Handbook of Ecomaterials
Edited by Leticia Myriam, Torres Martínez, Oxana Vasilievna, Kharissova, Boris Ildusovich, Kharisov
Contents
Volume 1
Part I Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1 Nanomaterials, Ecomaterials, and Wide Vision of Material
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain and Sukanchan Palit
2 Environmental Impact Measurements: Tool and Techniques . . . 33
L. Dotaniya, V. D. Meena, J. K. Saha, S. Rajendiran, A. K. Patra,
K. Dotaniya, H. M. Meena, Kuldeep Kumar, and B. P. Meena
3 Green Nanomaterials for Clean Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Rajasekhar and Suvardhan Kanchi
Part II Synthesis, Processing, and Characterization of
Eco-materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
4 Synthesis Techniques for Preparation of Nanomaterials . . . . . . . 83
Sharanabasava V. Ganachari, Nagaraj R. Banapurmath, Basavaraja
Salimath, Jayachandra S. Yaradoddi, Ashok S. Shettar, Anand M.
Hunashyal, Abbaraju Venkataraman, Parvathi Patil, H. Shoba, and
Gurusiddesh B. Hiremath
5 Plant Materials for the Synthesis of Nanomaterials: Greener
Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Déborah L. Villaseñor-Basulto, Mary-Magdalene Pedavoah, and
Eric R. Bandala
6 Processing and Characterization of Bio-composites . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Pramendra Kumar Bajpai, Furkan Ahmad, and Vijay Chaudhary
7 Sustainable Advancement to the Synthesis of Oxadiazoles . . . . . 141
Abdul Rauf
8 Analytical Models for the Permeabilities of Fibrous
Ecomaterials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Boqi Xiao
9 Principles for Evaluations of Healthiness of New Materials . . . . . 169
Emina K. Petrović
Part III Wastewater and Pollutant Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
10 Nanomaterials for Industrial Wastewater Treatment and
Water Purification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Sukanchan Palit
11 Nano-geomaterials for Water Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Xike Tian, Na Tian, Yulun Nie, Wenjun Luo, and Yanxin Wang
12 Applications of Nanoparticles in the Treatment of
Wastewater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Iffat Zareen Ahmad, Asad Ahmad, Heena Tabassum, and
Mohammed Kuddus
13 Iron and Iron Oxide-Based Eco-nanomaterials for Catalysis
and Water Remediation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Santosh Bahadur Singh
14 Partial Desalination of Saline Irrigation Water Using
[FexOy(OH)z(H2O)m)n+/_] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
David D. J. Antia
15 Porous Materials Obtained from Nonconventional Sources
Used in Wastewater Treatment Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
Coutino-Gonzalez, I. Robles-Gutiérrez, M. Solís-López, and
Espejel-Ayala
16 Remediation of Water Contaminants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Akbar Mohammad, Khursheed Ahmad, Richa Rajak, and
Shaikh M. Mobin
17 New Carbon Nanomaterials for Water Purification from
Heavy Metals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Alexander E. Burakov, Irina V. Burakova, Evgeny V. Galunin, and
Anastasia E. Kucherova
18 Semiconductor Eco-materials for Water Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Alfredo Gonzalez-Perez, Kenneth M. Persson, and Lars Samuelson
19 Composite Nanofibers for Removing Water Pollutants:
Fabrication Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
Daniel S. Correa, Luiza A. Mercante, Rodrigo Schneider,
Murilo H. M. Facure, and Danilo A. Locilento
20 Porous Nanomaterials for Heavy Metal Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
Lin Zhi Lee, Muhammad Abbas Ahmad Zaini, and Shu Hui Tang
21 Degradation of Pollutants Using Advanced Ecomaterials . . . . . . 495
Ihsan Flayyih Hasan AI-Jawhari
22 Novel Eco-friendly Mitigation Strategies for Managing Oil
Spills and Municipal Waste Dump Site Leachates . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
