapter 9|35 pages
Carbon-Based Nanomaterials: Nanobiosensors Detecting Environmental Pollution
part IV|143 pages
Nanoremediation
chapter Chapter 11|64 pages
Carbonaceous Materials for Nanoremediation of Polluted and Nutrient-Depleted Soils
part V|42 pages
Nanobioremediation
chapter Chapter 13|24 pages
Nano-Phytoremediation: Using Plants and Nanomaterials to Environmental Pollution Remediation
part VI|41 pages
Nanomaterials Feasibility