May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
920 pages
30h 44m
English
Himani Medhi and Krishna G. Bhattacharyya
Gauhati University, Department of Chemistry, Guwahati, Assam 781014, India
Recent advances in nanoscience and technology offer leapfrogging achievements and opportunities to develop next-generation technologies for better environment and better society. The current practices of treating contaminated water rely heavily on huge centralized systems and are considered mostly unsustainable. It has been foreseen that newer forms of nanomaterials are destined to play a very important role in water treatment. The novel size-dependent properties of nanomaterials in clear distinction from their large counterparts make them important candidates ...