Chapter 7
Earth Abundant Materials
for Environmental Remediation
and Commercialization
J. Nimita Jebaranjitham, Adhimoorthy Prasannan,
K. Sankarasubramanian, K. S. Prakash, and Baskaran Ganesh Kumar
Abstract Environmental remediation is a process of eliminating the toxic materials
from living area of plants, animals and humans. The toxic materials contaminants
air, water and land and made earth not habitable. The solutions for the environmental
remediation should be renewable and sustainable in long term. The pressing issue is
that water is heavily contaminated with industrials pollutants due to growing industrialization. Many technologies are being developed for the water remediation
problem such as filtration, oxidation, reduction, catalysis and many more. Among
that heterogenous photocatalysis found to be effective and it has potential of solving
the water remediation problem which means the solution for water remediation
should be commercialisable. Herein, we explain the importance of heterogenous
catalysis in the environmental remediation and also explain the present status of
state-of-art materials and current advanced materials for water remediation. For the
viable commercialization, we predicted that material abundance being major challenge. The focus of the present work is to explore potential of photocatalytic
J. Nimita Jebaranjitham
P.G. Department of Chemistry, Women’s Christian College (An Autonomous Institution
Affiliated to University of Madras), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
A. Prasannan
Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology, National Taiwan University of Science
and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
K. Sankarasubramanian
School of Physics, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
K. S. Prakash
Department of Chemistry, Bharathidasan Government College for Women (Autonomous)
(Affiliated to Pondicherry University, Pondicherry), Muthialpet, Puducherry U.T, India
B. G. Kumar (*)
Department of Chemistry, P.S.R. Arts and College (Affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University,
Madurai), Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, India
Department of Science and Humanities, P.S.R. Engineering College (Affiliated to Anna
University, Chennai), Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, India
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
S. Rajendran et al. (eds.), Metal, Metal-Oxides and Metal-Organic Frameworks for
Environmental Remediation, Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World 64,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68976-6_7
195
Earth Abundant Materials
for Environmental Remediation
and Commercialization
J. Nimita Jebaranjitham, Adhimoorthy Prasannan,
K. Sankarasubramanian, K. S. Prakash, and Baskaran Ganesh Kumar
Abstract Environmental remediation is a process of eliminating the toxic materials
from living area of plants, animals and humans. The toxic materials contaminants
air, water and land and made earth not habitable. The solutions for the environmental
remediation should be renewable and sustainable in long term. The pressing issue is
that water is heavily contaminated with industrials pollutants due to growing industrialization. Many technologies are being developed for the water remediation
problem such as filtration, oxidation, reduction, catalysis and many more. Among
that heterogenous photocatalysis found to be effective and it has potential of solving
the water remediation problem which means the solution for water remediation
should be commercialisable. Herein, we explain the importance of heterogenous
catalysis in the environmental remediation and also explain the present status of
state-of-art materials and current advanced materials for water remediation. For the
viable commercialization, we predicted that material abundance being major challenge. The focus of the present work is to explore potential of photocatalytic
J. Nimita Jebaranjitham
P.G. Department of Chemistry, Women’s Christian College (An Autonomous Institution
Affiliated to University of Madras), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
A. Prasannan
Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology, National Taiwan University of Science
and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
K. Sankarasubramanian
School of Physics, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
K. S. Prakash
Department of Chemistry, Bharathidasan Government College for Women (Autonomous)
(Affiliated to Pondicherry University, Pondicherry), Muthialpet, Puducherry U.T, India
B. G. Kumar (*)
Department of Chemistry, P.S.R. Arts and College (Affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University,
Madurai), Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, India
Department of Science and Humanities, P.S.R. Engineering College (Affiliated to Anna
University, Chennai), Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, India
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
S. Rajendran et al. (eds.), Metal, Metal-Oxides and Metal-Organic Frameworks for
Environmental Remediation, Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World 64,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68976-6_7
195