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Nanomaterials for Air Remediation

  • 1st Edition - January 22, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Abdeltif Amrane, Aymen Amine Assadi, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Sami Rtimi, Phuong Nguyen-Tri
  • Language: English

Nanomaterials for Air Remediation provides a comprehensive description of basic knowledge and current research progress in the field of air treatment using nanomaterials. The book… Read more

Description

Nanomaterials for Air Remediation provides a comprehensive description of basic knowledge and current research progress in the field of air treatment using nanomaterials. The book explores how nanomaterials are used in various air remediation techniques, including advanced oxidation processes, biological processes, and filtration. It also covers their combined use as nanocatalysts, nanoantibiotics, nanoadsorbents, nanocontainers, nanofiltrations and nanosensors. Major challenges to using nanomaterials for improving air quality on a mass scale, both practical and regulatory, are also presented. This is an important resource for materials scientists and environmental engineers who are looking to understand how nanotechnology is used to enhance air quality.

Key features

  • Includes coverage of a wide range of nanomaterials, from biochemical to chemical materials, and nanomaterials supported photocatalysts
  • Discusses how the properties of nanomaterials are being used to make more efficient air purification systems and products
  • Assesses the practical and regulatory challenges of using different types of nanomaterials for air remediation

Readership

Academics and R&D industry researchers in the fields of materials science and environmental engineering

Table of contents

1. Air quality monitoring using nanosensors

2. Smart nanosensors and methods for detection of nanoparticles and their potential toxicity in air

3. Nanocatalyst-based advanced oxidation processes

4. Nano-photocatalysis in advanced oxidation processes

5. Biotechnological applications of nanomaterials for indoor air treatment

6. Air treatment by absorption on nanoparticles

7. Nanofiltration/nanostructured membranes

8. Immobilization of hybrid nanoparticles in filtration membrane structures

9. Membranes based on carbon nanotubes

10. Antibacterial air filter using nanomaterials

11. Advanced nanomaterials for the adsorption of toxic gases

12. Nano- Metal Organic Frameworks (MOF) for gas adsorption

13. Combined cold plasma treatment and photocatalytic nanomaterials

14. Biological and physicochemical combination processes

15. Biological treatment followed by physical methods (ozonation, photolysis)

16. Future scope

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 6, 2020
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Abdeltif Amrane

Amrane Abdeltif is Professor in the ENSCR – Laboratory UMR CNRS 6226 Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, France. His research area of interest is fermentation and biological treatment processes, optimisation, modelization, environmental bioengineering, fungal physiology, gas treatment, and wastewater treatment.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, University of Rennes 1, Institute of Chemical Sciences of Rennes, Rennes, France.

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Aymen Amine Assadi

Aymen Amine Assadi is Associate Professor in the the ENSCR – Laboratory UMR CNRS 6226 Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, France. His area of interest is in chemical and environmental engineering, including water gas treatment, coupling of process, adsorption and isotherms on activated carbon, modeling and simulations for water/air treatment with POA, aerodynamics and mass and heat transfer and chemical reactions.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, University of Rennes, ENSCR/UMR CNRS, Allée de Beaulieu, Rennes, France

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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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Sami Rtimi

Dr. Sami Rtimi, PhD is Scientific Advisor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). He is an expert in thin film design and preparation for self-sterilizing and self-cleaning applications. Dr. Rtimi has authored several peer-reviewed studies and reviews, book chapters, patents, and presented at several international meetings & conferences. He is an experienced editor of Elsevier books and has served as guest editor for several special journal issues in his area of expertise.
Affiliations and expertise
Scientist, Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

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Phuong Nguyen-Tri

Phuong Nguyen-Tri is a full professor and director of the graduate program in energies and material science at the Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Physics, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR), Québec, Canada. He is the founder of the Laboratory of Advanced Materials for Energy and Environment (Nguyen-Tri Lab) at UQTR and holds the UQTR Research Chair of Advanced Materials for Health and Security at Work. His main research interests are nanomaterials, hybrid nanoparticles, innovative coatings, polymer crystallization, polymer aging, and polymer blends and composites.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Departement de Chimie, Biochimie et Physique, Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres, Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada

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