
Nanotechnology-based Sensors for Detection of Environmental Pollution
- 1st Edition - May 8, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Fernanda Maria Policarpo Tonelli, Arpita Roy, Munir Ozturk, H C Ananda Murthy
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 4 1 1 8 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 4 1 1 9 - 5
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Request a sales quoteNanotechnology-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.
- 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
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
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 8, 2024
- No. of pages (Paperback): 638
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443141188
- eBook ISBN: 9780443141195
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Fernanda Maria Policarpo Tonelli
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Arpita Roy
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Munir Ozturk
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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.