Synthesis of Nanomaterials for Energy Generation and Storage
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
P. Narsimha, P. Rajesh Kumar, K. Raghu Raja Pandiyan,
Prashant L. Suryawanshi, Ramsagar Vooradi, K. Anand Kishore
and Shirish H. Sonawane
Interaction of Heavy Crude Oil and Nanoparticles for Heavy Oil
Upgrading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Rohan M. Jadhav and Jitendra S. Sangwai
Application of Nanoparticles-Based Technologies in the Oil
and Gas Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Rellegadla Sandeep, Shikha Jain and Akhil Agrawal
Effect of Nanoparticles on the Performance of Drilling Fluids . . . . . . . . 279
Gomathi Rajalakshmi Seetharaman and Jitendra S. Sangwai
Interaction of Nanoparticles with Reservoir Fluids and Rocks
for Enhanced Oil Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Uma Sankar Behera and Jitendra S. Sangwai
Versatile 1-D Nanostructures for Green Energy Conversion
and Storage Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
R. R. Deshmukh, A. S. Kalekar, S. R. Khaladkar and O. C. Maurya
Nanoporous Polymeric Membranes for Hydrogen Separation . . . . . . . . 355
Rajesh Kumar, Kamakshi, Manoj Kumar and Kamlendra Awasthi
Functionalized Nano-porous Silicon Surfaces
for Energy Storage Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
Pushpendra Kumar
Optimization of MAPbI 3 Film Using Response Surface Methodology
for Enhancement in Photovoltaic Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Nitu Kumari, Sanjaykumar R. Patel and Jignasa V. Gohel
Application of Nanotechnology in Diagnosis and Therapeutics . . . . . . . 413
R. Mankamna Kumari, Ritu Goswami and Surendra Nimesh
Designing Novel Photocatalysts for Disinfection
of Multidrug-Resistant Waterborne Bacteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
Sourav Das, Ananyo Jyoti Misra, A. P. Habeeb Rahman, Aradhana Basu,
Amrita Mishra, Ashok J. Tamhankar, Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg
and Suraj K. Tripathy
Magnetic Nanoparticles: Green and Environment Friendly Catalyst
for Organic Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
Suman Swami and Rahul Shrivastava
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