Shamim, N: Sustainable Nanotechnology and the Environment

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Ten Years of Green Nanotechnology; Barbara Karn and Stanislaus S. Wong; 2. Green Synthesis of Nanomaterials: Environmental Aspects; J. Virkutyte and R. S. Varma; 3. Greener and Other Approaches To Synthesize Fe and Pd Nanoparticles in; Functionalized Membranes and Hydrogel; V. Smuleac, L. Xiao, and D. Bhattacharyya; 4. Nanostructured Materials for Environmentally Conscious Applications; Panagiotis Dallas, Antonios Kelarakis, and Emmanuel P. Giannelis; 5. Nanomaterials in Agricultural Production: Benefits and Possible Threats?; Jie Hong, Jose R. Peralta-Videa, and Jorge L. Gardea-Torresdey; 6. Nanotechnology for More Sustainable Manufacturing: Opportunities and; Risks; David G. Rickerby; 7. Biological Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles and Assessment of Their; Bactericidal Activity; M. Sathishkumar, A. Mahadevan, S. Pavagadhi, R. Kaushik, V. K. Sharma, and; R. Balasubramanian; 8. Reactive Peptide Nanofiltration; P. Marchetti, A. Butte, and A. G. Livingston; 9. HCl Effect on Two Types of Ag Nanoparticles Utilizable in Detection of; Low Concentrations of Organic Species; Karolina Siskova, Ondrej Becicka, Klara Safarova, and Radek Zboril; 10. Stability and Toxicity of Silver Nanoparticles in Aquatic Environment: A; Review; Virender K. Sharma; 11. Toxic PH3 Catalytic Decomposition and High Purity Phosphorus; Production by Amorphous Co-Based Alloy Nanomaterials; Xue-jiao Tang, Zong-ming Xiu, Chang-xiu Han, and Bao-gui Zhang; 12. Chapter Green Nanotechnology: Development of Nanomaterials for; Environmental and Energy Applications; Changseok Han, Joel Andersen, Suresh C. Pillai, Rachel Fagan, Polycarpos Falaras,; J. Anthony Byrne, Patrick S. M. Dunlop, Hyeok Choi, Wenjun Jiang, Kevin O'Shea,; and Dionysios D. Dionysiou; 13. Dye-Sensitized Photocatalyst: A Breakthrough in Green Energy and; Environmental Detoxification; Pankaj Chowdhury, Hassan Gomaa, and Ajay K. Ray; 14. Hierarchical Hybrid K-OMS-2/TiO2 Nanofibrous Membrane for Water; Treatment;

Najm Shamim is affiliated with the Environmental Protection Agency. Virender K. Sharma is affiliated with the Florida Institute of Technology.