Advanced Materials for Agriculture, Food, and Environmental Safety

The book focuses on the role of advanced materials in the food, water and environmental applications. The monitoring of harmful organisms and toxicants in water, food and beverages is mainly discussed in the respective chapters. The senior contributors write on the following topics:
* Layered double hydroxides and environment
* Corrosion resistance of aluminium alloys of silanes
* New generation material for the removal of arsenic from water
* Prediction and optimization of heavy clay products quality
* Enhancement of physical and mechanical properties of fiber
* Environment friendly acrylates latices
* Nanoparticles for trace analysis of toxins
* Recent development on gold nanomaterial as catalyst
* Nanosized metal oxide based adsorbents for heavy metal removal
* Phytosynthesized transition metal nanoparticles- novel functional agents for textiles
* Kinetics and equilibrium modeling
* Magnetic nanoparticles for heavy metal removal
* Potential applications of nanoparticles as antipathogens
* Gas barrier properties of biopolymer based nanocomposites: Application in food packing
* Application of zero-valent iron nanoparticles for environmental clean up
* Environmental application of novel TiO2 nanoparticles

List of contents

Preface xv
 
Part 1: Fundamental Methodologies 1
 
1 Layered Double Hydroxides and the Environment: An Overview 3
Amita Jaiswal, Ravindra Kumar Gautam and Mahesh Chandra Chattopadhyaya
 
1.1 Introduction 4
 
1.2 Structure of Layered Double Hydroxides 4
 
1.3 Properties of Layered Double Hydroxides 6
 
1.4 Synthesis of Layered Double Hydroxides 7
 
1.5 Characterization of Layered Double Hydroxides 11
 
1.6 Applications of Layered Double Hydroxides 13
 
1.7 Conclusions 19
 
Acknowledgements 19
 
References 20
 
2 Improvement of the Corrosion Resistance of Aluminium Alloys Applying Different Types of Silanes 27
Anca-Iulia Stoica, Norica Carmen Godja, Andje Stankovic, Matthias Polzler, Erich Kny and Christoph Kleber
 
2.1 Introduction 28
 
2.2 Silanes for Surface Treatment 31
 
2.3 Materials, Methods and Experimentals 40
 
2.4 Surface Analytics 42
 
2.5 Results and Discussion 43
 
2.6 Conclusions 56
 
Acknowledgements 57
 
References 57
 
3 New Generation Material for the Removal of Arsenic from Water 61
Dinesh Kumar and Vaishali Tomar
 
3.1 Introduction 62
 
3.2 Arsenic Desorption/Sorbent Regeneration 76
 
3.3 Conclusions 78
 
Acknowledgement 79
 
References 79
 
4 Prediction and Optimization of Heavy Clay Products Quality 87
Milica Arsenovic, Lato Pezo, Lidija Mancic and Zagorka Radojevic
 
4.1 Introduction 87
 
4.2 Materials and Methods 89
 
4.3 Results and Discussions 94
 
4.4 Conclusions 117
 
Acknowledgement 118
 
References 118
 
5 Enhancement of Physical and Mechanical Properties of Sugar Palm Fiber via Vacuum Resin Impregnation 121
M.R. Ishak, Z. Leman, S.M. Sapuan, M.Z.A. Rahman and U.M.K. Anwar
 
5.1 Introduction 122
 
5.2 Experimental 123
 
5.3 Results and Discussion 125
 
5.4 Conclusions 138
 
Acknowledgments 139
 
References 139
 
6 Environmentally-Friendly Acrylates-Based Polymer Latices 145
Sweta Shukla and J.S.P. Rai
 
6.1 Introduction 146
 
6.2 Polymerization Techniques 154
 
References 170
 
Part 2: Inventive Nanotechnology 177
 
7 Nanoparticles for Trace Analysis of Toxins: Present and Future Scenario 179
Anupreet Kaur and Shivender Singh Saini
 
7.1 Introduction 179
 
7.2 Nanoremediation Using TiO2 Nanoparticles 180
 
7.3 Gold Nanoparticles for Nanoremediation 183
 
7.4 Zero-Valent Iron Nanoparticles 184
 
7.5 Silicon Oxide Nanoparticles for Nanoremediation 187
 
7.6 Other Materials for Nanoremediation 190
 
7.7 Conclusion 193
 
References 193
 
8 Recent Developments in Gold Nanomaterial Catalysts for Oxidation Reaction through Green and
Sustainable Routes 197
Biswajit Chowdhury, Chiranjit Santra, Sandip Mandal and Rawesh Kumar
 
8.1 Introduction 198
 
8.2 Propylene Epoxidation Reaction 202
 
8.3 Reaction Mechanism 211
 
8.4 Glucose Oxidation 214
 
8.5 Alcohol Oxidation 225
 
8.6 Conclusion 234
 
References 234
 
9 Nanosized Metal Oxide-Based Adsorbents for Heavy Metal Removal: A Review 243
Deepak Pathania and Pardeep Singh
 
9.1 Introduction 244
 
9.2 Nanosized Metal Oxide 246
 
9.3 Hybrid Adsorbents 253
 
9.4 Conclusion 258
 
References 258
 
10 Future Prospects of Phytosynthesized Transition Metal Nanoparticles as Novel Functional Agents for Textiles 265
Shahid-ul-Islam, Mohammad Shahid and Faqeer Mohammad
 
10.1 Introd

About the author

Ashutosh Tiwari is an Associate Professor at the Biosensors and Bioelectronics Centre, Linköping University, Sweden; Editor-in-Chief, Advanced Materials Letters; Secretary General, International Association of Advanced Materials; a materials chemist and also a docent in the applied physics from Linköping University, Sweden. He has published more than 350 articles, patents, and conference proceedings in the field of materials science and technology and has edited/authored more than fifteen books on the advanced state-of-the-art of materials science.  He is a founding member of the Advanced Materials World Congress and the Indian Materials Congress.
Mikael Syväjärvi received his PhD degree in materials science from Linköping University, Sweden in 1999. His expertise is in materials growth and technologies of silicon carbide (SiC), graphene and related materials while his scientific focus area is material for energy and the environment. He initiated a European research collaboration in fluorescent and photovoltaic SiC, and has co-organized several symposiums at E-MRS. He has published more than 200 journal and conference papers. He is a co-inventor of The Cubic Sublimation Method for cubic SiC and the Fast Sublimation Growth Process that is applied for industrial development of fluorescent hexagonal SiC. He is also co-inventor of the High Temperature Graphene Process and a co-founder of Graphensic AB that manufactures and supplies graphene on SiC.

Summary

The book focuses on the role of advanced materials in the food, water and environmental applications. The monitoring of harmful organisms and toxicants in water, food and beverages is mainly discussed in the respective chapters.

Product details

• Authors: A Tiwari, Ashutosh Tiwari, Ashutosh Syvajarvi Tiwari
• Assisted by: Mikael Syv J. Rvi (Editor), Mikael Syv?j?rvi (Editor), Mikael Syvajarvi (Editor), Syväjärvi (Editor), Syväjärvi (Editor), Mikael Syväjärvi (Editor), Tiwar (Editor), Tiwari (Editor), Ashutosh Tiwari (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.2014
• EAN: 9781118773437
• ISBN: 978-1-118-77343-7
• No. of pages: 528
• Series: Advance Materials Series; Advanced Materials Series; Advanced Material; Advanced Material Series; Advance Materials Series; Advanced Materials Series; Advanced Materials
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Chemistry > Miscellaneous