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Nanotechnology-based Sensors for Detection of Environmental Pollution

  • 1st Edition - May 8, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Fernanda Maria Policarpo Tonelli, Arpita Roy, Munir Ozturk, H. C. Ananda Murthy
  • Language: English

Nanotechnology-Based Sensors for Detection of Environmental Pollution discusses the use of nanotechnology to generate sensors capable of performing efficient detection of different… Read more

Description

Nanotechnology-Based Sensors for Detection of Environmental Pollution discusses the use of nanotechnology to generate sensors capable of performing efficient detection of different types of environmental pollutants. Sections explore environmental pollution as a threat to life on Earth, the main contaminants (inorganic, organic or pathogens), and the risk they represent to living beings. Others are dedicated to nanotechnology, allowing pollutants’ detection, a brief history of nanotechnology-based sensors, different types of nanotechnology-based sensor (optical, electrochemical, and magnetic), nanotechnology-based sensors’ design and fabrication, nano biosensors, and more.

Additional sections focus on important specific pollutants (pesticides, heavy metal, dyes, toxic gas, pharmaceutical waste, petroleum hydrocarbons, and pathogenic microbes) and their detection by nanotechnology-based sensors and important nanomaterials in nanotechnology-based sensors, exploring carbon-based and non-carbon-based material in nanoscale (graphene, carbon nanotubes, quantum dots, magnetic nanomaterials, non-magnetic nanoparticles) and also point-of-care sensors and functionalization to generate optimized nanotechnology-based sensors to pollutants’ detection.

Key features

  • Provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary review of nanotechnology-based sensors
  • Supplies readers extensive knowledge on detecting harmful pollutants in different environments using nanotechnology-based sensors
  • Presents chapters dedicated to the detection of pollutants different from toxic gas and pharmaceutical products, such as pesticides, heavy metals, dyes, pathogens, and petroleum hydrocarbons
  • Introduces information on pollutants and the threats they represent to living beings, nanotechnology-based sensor’s design and fabrication, a brief history of the field, and practical issues related to the field, such as economics, safety, and challenges

Readership

Researchers, scientists, instructors, undergraduate and graduate students that are interested in environmental pollution, nanoscience applied to pollutants’ detection, and biotechnology. Practitioners and professionals

Table of contents

Part 1 – Environmental contaminants

1. Environmental pollution: a worldwide threat

2. Main inorganic pollutants and their risk to living beings

3. Main organic pollutants and their risk to living beings

4. Main biological contaminants endangering humans’ health

5. The importance of detecting pollutants to sustainability

Part 2 – Nanotechnology and pollutants’ detection

6. Brief history of nanotechnology-based sensors

7. Optical nanotechnology-based sensors for environmental contaminants’ detection

8. Electrochemical nanotechnology-based sensors for environmental contaminants’ detection

9. Magnetic nanotechnology-based sensors for environmental contaminants’ detection

10. Nanotechnology-based sensors’ design and fabrication

11. Nano biosensors to detect environmental pollution

Part 3 - Relevant pollutants and their detection by nanotechnology-based sensors

12. Pesticides detection by nanotechnology-based sensors

13. Heavy metal detection by nanotechnology-based sensors

14. Dyes detection by nanotechnology-based sensors

15. Toxic gases detection by nanotechnology-based sensors

16. Pharmaceuticals and other emerging contaminants’ detection by nanotechnology-based sensors

17. Petroleum hydrocarbons detection by nanotechnology-based sensors

18. Pathogenic microbial contamination detection by nanotechnology-based sensors

Part 4 – Important nanomaterials in nanotechnology-based sensors

19. Graphene-based sensors to detect environmental contaminants

20. Carbon nanotubes-based sensors to detect environmental contaminants

21. Quantum dots-based sensors to detect environmental contaminants

22. Magnetic Nanomaterials-based sensors to detect environmental contaminants

23. Non-magnetic nanoparticles-based sensor to detect environmental contaminants

24. Point-of-care nanotechnology-based sensors for environmental pollutants

25. Functionalization of nanomaterials to generate optimized nanotechnology-based sensors to pollutants’ detection

Part 5 – Relevant practical aspects related to nanotechnology-based sensors

26. Advantages and challenges of nanotechnology-based sensors

27. Scientific barriers on exploiting the maximum performance from nanomaterial in sensors and feasible strategies to overcome difficulties

