Sustainable Nanomaterials provides core and advanced information about various sustainable nanomaterials and their synthetic approaches to natural and renewable resources. It summarizes various regulatory initiatives for ensuring sustainability goals and legal aspects of sustainable nanomaterials.
This book also addresses potential nanomaterial risks and concludes that green nanotechnology is a concept that needs to be embedded and promoted in regulatory and voluntary initiatives to ensure nanotechnology’s sustainable development.
This is a useful resource for advanced students, as well as environmental engineers, researchers, and the environmental industry.
Section 1: Fundamentals and basics of green and sustainable nanomaterials 1. Engineered nanomaterials: Fundamentals and recent updates 2. Green nanomaterials for future applications: Classification 3. Environmental friendly and sustainable nanotechnology: Fundamentals Section 2: Fabrication strategies of sustainable nanomaterials 4. Green nanomaterials synthesis methodologies: Fundamentals and recent updates 5. Ionic liquids mediated green synthesis of nanomaterials 6. Methods for the conversion of biomass waste into value-added carbon nanomaterials: Recent progress and applications Section 3: Recent advances for industrial applications of sustainable nanomaterials 7. Modern applications and current status of green nanotechnology in environmental industry 8. Green production of nanomaterials and their application as sensors industries 9. Sustainable Application of Nanomaterial for Finishing of Textile Material Section 4: Sustainable nanomaterials for energy and environmental applications 10. Recent updates on applications of Green and sustainable nanomaterials for energy and environment 11. Green and sustainable metal hexacyanoferrate nanomaterials for eradication of traditional and emerging contaminants Section 5: Strategies for Green Innovation through Nanotechnology 12. Towards safe and sustainable innovation in nanotechnology: State-of-play for smart nanomaterials 13. Effects of green manufacturing and technological innovations on sustainable development Section 6: Environmental health and safety aspects of sustainable nanomaterials 14. Green Nanomaterials: Environment, Health and Safety Aspects 15. Assessment of health, safety, and economics of surface-modified nanomaterials 16. Analytical and toxicological aspects of nanomaterials in different product groups: Challenges and opportunities Section 7: Biomedical applications of green nanomaterials: Convergence of green technologies 17. Research trends in biomedical applications of green nanomaterials 18. Biomedical and sensing applications of nanomaterial-incorporated hydrogels Section 8: Challenges in assessing the impact of green nanotechnology for environmental sustainability 19. An updated analysis of environmental sustainability metrics applied to green synthesis of nanomaterials and the assessment of environmental risks associated with the nanotechnology 20. The economic contributions of nanotechnology to green and sustainable growth 21. The Road to Sustainable Nanotechnology: Challenges, Progress and Opportunities Section 9: Regulatory issues and legal aspect of sustainable nanomaterials 22. Sustainable nanomaterials: selected legal and regulatory issues 23. Regulatory landscape of nanotechnology and nanoplastics from a global perspective
Dr. Manviri Rani is an Assistant Professor at Department of Chemistry, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Her research interests include green nanotechnology, environmental nanotechnology and analytical chemistry. Dr. Rani has been featured amongst the top 2% of the scientists around the globe, as per the report of Stanford University USA and Elsevier. Dr. Uma Shanker is an Associate Professor, in the Department of Chemistry, B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. His research interests include green nanotechnology, environmental remediation and organic chemistry. Dr. Shanker has been featured amongst the top 2% of the scientists around the globe, as per the report of Stanford University USA and Elsevier.