Nanostructured Materials for Environmental Applications

Emerging Nanostructured Materials for Environmental Remediation - An Overview.- Nanostructures in Photocatalysis - Opportunities and Challenges for Environmental Applications.- Rising Hierarchical Nanostructured Materials for Environmental Remediation.- Nanomaterials for Photocatalytic Decomposition of Toxic Pollutants in Air.- Nanomaterials for Photocatalytic Decomposition of Pharmaceuticals in Water.- Nanostructured Materials-based Sensors.- II-VI Material-based Nanostructures for Pollutant Degradation.- Advances in Conducting Polymer Nanocomposites in Shielding of Electromagnetic Pollution.- Magnetically Separable Nanocatalysts for Photocatalytic Degradation.- Nano-structuring of Hybrid Materials Using Wrapping to Enhance the Efficiency of Visible-light-responsive Semiconductor Photocatalysts.- Soil remediation by (magnetic) Zero-valent Iron Nanoparticles for Organic Pollutant Elimination.- Recent Advances in Tungsten Disulfide Photocatalyst System with Homo/Hetero Junctions for Photocatalytic Performance.- Black TiO2: An Emerging Photocatalyst and Its Applications.- Metal Organic Frameworks: A New Generation Coordination Polymers for Visible Light Photocatalysis.- Carbonaceous Nanomaterials for Environmental Remediation.- Bi-Photocatalytic Efficiency of Bi-based Aurivillus Compounds: Critical Review and Discernment of the Factors Involved.- Co-catalyst Reinforced Photocatalysts in Environmental Cleanup: Fundamentals and Perspectives.- Summary and Future Perspectives of Materials and Technologies for Remediation.

Prof. S. Balakumar, FRSC, FASCh., is a Professor and the Director of the National Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Madras. He is a distinguished academician and a researcher par excellence in the field nanoscience. He received his Ph.D in Faculty of Sciences, from the prestigious Anna University, India in 1996 and further escalated his research competence as a Post doctoral fellow with Prof. J.B.Xu, Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong from 1995-1997, and subsequently, worked as NSTB post doctoral fellow with Prof. Zeng Hua Chen, Department of Chemical Engineering, National University of Singapore from 1997-1999. His remarkable stint in industry began as a Senior Research Engineer in Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd, Singapore (now- Global Foundries, Singapore) till 2002 and consecutively worked as Senior Scientist at A-Star Institute of Microelectronics till 2008. In addition to his presence in industry he remained deeply connected with academia as an Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore from 2004-2008. With intense urge in academics, he joined the highly renowned NCNSNT, University of Madras during November 2008. Predictably, he established an unsurpassable academic footprint with more than 250 papers in Peer Reviewed Journals and also has more than 8 US patents to his Credit. He has published several book chapters and edited many books. His versatile administrative capabilities emblazoned by organizing 40 international and National conferences, workshops, seminar, short term courses and Seminars during past 12 years. His formidable research conduct fetched him the role of Associate Editor of Chemical Papers Journal (Springer) and serves as an Editorial Board Member for various journals. He has received more than 20 funded projects from various funding agencies. As an epitome of his credits he was recently