Green and Sustainable Advanced Materials, Volume 2

Applications

Shakeel Ahmed, Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain, Shakeel Ahmed, Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain

• Publisher: Wiley-Scrivener
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781119528364
• eBook ISBN: 9781119528494
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Biotechnology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Sustainable development is a very prevalent concept of modern society. This concept has appeared as a critical force in combining a special focus on development and growth by maintaining a balance of using human resources and the ecosystem in which we are living. The development of new and advanced materials is one of the powerful examples in establishing this concept. Green and sustainable advanced materials are the newly synthesized material or existing modified material having superior and special properties. These fulfil today's growing demand for equipment, machines and devices with better quality for an extensive range of applications in various sectors such as paper, biomedical, textile, and much more.

Volume 2, provides chapters on the valorization ofgreen and sustainable advanced materials from a biomedical perspective as well as the applications in textile technology, optoelectronics, energy materials systems, and the food and agriculture industry.

Chapter 1
Green Sustainability, Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials – A Critical Overview and a Vision for the Future

Sukanchan Palit¹ and Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain^2*

¹Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

²Department of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA

*Corresponding author: [email protected]

Abstract

The human civilization is moving forward towards a visionary era of scientific vision and scientific regeneration. Technological and scientific advancements are replete with deep scientific understanding and scientific profundity. Sustainability today stands in the midst of deep crisis. Energy and environmental sustainability are the utmost need of the hour for the progress of human civilization today. Global water shortage and contamination of groundwater are destroying the vast scientific landscape and the scientific research pursuit of human civilization. Today, sustainable development is the cornerstone of scientific destiny and deep scientific advancement. In this treatise, the authors pointedly focuses on the success of green sustainability, the vast applications of nanotechnology and the innovative domain of advanced nanomaterials. Global water research and development initiatives are the other cornerstones of this scientific endeavour. Green sustainability and environmental sustainability are the forerunners of human mankind today. This treatise widely researches on the deep crisis of green sustainability and the catastrophe behind heavy metal and arsenic groundwater contamination. The authors also delve deep into the latent areas of advanced materials and green engineering with the sole purpose of furtherance of science and technology. Science today is a huge colossus with a definite and purposeful vision of its own. Nanotechnology is today surpassing vast and versatile scientific frontiers. This treatise elucidates on the high scientific potential and the scientific success of nanotechnology and advanced materials application today. This chapter veritably opens up new avenues of scientific thoughts and scientific vision in the areas of sustainability and nanotechnology applications.

Keywords: Vision, sustainability, green, nanotechnology, materials

1.1 Introduction

The vision of human scientific endeavour and the progress of human civilization are moving at a rapid and drastic pace towards a newer world of energy and environmental sustainability. Environmental restrictions and stringent regulations are challenging the domain of environmental engineering science today. Global water challenges and the paucity of pure drinking water has urged the scientific domain to yearn towards scientific innovation and deep scientific vision. Human mankind today stands in the midst of deep scientific introspection and wide scientific innovations. In this treatise, the author rigorously points out the success of application of nanotechnology in tackling water issues and the vexing issue of sustainability. The success of human mankind today lies in the hand of energy and environmental sustainability. Successful sustainability is the utmost need of the hour. In a similar vein, green sustainability is the wonder of human civilization today. Green sustainability today also encompasses energy and environmental sustainability. The scientific success and the deep scientific potential of nanotechnology and sustainability are the torchbearers of scientific vision of this treatise.

1.2 The Aim and Objective of This Study

The advancement of human civilization today depends on the provision of basic human needs such as water, power and food. Here comes the importance of sustainable development and the progress of scientific rigour. The aim and objective of this study targets sustainable development and the application of advanced materials to human society. The challenge and the vision of this study also encompasses the recent advancement in nanotechnology. Nanovision and nanotechnology emancipation are changing the scientific fabric of human civilization and the deep scientific vision. The vital content of this study is on the importance of global water issues, sustainability and the application of nanotechnology in human progress. The author pointedly focuses on the wide concept of green sustainability with the ultimate vision of furtherance of science and technology. Heavy metal and arsenic groundwater contamination are the tremendously important and vexing issues facing human civilization today. Technological profundity is today in a state of deep disaster. In such a crucial juxtaposition of scientific history and scientific vision, the author trudges a visionary as well as a weary path in the true realization of green and environmental sustainability. Sustainability in itself stands on the bedrock of scientific introspection and scientific forbearance. The challenge of this treatise goes beyond scientific imagination and scientific profundity as the authors, with deep and cogent insight, pursued the scientific success and the scientific potential of energy and environmental sustainability.