Babajide Milton Macaulay, Abiodun Daniel Aderibigbe, and
Germaine Ogunwole
23 Antimicrobial Activity of the Engineered Nanoparticles Used
as Coating Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549
Meenakshisundaram Swaminathan and Naresh Kumar Sharma
24 Algal Degradation of Organic Pollutants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565
Mourad Baghour
Part IV VOC Removal, CO2 Sequestration, and Applications . . . . . . 587
25 TiO2/SiO2 Films for Removal of Volatile Organic Compounds
(VOCs) from Indoor Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589
Nataša Novak Tušar, Andraž Šuligoj, and Urška Lavrenčič Štangar
26 Degradation of Volatile Organic Compounds with
Catalysts-Containing Zeolite and Ordered Mesoporous Silica . . . 607
Anderson Joel Schwanke, Rosana Balzer, and Sibele Pergher
27 CO2 Sequestration: Processes and Methodologies . . . . . . . . . . . . 619
Chandra Sekhar Kuppan and Murthy Chavali
28 CO2 Sequestration and Transformation Potential of
Agricultural System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669
L. Dotaniya, C. K. Dotaniya, R. C. Sanwal, and H. M. Meena
29 Efficient Utilization of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide as Both
Reactant and Reaction Medium for Synthetic Applications . . . . . 687
Sodeh Sadjadi
Volume 2
Part V Hydrogen and Energy Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717
30 Energy Recovery from Solid Waste: Application of
Gasification Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719
Mohammad G. Rasul and Sharmina Begum
31 Renewable Energy Sources: Regulations in the Russian
Federation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753
Ekaterina A. Belokrylova
32 Metal Hydrides for Energy Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775
Marina G. Shelyapina
33 Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) Composited with
Nanomaterials for Next-Generation Supercapacitive Energy
Storage Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811
Mohit Saraf and Shaikh M. Mobin
34 Nanocomposites for Structural and Energy Applications . . . . . . 833
Nagaraj R. Banapurmath, Shankar A. Hallad, Anand M. Hunashyal,
M. Sajjan, Ashok S. Shettar, N. H. Ayachit, and Malatesh T. Godi
35 Efficient, Sustainable, and Clean Energy Storage in
Supercapacitors Using Biomass-Derived Carbon Materials . . . . . 855
Ram Bhagat Marichi, Vikrant Sahu, Raj Kishore Sharma, and
Gurmeet Singh
36 Nanofluids Containing Titanium Dioxide: Thermo-physical
Properties and Energy Saving Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 881
Kin Yuen Leong and W. H. Azmi
37 Biomass Energy and Bio-solar Hybrid Energy Systems . . . . . . . . 901
Rakesh P. Tapaskar, Prashant P. Revankar, Sharanabasava
Ganachari, and Jayachandra S. Yaradoddi
38 Thin Film Hydrogen Storages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913
Aleksey Guglya and Elena Lyubchenko
39 Hydrogen Storage Alloys: Types and Characteristics . . . . . . . . . 941
Amal E. Nassar, Eman E. Nassar, and Mona A. Younis
40 Thermoelectric Power Generation from Waste Heat . . . . . . . . . . 961
Yoshikazu Shinohara and Osamu Umezawa
Part VI Solar and Fuel Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 981
41 Ecomaterials in Solar Cell Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 983
Verónica González and Israel López
42 Radiation-Resistant Solar Cells: Recent Updates and Future
Prospective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1007
Khuram Ali and Yasir Javed
43 Photovoltaic Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1033
Yifan Wang, Hailin Cong, and Bing Yu
44 Advances in Polymer-Based Photovoltaic Cells: Review of
Pioneering Materials, Design, and Device Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . 1055
Sanjay Tiwari, Tanya Tiwari, Sue A. Carter, J. Campbell Scott, and
V. Yakhmi
45 Optimization of Bulk Heterojunction Organic Photovoltaic
Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1103
Sanjay Tiwari, J. V. Yakhmi, Sue A. Carter, and J. Campbell Scott
46 Carbon Nanostructured Catalysts as High Efficient Materials
for Low Temperature Fuel Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1139
Sadegh Hassani and L. Samiee
47 Renewable Bio-anodes for Microbial Fuel Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167
Chris M. Bhadra, Palalle G. Tharushi Perera, Vi Khanh Truong,
Olga N. Ponamoreva, Russell J. Crawford, and Elena P. Ivanova
48 Alternative Fuels from Waste Products in Cement Industry . . . . 1183
Wilfred Zieri and Ibrahim Ismail
49 Green Energy Generation from Microbial Fuel Cells . . . . . . . . . 1207
Leena Hublikar, Sharanabasava V. Ganachari, and Jayachandra
Yaradoddi
Part VII Sensors for Detection of Hazardous Substances . . . . . . . . . 1221
50 Nanomaterials for the Selective Detection of Hydrogen at
Trace Levels in the Ambient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1223
Eduard Llobet and Eric Navarrete
51 Nanomaterials as Sensor for Hazardous Gas Detection . . . . . . . . 1247
Sarat Kumar Swain, Sunita Barik, and Rashmita Das
52 Polyaniline Synthesis and Its Wide-Range Sensor and
Electronic Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1267
Sharanabasava V. Ganachari, Pradyumna Mogre, Rakesh P.
Tapaskar, Jayachandra S. Yaradoddi, and Nagaraj R. Banapurmath
53 Recent Advances and Techniques in the Hazardous Gases
Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1293
Prerna Bansal and Rakhi Thareja
54 Conducting Polymer Composite-Based Sensors for Flexible
Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1311
Sharanabasava V. Ganachari, Leema R. Viannie, Pradyumna Mogre,
Rakesh P. Tapaskar, and Jayachandra S. Yaradoddi
Part VIII Cellulose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1343
55 Nanocellulose: Insight into Health and Medical Applications . . . 1345
Nadia Halib and Ishak Ahmad
56 Nanocellulose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1365
Nishtha Singh, Sonal Upadhyay, and Nidhi Mishra
57 Cellulosic Biofuel: Technologies, Prospects, and Challenges . . . . 1383
Fatima Rahman, Md Nazrul Islam, Md Omar Faruk,
Md Ashaduzzaman, and Md Iftekhar Shams
58 Development of Binderless Composites from Different
Nonwood Lignocellulosic Materials: Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1395
Ireen Parvin Nitu, Md Iftekhar Shams, Md Nazrul Islam,
Sourav Bagchi Ratul, and Md Ashaduzzaman
Volume 3
Part IX Textile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1411
59 Eco-fibers in the Textile Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1413
Harun Venkatesan and Aravin Prince Periyasamy
60 Sustainable Biopolymers in Textiles: An Overview . . . . . . . . . . . 1435
Karthik and R. Rathinamoorthy
61 Eco-materials in Textile Finishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1461
Aravin Prince Periyasamy and Harun Venkatesan
62 Eco-fabrication of Nanomaterials for Multifunctional
Textiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1483
Mohd Shabbir, S. Wazed Ali, and Faqeer Mohammad
63 Colored Cotton: Novel Eco-friendly Textile Material for
the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1499
Rathinamoorthy and M. Parthiban
64 Environmental Friendly Textile Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1521
Aravin Prince Periyasamy, Samson Rwahwire, and Yan Zhao
65 Eco-friendly Denim Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1559
Aravin Prince Periyasamy, Sunil Kumar Ramamoorthy, and
Saatish Siddappa Lavate
66 Carbon Footprint on Denim Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1581
Aravin Prince Periyasamy and Gopalakrishnan Duraisamy
67 Clothing Swap: Gateway to Sustainable Eco-friendly Fashion . . . . 1599
Rathinamoorthy, R. Surjit, and T. Karthik
Part X Catalysis, Photocatalysis, Hydrogen Production, and
Artificial Photosynthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1623
