supplies of fresh water. Nanotechnology has shown huge potential in areas as
diverse as drug development, water decontamination, information and communication technologies, and the production of stronger, lighter materials and human health
care. The recent development of nanotechnology is the technology which raised the
possibility of environmental decontamination through several nanomaterials, processes, and tools. This chapter summarizes the expertise of various approaches of
decontamination for successful realization of remediation in environment.
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(2010) Graphene/polyaniline nanocomposite for hydrogen sensing. J Phys Chem
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diverse as drug development, water decontamination, information and communication technologies, and the production of stronger, lighter materials and human health
care. The recent development of nanotechnology is the technology which raised the
possibility of environmental decontamination through several nanomaterials, processes, and tools. This chapter summarizes the expertise of various approaches of
decontamination for successful realization of remediation in environment.
References
Abhijith KS, Thakur MS (2012) Application of green synthesis of gold nanoparticles for sensitive
detection of aflatoxin B1 based on metal enhanced fluorescence. Anal Methods 4:4250–4256
Al-Mashat L, Shin K, Kalantar-zadeh K, Plessis JD, Han SH, Kojima RW, Kaner RB, Li D, Gou X
(2010) Graphene/polyaniline nanocomposite for hydrogen sensing. J Phys Chem
114:16168–16173
Bagheri A, Taghizadeh M, Behbahani M, Asgharinezhad AA, Salarian M, Dehghani A,
Ebrahimzadeh H, Amini MM (2012) Synthesis and characterization of magnetic metal-organic
framework (MOF) as a novel sorbent, and its optimization by experimental design methodology
for determination of palladium in environmental samples. Talanta 99:132–139
Brumfiel G (2003) Nanotechnology: a little knowledge. Nature 424:246–248
Cao YC, Jin R, Mirkin CA (2002) Array-based electrical detection of DNA with nanoparticle
probes. Science 297:1536–1540
Chae HK, Perez DYS, Kim J, Go Y, Eddaoudi M, Matzger AJ, O’Keeffe M, Yaghi OM (2004)
Critical factors influencing the structures and properties of metal–organic frameworks. Nature
427:523–525
Chen X, Parker SG, Zou G, Su W, Zhang Q (2010) β-Cyclodextrin-functionalized silver
nanoparticles for the naked eye detection of aromatic isomers. ACS Nano 4:6387–6394
Choi H, Stathatos E, Dionysiou DD (2007) Photocatalytic TiO 2 films and membranes for the
development of efficient wastewater treatment and reuse systems. Desalination 202:199–206
Cloete TE (2010) Nanotechnology in water treatment applications. Horizon Scientific Press,
New York, p 196., ISBN-13: 9781904455660
Crittenden JC, Trussell RR, David W, Hand P, Howe KJ, Tchobanoglous G (2005) Water
treatment: principles and design. Wiley, New York, p 1968., ISBN-13: 9780471110187
Daniel MC, Astruc D (2004) Gold nanoparticles: assembly, supramolecular chemistry, quantumsize-related properties, and applications toward biology, catalysis, and nanotechnology. Chem
Rev 104:293–346
Daniel WL, Han MS, Lee J, Mirkin CA (2009) Colorimetric nitrite and nitrate detection with gold
nanoparticle probes and kinetic end points. J Am Chem Soc 131:6362–6363
Dasary SSR, Singh AK, Senapati D, Yu H, Ray PC (2009) Gold nanoparticle based label-free SERS
probe for ultrasensitive and selective detection of trinitrotoluene. J Am Chem Soc
131:13806–13812
DeFriend KA, Wiesner MR, Barron AR (2003) Alumina and aluminate ultrafiltration membranes
derived from alumina nanoparticles. J Membr Sci 224:11–28
Douglas KR, Alexander S (2008) Electronically monitoring biological interactions with carbon
nanotube field-effect transistor. Chem Soc Rev 37:1197–1206
Dousová B, Grygar T, Martaus A, Fuitová L, Kolousek D, Machovic V (2006) Sorption of As
(V) on aluminosilicates treated with Fe
II nanoparticles. J Colloid Interface Sci 302:424–431
Du D, Liu J, Zhang X, Cui X, Lin Y (2011) One-step electrochemical deposition of a grapheneZrO 2 nanocomposite: preparation, characterization and application for detection of organophosphorus agents. J Mater Chem 21:8032–8037
84
A. Kaur