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Nanoclay-Based Sustainable Materials

Functional Properties, Characterization, and Multifaceted Applications

  • 1st Edition - August 15, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Vinod V. T. Padil
  • Language: English

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Description

Nanoclay-based Sustainable Materials: Functional Properties, Characterization, and Multifaceted Applications provides a detailed overview of the preparation, processing, and application of earth-abundant nanoclay fillers. The book encompasses the critical applications of nanoclays, comprising emerging themes such as environmental bioremediation, energy harvesting and storage, bio-sensing (both medical and ecological), catalysis, antimicrobial, and biomedical applications, such as drug delivery, tissue engineering and wound healing, nanomedicine, and much more.

This book is an important reference source for all those who are working in the research and development sector and need to learn more about nanoclay-based materials for sustainable development.

Key features

  • Features fundamentals and state-of-the-art developments in the field of nanoclays, providing an overview on their classification, preparation and properties
  • Explores the deployment and application of nanoclays in water treatment, biomedical applications, energy storage and harvesting, and environmental remediation, among others
  • Discusses advancements of nanoclays and present challenges and future possibilities for innovative applications

Readership

Academic and industrial researchers working in the field of application of nanotechnology for sustainable development and global sustainability

Table of contents

1. Nanoclays, classification, and their properties

2. Nanoclay-Polymer Composites: preparation, properties, and applications

3. Biomedical applications of nanoclays

4. Nanoclay-based active food packaging systems and their toxicity evaluations.

5. Review on development of natural rubber/nanoclay nanocomposites

6. Nanoclay-reinforced polymers

7. Advances in nanoclay-based drug delivery systems and their therapeutic potential

8. The role of nanoclays on the properties and performance of soil and construction materials: A comprehensive review

9. Nanoclay for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

10. Nanoclays for environmental remediation

11. Sustainable Processing Route to Clay-Polymer Nanocomposites- A Review

12. Energy storage and harvesting appliance of nanoclay composites

13. Nanoclay-based green polymeric composites: preparation, and properties

14. The Possibility of Nanoclays for Water Remediation and Biofuel Synthesis: A Review

15. Electrospinning of nanoclay reinforced bio-based composites and their applications in biomedical domains

16. 3D printing of nanoclay green composites

17. Contribution of nanoclay towards sustainable agriculture

18. Nanoclay as multifaceted drug-delivery carriers

19. Nanoclay reinforcement in Bioimplants and Epoxies: Properties and Applications

20. Cosmetic and religious applications of natural nanoclay: An Indian scenario

21. Nanoclay-polymer composites for lithium-ion batteries

22. Nanoclay-reinforced bio-composites and their packaging applications

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 15, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Vinod V. T. Padil

Dr. Vinod V. T. Padil is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Officer at the Institute for Nanomaterials, Advanced Technologies, and Innovation, at the Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic. He has over 30 years of multidisciplinary research experience in natural polymers, analytical chemistry, and nano and biobased materials. He received his Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Acharya Nagarjuna University, India. He worked as a scientific officer at the Board of Radiation and Isotope Technology (BRIT), Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), India, a postdoctoral fellow at the National University of Singapore, and visiting research fellow at Wrexham Glyndwr University, UK. His research interests include green synthesis of nanoparticles, environmental bioremediation using nanostructures, 2D/3D clay nanocomposites, electrospinning, and bioplastic fibers/films for food packaging applications. He featured in 2% of the world's most cited scientists by a group of authors associated with PLoS Biology, Elsevier, and Stanford University in 2019.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, The Institute for Nanomaterials, Advanced Technologies, and Innovation, Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic

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