1.3 The Need and the Rationale of This Study

The vision and science of green and environmental sustainability are vast and versatile today. Nanotechnology is the only pivotal answer towards the successful realization of green and environmental sustainability today. Environmental restrictions and environmental and ecological crisis are urging the scientific domain to target innovations and advancements in environmental engineering, chemical process engineering and nanotechnology. Human scientific research pursuits are today in a state of deep comprehension and vision. Science and engineering today are moving at a drastic pace. Scientific regeneration and scientific rejuvenation are the cornerstones of research pursuit in environmental sustainability today. The environment of human planet is at a state of immense disaster. Thus the immense need and the rationale of this treatise. Nanovision and nanotechnology are the other needs of this study. Green sustainability and environmental sustainability have urged the scientific domain to gear forward towards a newer visionary era in the field of alternate energy sources and renewable energy technology. Petroleum engineering science today stands in the midst of deep scientific failure and vision with the depletion of fossil fuel sources. The need and the rationale thus arises in the field of innovation in renewable energy technology such as wind energy, solar energy, biomass energy and wave energy. In this treatise, the author holistically targets the success of energy sustainability and the true realization of energy technology to our human society.

1.4 Environmental and Green Sustainability

Environmental disasters and loss of ecological biodiversity are challenging the scientific landscape of human civilization today. Technological profundity and scientific motivation is at stake. Thus the need for environmental and green sustainability. The challenge and the vision of science and engineering are immense in today’s world. Sustainable development is the need of the hour. Global water research and development initiatives are the other side of the visionary coin today. Mankind’s immense scientific prowess, the vast domain of futuristic technological vision and the needs of human society will veritably open up new dimensions in scientific research in water technology in the decades to come. Green engineering is the next generation target of human scientific endeavour. Today environmental sustainability encompasses (1) how the human civilization can sustain, (2) the capabilities that the natural environment has, to maintain the living conditions for people and other species, (3) the aspects of environment that produce renewable resources such as water, wood, fish, solar energy, (4) the functioning of society, despite non-renewable resource depletion, and (5) the quality of better and holistic life for all people. Adams [1] elucidated in great detail green development, environment and sustainability in the developing world. The authors in this treatise discussed with deep and cogent insight the origins of sustainable development, the dilemma of today’s sustainability, the development of sustainable development, mainstream sustainable development, countercurrents in sustainable development, dryland political ecology, sustainable forests, sustainability and river control, and reformism or radicalism in green development. This is a visionary scientific endeavour. The authors rigorously focus on the present state of sustainability with the sole objective of furtherance of science and engineering. Environmental and green sustainability are the major issues which need to be tackled in the future scientific research pursuit of human society today. Global water shortage, drinking water crisis and industrial wastewater treatment are the vital components of scientific research pursuit in environmental engineering today. This treatise is well researched and opens up new technological dimensions in the field of green and environmental sustainability in future.

1.5 The Scientific Doctrine of Green Sustainability and Green Engineering

Green sustainability and green engineering are the pallbearers towards a greater emancipation of futuristic science today. Human civilization today stands in the midst of deep scientific introspection and scientific vision. Green engineering is the scientific notion of today’s scientific endeavour. Scientific cognizance, scientific profundity and technological vision are the forerunners towards a newer visionary era in the field of green sustainability and nanotechnology. Mankind’s wide scientific prowess, the success of human scientific endeavour and the futuristic vision of engineering science will all lead a long and visionary way in the true realization of environmental engineering science and green sustainability today. The science of sustainability today is a huge colossus with a definite and vision of its own. In this treatise, the author pointedly focuses on the vast scientific success, scientific vision and the scientific forbearance behind green sustainability and nanotechnology.