68 Environmental Photocatalysis/Photocatalytic
Decontamination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1625
Swaminathan Meenakshisundaram
69 Photocatalytic Decontamination in Pharmaceutical Effluent
Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1641
Ranjana Das and Chiranjib Bhattacharjee
70 Photocatalytic H2 Production and Carbon Dioxide Capture
Using Metallurgical Slag and Slag-Derived Materials . . . . . . . . . 1659
V. Montoya-Bautista, B. C. Alcántar-Vázquez, M. Solís-López,
G. Tabla-Vázquez, A. A. Morales-Pérez, R. Schouwenaars, and
M. Ramírez-Zamora
71 Nanostructured Catalysts in Vehicle Exhaust Control Systems . . . . 1679
Gennady Gerasimov and Michael Pogosbekian
72 Catalytic and Photocatalytic Properties of Oxide Spinels . . . . . . 1701
Tetiana Tatarchuk, Basma Al-Najar, Mohamed Bououdina, and
Mamdouh Abdel Aal Ahmed
73 Waste-Porous-Based Materials as Supports of TiO2
Photocatalytic Coatings for Environmental Applications . . . . . . . 1751
Vicente Rodríguez-González and Mariana Hinojosa-Reyes
74 Ecofriendly Nanomaterials for Sustainable Photocatalytic
Decontamination of Organics and Bacteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1777
Archana Charanpahari, Nidhi Gupta, Vidyasagar Devthade, Sachin
Ghugal, and Jatin Bhatt
75 Hydrogen Generation via Photoelectrochemical Splitting
of Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1807
Pushpendra Kumar and Ashish Kumar
76 Engineering Two-Dimensional Transition Metal
Dichalcogenide Electrocatalysts for Water Splitting
Hydrogen Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1845
Xianyi Cao, Yingying Tang, Jens Øllgaard Duus, and Qijin Chi
77 Conventional and Renewable Energy-Based Hydrogen
Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1875
Rakesh P. Tapaskar, Prashant P. Revankar, Sharanabasava V.
Ganachari, and Jayachandra S. Yaradoddi
78 Industrial Perennial Crops for a Post-Petroleum Materials
Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1891
Eric Toensmeier and Ann Blake
79 Artificial Photosynthesis: An Approach for a Sustainable
Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1909
Matthieu Koepf, Anne-Lucie Teillout, and
Manuel J. Llansola-Portoles
Part XI Biomass, Food, and Other Natural Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1935
80 Eco-friendly Materials for Chemical Products
Manufacturing: Adhesives Derived from Biomass and
Renewable Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1937
O Gómez-Jiménez-Aberasturi
81 Production of Biodiesel from Algae: An Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1953
Athar Ali, Abdul Qadir, Mohammed Kuddus, Parul Saxena, and
Malik Zainul Abdin
82 Catalytic Upgrading of Bio-oil for Production of Drop-In
Fuels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1965
Maryam Takht Ravanchi and Saeed Sahebdelfar
83 Bio-based Nanoemulsions: An Eco-safe Approach Towards
the Eco-toxicity Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1985
Prabhakar Mishra, A. P. B. Balaji, Amitava Mukherjee, and
Natarajan Chandrasekaran
84 Biomaterials Degradation and Bioabsorbability: Biomedical
Potentials of Marine Enzymes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2007
Kelvii Wei Guo
85 Nanotechnology in Food Packaging Applications: Barrier
Materials, Antimicrobial Agents, Sensors, and Safety
Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2035
Mariana Pereda, Norma E. Marcovich, and María R. Ansorena
86 Food Biopackaging Based on Chitosan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2057
María R. Ansorena, Norma E. Marcovich, and Mariana Pereda
87 Wasteless Processing of Renewable Protein and
Carbohydrate-Containing Waste into Consumer Goods . . . . . . . 2085
Aslan Yu Tsivadze and Alexander Fridman
Part XII Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2117
88 Construction Materials Reinforced with Natural Products . . . . . 2119
Irem Sanal and Deepak Verma
