This book reviews new advances in the field of nanomaterials; their synthesis, characterization, and applications. Specific topics include nanomaterials as catalysts, photodegradation of organic pollutants, multifunctional textiles, self-healing hydrogels, nanosensors for the detection of pathogens, machine learning based prosthesis, and various applications in the sports industry, the automobile sector, the area of defence and security, pharmaceuticals, energy storage and food packaging.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Nanomaterials
N.B. Singh
2. Metallic Nanomaterials as Catalysts
Md Jafar Sharif, M. Jakir Hossain
3. Green Chemical Synthesis in the Presence of Nanoparticles as Catalysts
Abeda Sultana Touchy, S.M.A. Hakim Siddiki
4. Emerging Nano-Enable Materials in the Sports Industry
Khandaker Tanzim Rahman, Tanvir Siddike Moin, Mohammed Farhad Mahmud Chowdhury, M. Nuruzzaman Khan
5. Nanocatalysts for the Photodegradation of Organic Pollutants
Md. Yeasin Pabel, Md. Fardin Ehsan, Muhammed Shah Miran, and Md. Mominul Islam
6. Nanomaterials in the Automobile Sector
Mohammad Harun-Ur-Rashid and Abu Bin Imran
7. Nanotechnology in Defence and Security
B.P. Choudhary, Bhuvnesh Kumar, S. Sharma, A.K. Sharma, R. Karmakar, N.B. Singh
8. Nanomaterials for Multifunctional Textiles
Kawser Parveen Chowdhury, Md. Abu Bin Hasan Susan, Saika Ahmed
9. Nanomaterials in Pharmaceuticals
Tahmina Foyez and Abu Bin Imran
10. Nanotechnology/Nanosensors for the Detection of Pathogens
Raju Ahmed, Mahmuda Nargis, Abu Bin Ihsan
11. Nanomaterials for Self-Healing Hydrogels
Md. Mahamudul Hasan Rumon, Stephen Don Sarkar, Md. Mahbub Alam and Chanchal Kumar Roy
12. Emerging Nanomaterials in Energy Storage
Aniruddha Mondal, Himadri Tanaya Das, Sudip Mondal, Vaishali N. Sonkusare and Ratiram Gomaji Chaudhary
13. Prospective Nanomaterials for Food Packaging and Safety
Mohammad Harun-Ur-Rashid, Israt Jahan, Abu Bin Imran and Md. Abu Bin Hasan Susan
14. Nanomaterials in Machine Learning Based Prosthesis
Deepali Salwan and Shri Kant
Author
Prof. N.B. Singh, former Head Chemistry Department and Former Dean Faculty of Science, DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur is presently Emeritus professor at Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Research Development Cell, Sharda University, Greater Noida, UP. Dr. Singh received the most prestigious Alexander von Humboldt fellowship (Germany) in 1977 and has worked at different universities in Germany. His main areas of research are Solid state chemistry, materials science, cement chemistry, thermodynamics, and water purification. He has published more than 300 research articles, 8 books, and more than 50 book chapters. Prof. Singh is president of Indian Association for Solid State Chemists and Allied Scientists Jammu and received many awards. His name appeared twice in the list of 2% scientists of world declared by Stanford University, USA.
Dr. Md. Abu Bin Hasan Susan, a Professor of Chemistry at Dhaka University, Bangladesh, received his Ph.D. degree from Yokohama National University, Japan in 2000 as a MEXT scholar and was awarded VBL, JSPS, CREST, and Bridge postdoctoral fellowships. He has 176 articles including 18 book chapters. He collaborates with 14 renowned laboratories and visited eleven countries. He was nominated for awards from FACS, in 2005 and ISESCO, in 2010. He received the Dean’s Award of the Faculty of Science, Dhaka University (2011), the UGC Awards of Bangladesh in 2011 and 2013, the United Group Paper Awards in 2016 and 2017, and the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences Gold Medal in 2012. He received the Silver Medal of the Society of Promotion of Education and Science, India in 2019. He is an Associate Editor of Spectrum of Emerging Sciences, an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences and Universal Journal of Electrochemistry, and the Journal of Scientific and Technical Research. He served as the National Representative of Division I of IUPAC. He has been a Fellow (2018) of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences and IUPAC (2016). His citations are 10,901, h-index- 30 and i-10 index- 79.
Dr. Ratiram Gomaji Chaudhary is presently working as Associate Professor and Head, Department of Chemistry, Seth Kesarimal Porwal College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Kamptee. His research areas are Biogenic Synthesis, Phytosynthesis, Metal oxide/Graphene-based nanohybrids, Toxic Dyes Degradations etc. He has been awarded two times with ‘Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship Award’ as JRF by UGC, New Delhi for pursuing MPhil and PhD degrees. He has published 3 books, 19 book chapters, and 102 regular articles, and 12 review articles in peer-reviewed SCI/Scopus indexing journals having Total Citations of 1351 with h_index 20. He is a recipient of several awards like ‘Best Researcher Award’, ‘Young Scientist Award’, ‘Outstanding Reviewer Award by IOP-VAST’, Mahatma Jyotirao Fule: State Level Best Researcher Award, etc. He worked as a Guest Editor for Scopus indexed journals Materials Today: Proceeding, Elsevier, and Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Current Pharmaceutical Design, and Current Nanosciences, Bentham Science.