1.6 Scientific Vision and Scientific Doctrine of Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology and technology dimensions are today revolutionizing the scientific landscape of scientific vision and deep scientific cognizance. Green science and green engineering are the pallbearers of today’s scientific pursuit in every avenue of technological advancements today. Human civilization today is in a state of immense scientific fortitude and scientific forbearance. The challenge and vision of scientific endeavour in the field of nanotechnology and green technology are opening up new vistas of research pursuit in the decades to come. Nanotechnology is a revolutionary branch of science today. But till today science and engineering have few answers to the intricacies of nanotechnology. Validation of science is of equal importance in the research pursuit in nanotechnology.

1.7 What Do You Mean by Advanced Materials?

Advanced materials are the smart materials of the present day human civilization. Scientific profundity and scientific vision are the cornerstones towards a greater visionary era in the field of material science today. Advanced materials can be defined in different ways. The broadest definition is to refer all the materials that represent advances over the traditional materials that have been used for hundreds or even thousands of years. A more insightful definition of advanced materials is to consider materials that are early in their product and technology life-cycle. Technological profundity and scientific validation are the cornerstones of research pursuit today. This treatise targets the vision of material science and nanotechnology in a deeply introspective form and brings before the reader the vast scientific success and challenges in nanotechnology applications in human society.

1.8 The World of Advanced Materials Today

Material science and nanotechnology today are in the state of immense scientific regeneration and scientific vision. Scientific fortitude, scientific enshrinement and the technological advancements in nanotechnology are the torchbearers towards a newer visionary eon in green and environmental sustainability. Advanced materials and green materials are the necessities of the hour in our present day human civilization. Advanced materials are today linked with membrane science with much durable membrane materials. Engineering science and scientific fervour need to be re-envisioned in today’s scientific avenues and scientific rejuvenation. Advanced materials are today reframing the entire concept of smart materials. The authors deeply comprehend in this treatise the wide scientific vision, the scientific excellence and the scientific forbearance in nanotechnology applications in true realization of green sustainability. Sustainability issues will always be relevant in the scientific progress and the future of scientific and academic rigour. Today, science is a huge colossus with a deep vision of its own. Application of advanced materials in a similar manner is widely challenged and needs to be scientifically restructured with the passage of scientific history and scientific timeframe.

1.9 Recent Scientific Endeavour in the Field of Green Sustainability

Scientific vision in the field of green sustainability is in a state of immense distress as well as deep comprehension. The challenge of science is opening up new avenues of research emancipation in the field of nanotechnology today. Environmental, energy and green sustainability today stands in the midst of a watershed era in science and technology. Scientific exhilaration and scientific profundity are today encompassed by the needs of human society which are energy, electricity and water. The excellence of science and technology is today replete with vision and forbearance. Industrial wastewater tr...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Green Sustainability, Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials – A Critical Overview and a Vision for the Future
• Chapter 2: Valorization of Green and Sustainable Advanced Materials from A Biomed Perspective – Potential Applications
• Chapter 3: Applications of Textile Materials Using Emerging Sources and Technology: A New Perspective
• Chapter 4: Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials: Applications and Environmental Issues
• Chapter 5: Chitosan in Water Purification Technology
• Chapter 6: Green and Sustainable Advanced Materials – Environmental Applications
• Chapter 7: Green and Sustainable Copper-Based Nanomaterials – An Environmental Perspective
• Chapter 8: An Excellence Method on Starch-Based Materials: A Promising Stage for Environmental Application
• Chapter 9: Synthesized Cu2Zn1-xCdxSnS4 Quinternary Alloys Nanostructures for Optoelectronic Applications
• Chapter 10: Biochar Supercapacitors: Recent Developments in the Materials and Methods
• Chapter 11: Nature and Technoenergy
• Chapter 12: Biomedical Applications of Synthetic and Natural Biodegradable Polymers
• Chapter 13: Efficiency of Transition Metals at Nanoscale - as Heterogeneous Catalysts
• Chapter 14: Applications of Nanomaterials in Agriculture and Food Industry
• Index
• End User License Agreement