89 Construction Materials for the Urban Environment:
Environmental Assessment of Life Cycle Performance . . . . . . . . 2143
Kylili and P. A. Fokaides
90 Recycled Materials and By-Products for Pavement
Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2177
Sherif M. El-Badawy, Alaa R. Gabr, and Ragaa T. Abd El-Hakim
91 Cement-Bonded Lignocellulosic Panel (CLP): A Promising
Environmental Friendly Construction Material for
Conservation of Forest Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2199
Md Rafikul Islam, Fatima Rahman, Md Nazrul Islam,
Md Nasim Rana, Suresh Kumar Nath, Md Ashaduzzaman, and
Md Iftekhar Shams
92 Bio-inspired Materials: Contribution of Biology to Energy
Efficiency of Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2213
Marzieh Imani, Michael Donn, and Zahra Balador
93 Thermal and Acoustic Building Insulations from
Agricultural Wastes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2237
Zahra Balador, Morten Gjerde, Nigel Isaacs, and Marzieh Imani
Volume 4
Part XIII Metals and Metal Oxides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2259
94 Growth of Ecomaterials and Eco-efficiency in Major Metallic
Structural Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2261
Osamu Umezawa, Yoshikazu Shinohara, and Kohmei Halada
95 Green Synthesis of Metal, Metal Oxide Nanoparticles, and
Their Various Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2281
Annu, Akbar Ali, and Shakeel Ahmed
96 Metrology for Metal Nanoparticles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2327
Natalia L. Pacioni
97 Silver Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2343
Mohd Yusuf
98 Metal Oxide Nanomaterials for Environmental Applications . . . 2357
Sharanabasava V. Ganachari, Leena Hublikar, Jayachandra S.
Yaradoddi, and Shivalingayya S. Math
Part XIV Inorganic Ecomaterials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2369
99 Nanostructured Calcium Phosphate-Based Bioceramics from
Waste Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2371
N. F. Holanda
100 Nanopowdered h-BN as a Wear-Reducing Eco-friendly
Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2389
Archil Gachechiladze, Otar Tsagareishvili, Boris Margiev,
Leri Rukhadze, Maguli Darchiashvili, and Levan Chkhartishvili
101 Nanoscale Clay Minerals for Functional Ecomaterials:
Fabrication, Applications, and Future Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2409
Wenbo Wang and Aiqin Wang
102 Ytterbium and Erbium Co-doped Rare-Earth Aluminum
Borate Crystals as New Materials for Eye-Safe Lasers: Flux
Growth and Characterization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2491
I. Leonyuk, V. V. Maltsev, E. A. Volkova, E. V. Koporulina,
V. Kuleshov, V. E. Kisel, and K. N. Gorbachenya
103 Hierarchical MWW Zeolites by Soft and Hard Template
Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2537
Anderson Joel Schwanke and Sibele Pergher
104 Plasmonic Ecomaterials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2561
Carlos Puente and Israel López
105 Ecomaterials on Basis of Apatite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2585
Amor, A. Vázquez, and Boris Ildusovich Kharisov
106 Electrochemical Synthesis of Coordination Compounds of
Lanthanides: Effective Luminophores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2615
Panyushkin, F. A. Kolokolov, A. I. Oflidi, and M. A. Nazarenko
Part XV Agriculture and Agro-industrial Wastes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2655
107 Novel Nanoscaled Materials from Lignocellulosic Sources:
Potential Applications in the Agricultural Sector . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2657
Elena Fortunati, Deepak Verma, F. Luzi, A. Mazzaglia, L. Torre, and
M. Balestra
108 Green Nanotechnology for Biomedical, Food, and
Agricultural Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2681
Sharanabasava V. Ganachari, Jayachandra S. Yaradoddi, Sasidhar B.
