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Silver Nanomaterials for Agri-Food Applications

  • 1st Edition - August 13, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Kamel A. Abd-Elsalam
  • Language: English

Silver Nanomaterials for Agri-Food Applications explores how silver-based nanomaterials are being used to create more efficient systems and products across the agri-food sector. I… Read more

Description

Silver Nanomaterials for Agri-Food Applications explores how silver-based nanomaterials are being used to create more efficient systems and products across the agri-food sector. In particular, the book covers silver nanomaterials as antimicrobial agents, in food science, for plant protection, and for water purification. Sections highlight the effect of silver nanoantimicrobials and drug synergism on drug-resistant pathogens, offer an overview of silver nanomaterials-based nanosensors in agri-food applications, explore the use of silver nanostructures in plant science applications, cover plant protection applications, describe silver nanomaterial applications in the removal of dyes and pesticides from wastewater, and more.

Key features

  • Explores the applications of silver-based nanomaterials for plant protection, water treatments, and in food science
  • Outlines why silver-based nanomaterials have properties that make them beneficial for protection against infectious diseases
  • Assesses the challenge of integrating silver-based nanomaterials into agricultural systems

Readership

Plant scientists, materials scientists and engineers

Table of contents

1 Silver-based nanomaterials for sustainable applications in agroecology: A note from the editor

SECTION I Antimicrobials

2 Silver-based nanostructures as antifungal agents: Mechanisms and applications

3 Antimicrobial properties of surface-functionalized silver nanoparticles

4 Silver-based nanoantimicrobials: Mechanisms, ecosafety, and future perspectives

SECTION II Food applications

5 Silver nanoparticles as nanomaterial-based nanosensors in agri-food sector

6 Silver-based nanomaterials for food packaging applications

7 Emerging silver nanomaterials for smart food packaging in combating food-borne pathogens

8 Novel silver-based nanomaterials for control of mycobiota and biocide analytical regulations in agri-food sector

SECTION III Plant science

9 Silver nanoparticle applications in wood, wood-based panels, and textiles

10 Immobilization efficiency and modulating abilities of silver nanoparticles on biochemical and nutritional parameters in plants: Possible mechanisms

11 Controlled-release and positive effects of silver nanoparticles: An overview

12 Comparison of the effect of silver nanoparticles and other nanoparticle types on the process of barley malting

13 Adverse effects of silver nanoparticles on crop plants and beneficial microbes

14 Silver nanoparticles phytotoxicity mechanisms

15 Complex physicochemical transformations of silver nanoparticles and their effects on agroecosystems

SECTION IV Plant protection applications

16 Detection and mineralization of pesticides using silver nanoparticles

17 Pesticide degradation by silver-based nanomaterials

18 Application of silver nanoparticles as a chemical sensor for detection of pesticides and metal ions in environmental samples

19 Applications of silver nanomaterial in agricultural pest control

20 Silver nanoparticles for insect control: Bioassays and mechanisms

21 Silver-based nanomaterials for plant diseases management: Today and future perspectives

22 Nematicidal activity of silver nanomaterials against plant-parasitic nematodes

23 Silver nanoparticles applications and ecotoxicology for controlling mycotoxins

SECTION V Water treatment and purification

24 Comparing the biosorption of ZnO and Ag nanomaterials by consortia of protozoan and bacterial species

25 Silver-doped metal ferrites for wastewater treatment

26 Silver-doped ternary compounds for wastewater remediation

SECTION VI Silver Nanoparticles in Veterinary Science

27 Potential of silver nanoparticles for veterinary applications in livestock performance and health

28 Silver nanoparticles in poultry health: Applications and toxicokinetic effects

29 Nanosilver-based strategy to control zoonotic viral pathogens

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 13, 2021
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Kamel A. Abd-Elsalam

Kamel A. Abd-Elsalam is currently a research professor at the Plant Pathology Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza. He earned his PhD in molecular plant pathology through a joint program between Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany, and Suez Canal University, Egypt, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Christian Albrechts University. His research focuses on nanobiotechnology applications in agriculture and plant protection, and he has authored numerous peer‑reviewed articles and edited books with major international publishers. His scientific contributions have been recognized nationally and regionally, including awards from the Federation of Arab Scientific Research Councils for research excellence in biotechnology and the Egyptian State Award for Agricultural Scientific Excellence from the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology. He has been recognized among the world’s top 2% most influential scientists in nanobiotechnology for three consecutive years (2021–2023), according to global rankings developed by Stanford University. Since 2019, he has served as the Editor-in-Chief of two Elsevier book series, Nanobiotechnology for Plant Protection and Genome Modified Plants and Microbes in Food and Agriculture.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Professor, Plant Pathology Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt

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