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Metal Sulfide Nanomaterials for Environmental Applications

  • 1st Edition - October 24, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Peter R. Makgwane, Naveen Kumar
  • Language: English

Metal Sulfide Nanomaterials for Environmental Applications presents the fundamentals necessary to understand the latest developments and possibilities of applied use, specifica… Read more

Description

Metal Sulfide Nanomaterials for Environmental Applications presents the fundamentals necessary to understand the latest developments and possibilities of applied use, specifically for chemical detection/sensing and monitoring in air, soil, and water matrices as well as for chemical reaction engineering purposes (conversion, photocatalysis, adsorption) to facilitate removal of pollutants. Organic contaminants, volatile organic compounds, and heavy metals pose long-term threats to natural ecosystems and human health. Particularly in the last decade, metal sulfide nanomaterials have piqued researchers’ interest due to their outstanding physicochemical characteristics that make them amenable to modulation, as well as their qualitative and quantitative structure–activity relationship.

Key features

  • Offers up-to-date, state-of-the-art information on metal sulfide nanomaterials
  • Takes advantage of a structured and comprehensive approach to seamlessly combine theory and practical applications
  • Focuses on usability for environmental remediation, making its contents extremely valuable
  • Conceptualizes future implications at the end of each chapter

Readership

Academics and researchers, undergraduate and postgraduate students of programs on materials science and engineering; microtechnology and nanoscience; chemistry; environmental engineering for sustainability; environmental sciences; ecology and conservation. Part 1 of the book (i.e., fundamentals) could also be of particular interest for courses of all levels on many application areas of metal sulfide nanomaterials (MeSNs) not limited to biomedicine; cancer therapy; energy harvesting; electronic, optical, and optoelectronic devices, Professional nanomaterials engineers; applied scientists working in government or commercial industry; product developers in R&D laboratories working on pollution mitigation applications, but also in other sectors: biomedicine; cancer therapy; energy harvesting; semiconductor technologies

Table of contents

Part 1. Fundamentals of Metal Sulfide Nanomaterials

2. Substitutional structural modifications and optoelectronic properties of metal sulphide

3. Defects and band gap engineering in metalsulfides heterostructure nanomaterials

4. Conventional synthetic routes and structural characterization of metal sulphide nanomaterials

5. Advances in biogenic synthesis of metal sulfide nanomaterials

Part 2. Detection and Monitoring of Environmental Pollutants

6. Metal sulfide nanomaterials for gas sensing

7. Metal sulfide-based electrochemical sensors for the detection of organic water contaminants

8. Metal sulfide nanomaterial composites for electrochemical detection of heavy metal ions

Part 3. Removal of Environmental Pollutants

9. Interface dynamics in metal sulphides and metal oxides for photodegradation of organic contaminants

10. Carbon-metal sulfide nanomaterial photocatalysts for environmental remediation

11. Metal sulfide nanomaterial-based photocatalysts for remediation of gaseous air pollutants

12. Hybrid metal sulfide nanomaterials for the removal of heavy metal water contaminants

13. Recent advances in metal sulphide nanomaterials for antimicrobial activity and disinfection self-cleaning

14. Advances in sulfur-doped nanomaterials for environmental remediation

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 29, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Peter R. Makgwane

Peter R. Makgwane is a Principal Scientist at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa. Additionally, he serves as a visiting Extraordinary Professor in Chemistry at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

Affiliations and expertise
Principal Scientist, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa, and Visiting Extraordinary Professor in Chemistry, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

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Naveen Kumar

Dr. Naveen Kumar has 18 years of research experience and is currently working as Associate Professor in Department of Chemistry, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India, while holding other academic positions in the same institute. He is actively engaged in the field of material chemistry, with photocatalysis and luminescent materials as the focus of his research activities. He has published more than 55 articles in journals of high repute. At the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain, he also participated in an international research project, Development of a new generation CIGS-based solar cells [NANICIS-269279], in 2013 and 2014. He has been appointed as a reviewer for various reputed journals and was invited as guest editor by MPDI Catalyst (2021) for an issue on nanocatalysis and photocatalysis. He has presented research papers at national and international conferences and delivered lectures at various institutes. He is presently also working as a book editor for both Elsevier and CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana, India

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