Nanomaterials in Environmental Analysis (eBook)

In todays' world with its widespread usage of personal-care products, pharmaceuticals, surfactants, flame retardants, plasticizers, various industrial additives, metals and metalloids, pesticides, and pesticide metabolites, environmental contaminants are an increasing source of pollution with a severe effect on the ecological system. Industries that produce these contaminants must find answers to remediate this.Nanomaterials in Environmental Analysis contributes to solving this problem by providing researchers in industry and academia with promising applications of nanoparticles in detection techniques and in removal of chemical species from the environment. Each chapter covers an aspect of using nanoparticles in detecting, measuring and remediating toxic chemical species in the environment. - Explores the application of nanoparticles for the identification and quantification of pollutants from various environments - Serves as a quick reference and source of knowledge on nanoparticles-based techniques for environmental applications - Takes foundational knowledge for application to research in the area - Provides future trends

Suresh Kumar Kailasa FRSC is an Associate Professor of the Department of Chemistry at Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT) Surat, Gujrat, India. He obtained his master of science (Chemistry of Natural Products) in chemistry from Sri Krishnadeveraya University, Andhra Pradesh, India and his PhD in Chemistry from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India. After completing two Postdoctoral Fellowships at Chonbuk University, South Korea and at National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan, he joined an Assistant Professor at SVNIT, Surat in 2009. He received Young Scientist Award from Taiwan Mass Spectrometry Society in 2013. He was selected as a Brain Pool Scientist at the Department of Chemistry, Chung-Ang University, South Korea under Korean Brain Pool Invitation Program of KOFST in 2017. He was selected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), London, UK and Fellow of the Society of Pesticide Science India in 2019. He has been selected as a life member in the National Academy of Sciences (NASI) Allahabad, India. He acted as Guest Editors in the special issues in Applied Sciences (MDPI) and Materials Today Chemistry (Elsevier). Currently, he is the head of the Department of Chemistry, SVNIT, Surat, India. He is the author of 182 peer-reviewed papers and is the co-inventor of a Taiwan Patent. His research interest in the field of analytical chemistry, MALDI-MS, ESI-MS, microextraction, nanosensors, drug delivery, surface modifications of nanostructure materials, functional nanomaterials for the development of new analytical strategies.