Overview
- Presents the fundamentals and applications of nanomaterials for water treatment and purification
- Covers materials chemistry, various synthesis approaches, and properties of these nanomaterials
- Provides new directions using materials chemistry and synthesis to improve properties
Part of the book series: Composites Science and Technology (CST)
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About this book
This book comprehensively reviews the key topics in the area of nanocomposites and hybrid materials used for waste water treatment and purification. It covers materials chemistry, various synthesis approaches and properties of these nanomaterials for the different water purification techniques. It provides new direction to the readers to better understand the chemistry behind these materials and the methods to improve their properties. This book will be a very valuable reference source for graduates and postgraduates, engineers, research scholars (primarily in the field of material science, water, nanoscience and nanotechnology), material scientists, researchers in the water-related area, scientists working in water treatment plans and pollution mitigation industries.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Prof. Sarat Kumar Swain is currently working as a Professor of Chemistry at Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT), Burla, Sambalpur, India since 2011. Prof. Swain was working as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA after receiving his Doctoral degree from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India. He was also working as a visiting researcher at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata and Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced and Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore. Added to his credits, Prof. Swain was the former Dean (Academic Affairs), Dean (PG studies & Research) and Head of the Department of Chemistry of the VSSUT. He has more than twenty five years of experience in teaching and research in Organic Chemistry, Materials Science, Nanotechnology and Polymer Chemistry at UG, PG and PhD levels. His area of research interest includes hybrid nanomaterials, reinforced polymer nanocomposites, advance materials like graphene, nanoclay, CNT, CNF, CQD for improving of gas barrier, fire retardant, thermal, mechanical and chemical resistance properties of the composites. He has designed various kinds of nano structured materials for waste water treatment, packaging, anti-corrosion performance, superconductor properties, sensing behaviors and biomedical applications. There are sixteen scholars are successfully awarded PhD degree along with more than fifty master thesis are completed with supervision of Prof. Swain. He has published more than 100 research papers in different SCI indexed international journals of repute. So far he has authored/edited 04 books, 35 book chapters, along with inventions of two patents (One USA and One Indian). Prof. Swain has received BOYSCAST Fellowship, DAE-Young Scientist Research Award and Samanta Chandra Sekhar Award for various academic achievements.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nanohybrid Materials for Water Purification
Editors: Sarat K. Swain
Series Title: Composites Science and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2332-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-2331-9Published: 13 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-2334-0Published: 14 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-2332-6Published: 12 August 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-1819
Series E-ISSN: 2662-1827
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 330
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 86 illustrations in colour
Topics: Structural Materials, Water, general, Environmental Chemistry