28. Safety on the Management of Nanomaterials

29. Nanomaterial’s biocompatibility

30. Economic and commercial aspects related to nanotechnology-based sensors

31. Sustainability and green nanomaterials on nanotechnology-based sensors

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 8, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Fernanda Maria Policarpo Tonelli

Dr. Fernanda Maria Policarpo Tonelli (Ph.D) is specialized in biotechnology/molecular biology and has been studying nanomaterials applications such as delivery and remediation. She has worked with engineered viral particles and nanomaterials functionalized by different protocols (gold nanorods, carbon nanotubes, carbon-dots, nanoparticles, nanographene oxide) that resulted in 10 patent applications. She teaches topics related to biochemistry and biotechnology/molecular biology to graduate students as an associate professor at Federal University of São João del Rei. Dr. Tonelli has edited and/or authored 3 books, has reviewed various articles/book proposals, has authored 12 scientific articles and more than 20 book chapters from international publishers. The main topics addressed in the publications are: nanomaterials, gene delivery strategies, remediation strategies and cell signaling. She has presented and participated in numerous national and international conferences and has also had the opportunity to contribute to the organization of various scientific events. Dr. Tonelli has also dedicated herself to promote Science and Technology co-funding an ONG with this purpose and also joining a scientific divulgation group composed only by women. She has had her efforts as a researcher recognized by various awards (including For Women in Science Brazil-L’Oreal/UNESCO/ABC and Under30 Brazil – Forbes) and certificates of merit.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor / Researcher, Federal University of São João del Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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Arpita Roy

Dr. Arpita Roy (Ph.D) is working as an Assistant Professor in Sharda University, Greater Noida, India. Her specialization is in plant biotechnology, nanobiotechnology, environmental biotechnology and microbiology. She has been teaching graduate and post graduate students of biotechnology. She has taught topics related to plant biotechnology, microbiology, bioprocess engineering and solid waste management. She has authored more than 50 scientific articles and 18 book chapters from international publishers and edited 2 books. She has presented and participated in numerous state, national and international conferences, seminars, workshops and symposium. She has received the Commendable Research Award for excellence in research during the year 2019 and 2020- DTU. She has served as editorial board member and reviewer of reputed international journals.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India

MO

Munir Ozturk

Dr. Munir Ozturk (Ph.D) holds Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees from the Ege University, Turkiye. He is currently acting as the “Vice President of the Islamic World Academy of Sciences”and is also Fellow of the Islamic World Academy of Science. Dr. Ozturk has been honored as the “Foreign Fellow Pakistan Academy of Science”. He has served at the Ege University-Turkiye for more than 50 years in different positions, has been Founder Director of the Centre for Environmental Studies, Ege University, and Chairman of the Botany Department and Director of the Botanical Garden. Sideritis ozturkii and Verbascum ozturkii are 2 newly recorded endemic plant species from Turkiye in his name. His fields of scientific interest are; pollution & biomonitoring; biosaline agriculture; plant ecophysiology, medicinal and aromatic plants conservation. Dr. Ozturk has published almost 60 books with internationally known publishers including Springer, Elsevier,Taylor & Francis, Wiley and few others. His biodata shows more than 90 book chapters and 200 papers in international journals; 120 with impact factor. He has also presented 125 papers at the International Meetings and 85 at the National Meetings. Dr. Munir has served as a guest editor for more than 13 journals; holds more than 20 Memberships of “Institutions and Professional Bodies”; has been recognized by more than 12 “National and International Bodies”; has received fellowships from the globally recognized Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Japanese Society for Promotion of Science, and the National Science Foundation of the USA. He has also worked as consultant fellow at the Faculty of Forestry, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia; and as Distinguished Visiting Scientist at International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences, ICCBS-TWAS, Karachi University, Pakistan.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor / Researcher, Ege University, Bornova Izmir, Turkey

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H. C. Ananda Murthy

H. C. Ananda Murthy is a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry in the Department of Applied Chemistry at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae, Papua New Guinea. His areas of research interest covers the synthesis and application of composite materials and nanomaterials for biomedical, sensor, and environmental applications.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Applied Chemistry, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae, Papua New Guinea

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