Somappa, Pradyumna Mogre, Rakesh P. Tapaskar, Basavaraja
Salimath, Abbaraju Venkataraman, and Venkata J. Viswanath
109 Agro-industrial Waste Materials and Their Recycled
Value-Added Applications: Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2699
Mohd Yusuf
110 Polysaccharides as Eco-nanomaterials for Agricultural
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2709
Danila Merino, Claudia Casalongué, and Vera A. Alvarez
Part XVI Eco-polymers and Their Sustainable Properties . . . . . . . . . 2731
111 Compostable Polymeric Ecomaterials: Environment-
Friendly Waste Management Alternative to Landfills . . . . . . . . . 2733
Wanda Sikorska, Marta Musioł, Barbara Zawidlak-Węgrzyńska, and
Joanna Rydz
112 Geopolymers: Past, Present, and Future of Low Carbon
Footprint Eco-materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2765
Carlos Sotelo-Piña, Elsa Nadia Aguilera-González, and Antonia
Martínez-Luévanos
113 Carbon Nanotube-Based Biodegradable Polymeric
Nanocomposites: 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle) in
the Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2787
Yit Thai Ong and Soon Huat Tan
114 Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB): A Standout Biopolymer for
Environmental Sustainability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2803
Krishna Prasad Rajan, Selvin P. Thomas, Aravinthan Gopanna, and
Murthy Chavali
115 Eco-polymer and Carbon Nanotube Composite: Safe
Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2827
Ayesha Kausar
116 Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) in Industrial Applications . . . . . 2843
Palmiro Poltronieri and Prasun Kumar
117 Polyhydroxyalkanoates: Biodegradable Plastics and
Their Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2873
Abhilasha Singh Mathuriya and J. V. Yakhmi
118 Biobased Polyamide Ecomaterials and Their Susceptibility
to Biodegradation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2901
Mariya Kyulavska, Natalia Toncheva-Moncheva, and Joanna Rydz
119 Alternative and Renewable Bio-based and Biodegradable
Plastics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2935
Jayachandra S. Yaradoddi, Shoba Hugar, Nagaraj R. Banapurmath,
Anand M. Hunashyal, M. B. Sulochana, Ashok S. Shettar, and
Sharanabasava V. Ganachari
120 Biobased and Biodegradable Plastics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2955
Deepak Verma and Elena Fortunati
121 Waste Polymethyl Methacrylate (PMMA): Recycling and
High-Yield Monomer Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2977
Elnaz Esmizadeh, Saeed Khalili, Ali Vahidifar, Ghasem Naderi, and
Charles Dubois
122 Polymers for Energy Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3011
Sharanabasava V. Ganachari
Volume 5
Part XVII Eco-materials with Special Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3029
123 Eco-materials with Noise Reduction Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3031
Jorge P. Arenas and Francesco Asdrubali
124 Halogen-Free Flame Retardant Plastics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3057
Hüsnügül Yilmaz Atay
125 Environmentally Friendly Fluids for High-Voltage
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3081
E. Contreras, J. Rodríguez-Díaz, and E. A. Rodriguez
126 An Overview of Advancement in the Application of
Heat-Resistant Alloys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3107
Sunday Albert Lawal and Oyewole Adedipe
127 Eco-material Selection for Auto Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3125
Ahmad T. Mayyas, Mohammed Omar, and Mohammed T. Hayajneh
128 Regeneration and Recycling of Spent Bleaching Earth . . . . . . . . 3147
Bin Mu and Aiqin Wang
129 Biomimetic Materials for Addressing Climate Change . . . . . . . . 3169
Maibritt Pedersen Zari
130 Multifunctional Composite Ecomaterials and Their Impact
