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Advanced Materials for Agriculture, Food, and Environmental Safety

ISBN: 978-1-118-77390-1

August 2014

528 pages

Description


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
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.