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Nano-Bioremediation: Fundamentals and Applications

  • 1st Edition - November 8, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Hafiz M. N. Iqbal, Muhammad Bilal, Tuan Anh Nguyen
  • Language: English

Nano-Bioremediation: Fundamentals and Applications explores how nano-bioremediation is used to remedy environmental pollutants. The book's chapters focus on the design, fabricati… Read more

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Nano-Bioremediation: Fundamentals and Applications explores how nano-bioremediation is used to remedy environmental pollutants. The book's chapters focus on the design, fabrication and application of advanced nanomaterials and their integration with biotechnological processes for the monitoring and treatment of pollutants in environmental matrices. It is an important reference source for materials scientists, engineers and environmental scientists who are looking to increase their understanding of bioremediation at the nanoscale. The mitigation of environmental pollution is the biggest challenge to researchers and the scientific community, hence this book provides answers to some important questions.

As an advanced hybrid technology, nano-bioremediation refers to the integration of nanomaterials and bioremediation for the remediation of pollutants. The rapid pace of urbanization, massive development of industrial sectors, and modern agricultural practices all cause a controlled or uncontrolled release of environmentally-related hazardous contaminants that are seriously threatening every key sphere, including the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, lithosphere, and anthroposphere.

Key features

  • Explores the current and potential applications of nano-bioremediation in the remediation of hazardous pollutants
  • Outlines the major properties and classes of nanomaterials that make them efficient bioremediation agents
  • Assesses the major challenges of effectively implementing bioremediation techniques at the nanoscale

Readership

Materials scientists and engineers

Table of contents

PART 1: BASIC PRINCIPLES

1. Nano-bioremediation: an introduction

2. Classification, potential routes, and risks of emerging pollutants

3. Characterization of nanomaterials used in nano-bioremediation

4. Nanotoxicity and antibacterial properties of nanomaterials, when used in nano-bioremediation

5. Interactions of nanomaterials with microbes

PART 2: NANOMATERIALS-BASED BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR AIR REMEDIATION

6. Nano-bioremediation for air remediation: an introduction

7. Bionanosensors to detect (and quantify) air pollutants (nanobiosensors for virus detection in the air)

8. Nanomaterials for biological membrane in filtration processes (immobilization of nanoparticles in the filtration of bio-membrane structures)

9. Bioremediation of air using microorganisms encapsulated within a nanoshell (nanocontainer/nanocapsule)

10. Nanomaterials in bioadsorbents for airborne particulate matter

11. Nano-bioremediation for indoor air treatment

12. Toxicity/risk assessment of nanomaterials when used in air remediation

13. Nanomaterials for biological- and physicochemical-combination processes

PART 3: NANOMATERIALS-BASED BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR WATER REMEDIATION

14. Nano-bioremediation for water remediation: an introduction

15. Nanostructured catalytic biomembranes for water filtration

16. Nano-biocatalysts for wastewater remediation and redefining of pollutants

17. Nano-biosorbents to remove contaminants from water matrices

18. Enzyme-linked nanomaterials to mitigate emerging contaminants

19. Toxicity/risk assessment of nanomaterials when used in water remediation

PART 4: NANOMATERIALS-BASED BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR SOIL REMEDIATION

20. Nano-bioremediation for soil remediation: an introduction

21. Soil contamination, risk assessment, and nano-bioremediation

22. Nanobiosensors for soil quality monitoring

23. Bioremediation of organic pesticides using nanomaterials

24. Nano-sorbents to remove heavy metal pollutants

25. Nano-bioremediation of insecticides and herbicides

26. Toxic risks of nanomaterials used in soil remediation

PART 5: CURRENT PILOT/INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS AND FUTURE SCOPE

27. Pilot scale treatment of environment using nano-bioremediation

28. Current challenges, research gaps, and measures

29. Enforcement and legislation

30. Future perspectives

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 8, 2021
  • Language: English

About the editors

HI

Hafiz M. N. Iqbal

Hafiz M.N. Iqbal is a Research Professor in the School of Engineering and Sciences at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. His areas of research are biomaterials, bioengineering, biomedical engineering, environmental engineering, bioremediation, bio-catalysis, enzymes, immobilization, chemical engineering, green chemistry, algal biotechnology, and bioenergy.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Professor, School of Engineering and Sciences, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico

MB

Muhammad Bilal

Muhammad Bilal is working as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland. Previously, he served as an assistant/associate Professor at Poznan University of Technology, Poland, and the School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian, China. He earned his Ph.D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, specializing in bioengineering and applied biotechnology. His main research activities are oriented to Environmental biotechnology, nanotechnology, enzyme engineering, immobilization, chemical modifications, and industrial applications of microbial enzymes, liquid, and solid waste management. He has authored over 700 peer-reviewed articles, 150 book chapters, 25 edited books. Dr. Bilal is the associate editor of Frontiers in Chemical Engineering and Frontiers in Environmental Science (Frontiers), and an editorial board member for several journals. He was listed as a highly cited researcher (Clarivate) in 2021 and holds several "highly cited papers" in WOS.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Sanitary Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland

TN

Tuan Anh Nguyen

Tuan Anh Nguyen is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam. He received a BS in physics from Hanoi University in 1992, a BS in economics from Hanoi National Economics University in 1997, and a PhD in chemistry from the Paris Diderot University, France, in 2003. He was a Visiting Scientist at Seoul National University, South Korea, in 2004, and the University of Wollongong, Australia, in 2005. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Research Scientist at Montana State University, United States in 2006-09. In 2012 he was appointed as the Head of the Microanalysis Department at the Institute for Tropical Technology. His research areas of interest include smart sensors, smart networks, smart hospitals, smart cities, complexiverse, and digital twins. He has edited more than 74 books for Elsevier, 12 books for CRC Press, 1 book for Springer, 1 book for RSC, and 2 books for IGI Global. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Kenkyu Journal of Nanotechnology & Nanoscience.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Principal Research Scientist, Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam

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