Nano-phytoremediation and Environmental Pollution

Strategies and Mechanisms

Fernanda Maria Policarpo Tonelli, Rouf Ahmad Bhat, Gowhar Hamid Dar, Khalid Rehman Hakeem

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9781040118733
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Biotechnology in Medicine

The book discusses nano-phytoremediation: the use of nanotechnology in combination with phytoremediation to restore polluted environs. The potentiality of plants in association with nanomaterials to effectively remediate polluted areas is elaborated meritoriously in this book. New strategies are necessary because anthropogenic actions represent a serious threat to life on Earth. This book has given enough space for a discussion of innovative and efficient technologies to restore damaged environs primarily focused on nano-phytoremediation. The first part of the book is dedicated to exploring organic and inorganic pollution and the threats they pose to living forms. The second part explores the joint use of plants and nanomaterials and the nano-phytoremediation of water and soil ecosystems. The book offers readers extensive knowledge on nano-phytoremediation as a feasible strategy to clean environmental pollution. The key features of the book are as follows:

• Nano-phytoremediation strategies to remediate soil and water ecosystems.
• Special chapters dedicated to different kinds of pollutants and methods of phytoremediation.
• Strategies to evaluate the success of nano-phytoremediation strategies, cost-effectiveness, and nano informatics to safe nanotechnology.

The book can be used as a primary or supplementary text in undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate courses such as biotechnology, biochemistry, and environmental engineering. It is an interesting edition for instructors, researchers, and scientists working on environmental management and pollution control.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Editor Biography
• List of Contributors
• Chapter 1 Environmental Pollution Caused by Organic Pollutants, Their Harmful Impacts, and Treatment through a Microbiological Approach
• Chapter 2 Nanomaterial’s Interesting Characteristics to Remediate Polluted Environs
• Chapter 3 Carbon-Based Nanomaterials to Environs’ Remediation
• Chapter 4 Non-Carbon-Based Nano-Materials Used for Environmental Pollution Remediation
• Chapter 5 Green-Synthesis of Nanomaterials for Environmental Remediation
• Chapter 6 Comparison between Traditional and Nanoremediation Technology with a Special Reference to Soil and Heavy Metal Contamination
• Chapter 7 Joint Use of Nanomaterials and Plants for the Remediation of Inorganic Pollutants
• Chapter 8 Integration of Nano-Phytoremediation and Omics Technology for Sustainable Environmental Cleanup
• Chapter 9 Water Nano-Phytoremediation
• Chapter 10 Nanotools-Coupled Phytoremediation: Auspicious Technology for the Detoxification of Contaminated Pedospheric Matrices
• Chapter 11 Iron Nanoparticles for Nano-Phytoremediation
• Chapter 12 Silver Nanoparticles for Nano-Phytoremediation: Recent Advancements and the Potential of Nano Silver-Consolidated Phytoremediation in Ecospheric Decontamination
• Chapter 13 Magnetic Nanoparticles for Nano-Phytoremediation
• Chapter 14 Sustainability Aspects of Nanoremediation and Nanophytoremediation
• Chapter 15 Emerging Techniques for the Treatment of Wastewater
• Index