ABSTRACT
Environmental nanotechnology is the creation of ecofriendly products for cleaning existing pollution and improving manufacturing methods to reduce pollution, making alternative energies more cost effective. The chapter discusses issues relating to low pollution levels during manufacturing processes using silver nanoparticles and production of energy using solar cells of silicon nanowires, improvement in windmills through silicon-epoxy nanomaterials. The chapter discusses novel nanomaterials developed for the treatment of surface water, groundwater, wastewater, and other environmental materials contaminated by organic, inorganic, and toxic metal ions using carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes. Capturing carbon dioxide in power plant exhausts using nanostructured membranes is one of the cutting-edge tasks of environmental nanotechnology.
