Advanced Nanostructures for Environmental Health

Advanced Nanostructures for Environmental Health shows how advanced nanostructures are used to meet the most important challenges of our age. The book presents examples of how advanced nanostructures can detect and remove pollutants and other contaminant harmful to people’s health and provides examples of diagnosis tools based on advanced nanostructures. Treatment possibilities with the use of nanostructures, such as phototherapeutic applications, radiation based treatment methods, and drug delivery systems are also explored.

Takes an interdisciplinary approach to the use of advanced nanostructures for applications, including both environmental science and biomedical perspectivesIncludes a range of case studies to show how nanomaterials are being used to solve real-life challengesCovered applications include the detection of pharmaceuticals, pesticides, (heavy) metals and metalloids, gas molecules, bacteria, viruses, and for water and air decontamination by advanced oxidation processes

1. When the nanostructures meet the environmental health key issues 2. Sensitive detection of organic pollutants by advanced nanostructures 3. Nanostructure-based detection of pharmaceuticals and other contaminants of emerging concern 4. Sensitive detection of metals and metalloids by using nanostructures and fluorimetric method 5. Heavy metal and metalloid electrochemical detection by composite nanostructures 6. Detection of gas molecules by means of spectrometric and spectroscopic methods 7. Advanced composite nanostructures as gas sensors 8. Advanced nanostructures for microbial contaminants detection by means of spectroscopic methods 9. Semiconductor mixed oxides as innovative materials for the photocatalytic removal of organic pollutants 10. Composite nanostructures as potential materials for water and air cleaning with enhanced efficiency 11. Removal of bacteria, viruses, and other microbial entities by means of nanoparticles 12. Pilot-plant scaled water treatment technologies, standards for the removal of contaminants of emerging concern based on photocatalytic materials 13. Perspectives of environmental health issues addressed by advanced nanostructures