on Sustainability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3193
Sebastian Jurczyk, Piotr Kurcok, and Marta Musioł
131 Advanced Materials from Forests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3223
Geoffrey Mitchell, Florindo Gaspar, Artur Mateus, Vidhura
Mahendra, and Dora Sousa
132 Eco-friendly Nanoparticle Additives for Lubricants and
Their Tribological Characterization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3247
Laura Peña-Parás, Demófilo Maldonado-Cortés, and
Jaime Taha-Tijerina
133 Eco-friendly Lubricants for Tribological Application . . . . . . . . . 3269
Ranjana Das
134 Highly Efficient Hybrid Protective Materials for Technically
Complicated Systems in Natural Aggressive Conditions . . . . . . . 3287
Panyushkin, N. Petrov, M. Sokolov, and N. Bukov
135 Eco-adsorbents for Organic Solvents and Grease Removal . . . . . 3347
Shu Hui Tang, Muhammad Abbas Ahmad Zaini, and Lin Zhi Lee
136 Microporous and Mesoporous Materials from Natural and
Inexpensive Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3379
Anderson Joel Schwanke, Rosana Balzer, and Sibele Pergher
137 Low-Cost Materials with Adsorption Performance . . . . . . . . . . . 3401
Hamidreza Sadegh, Mohammadreza Mazloumbilandi, and Milad
Chahardouri
138 Eco-friendly Energetic Substances for Initiation Devices . . . . . . . 3433
Mikhail A. Ilyushin and Irina V. Shugalei
Part XVIII Medical and Biomedical Ecomaterials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3451
139 Nanoclays for Biomedical Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3453
Laura Peña-Parás, José Antonio Sánchez-Fernández, and
Román Vidaltamayo
140 Biomedical Applications of Chitosan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3473
Mohd Yusuf
141 Biomolecule Silver Nanoparticle-Based Materials for
Biomedical Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3485
Manuel Ahumada, Erik J. Suuronen, and Emilio I. Alarcon
142 Porosity in Biomaterials: A Key Factor in the Development
of Applied Materials in Biomedicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3503
Manuel Ahumada, Erik Jacques, Cristian Calderon, and
Fabián Martínez-Gómez
143 Nanobioremediation: Ecofriendly Application of
Nanomaterials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3523
Mohammad Rizwan and Minhaz Uddin Ahmed
144 Bioactive Cosmetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3537
Camila Areias de Oliveira and Michelli Ferrera Dario
145 DNA Nanotechnology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3561
Jayachandra S. Yaradoddi, Merja Hannele Kontro, Sharanabasava V.
Ganachari, M. B. Sulochana, Dayanand Agsar, Rakesh P. Tapaskar,
and Ashok S. Shettar
146 Protein Nanotechnology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3573
Jayachandra S. Yaradoddi, Merja Hannele Kontro, Sharanabasava V.
Ganachari, M. B. Sulochana, and Dayanand Agsar
147 RNA Nanotechnology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3587
Jayachandra S. Yaradoddi, Merja Hannele Kontro, Sharanabasava V.
Ganachari, M. B. Sulochana, Dayanand Agsar, Rakesh P. Tapaskar,
and Ashok S. Shettar
Part XIX Radiation Protection and Therapy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3601
148 Nanomaterial for the Management of Radioactive Waste . . . . . . 3603
Debjani Nath
149 New Sorbents for Processing Radioactive Waste . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3621
Aslan Yu Tsivadze, Vladimir Baulin, and Dmitry Baulin
150 Application of Nanoparticle Materials in Radiation Therapy . . . 3661
James Chun Lam Chow
151 Ecological Aspects of Nuclear Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3683
Gokhman and M. Kondria
152 Life Cycle of Ion Exchangers in Nuclear Industry:
Application and Management of Spent Exchangers . . . . . . . . . . . 3709
O. Abdel Rahman, S. S. Metwally, and A. M. El-Kamash
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3733