1st Edition

Emerging Nanomaterials for Catalysis and Sensor Applications

Edited By Anitha Varghese, Gurumurthy Hegde Copyright 2023
    300 Pages 157 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    This book reviews emerging nanomaterials in catalysis and sensors. The catalysis section covers the role of nano-photocatalysts in organic synthesis and health care application, oxidation and sulphoxidation reactions, liquid phase oxidation, hydrogen evolution and environmental remediation. It highlights the correlation of surface properties and catalytic activity of the mesoporous materials. The sensor section discusses the fabrication and development of various electrochemical, chemical, and biosensors.

    Features:

    • Combines catalysis and sensor applications of nanomaterials, including detailed synthesis techniques of these materials.
    • Explores methods of designing, engineering, and fabricating nanomaterials.
    • Covers material efficiency, their detection limit for sensing different analytes and other properties of the materials.
    • Discusses sustainability of nano materials in the industrial sector.
    • Includes case studies to address the challenges faced by research and development sectors.

    This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in Chemical Engineering, Nanochemistry, Water Treatment Engineering and Labs, Industries, Research Labs in Catalysis and Sensors, Environmental Engineering, and Process Engineering.

    SECTION I: Emerging Materials in Nanocatalysis

    Chapter 1: The Role of Nanomaterials in Sustainable Organic Synthesis
    Dileep Ramakrishna and Thitima Rujiralai

    Chapter 2: Nanocatalysts in Oxidation and Sulfoxidation Reactions
    Hanna S. Abbo, Tariq Shah, Divine M. Yufanyi, Nader G. Khaligh and Salam J.J. Titinchi

    Chapter 3: Correlation of Surface Properties and Catalytic Activity of Metal Aluminophosphates
    C.J. Binish and  A.V. Vijayasankar

    Chapter 4: Carbon Supported Noble Metal Nanocatalysts for Liquid Phase Oxidation Reactions
    Mabuatsela V. Maphoru

    Chapter 5: Metal Oxide Nanomaterials for Visible Light Photocatalysis
    G. Reenamole

    Chapter 6: Progress in Photocatalysis for Hydrogen Evolution and Environmental Remediation
    R. Shwetharani, M.S. Jyothi, M. Dinamani and S. Radoor

    SECTION II : Emerging Materials in Nanosensors

    Chapter 7: Nanostructured Materials for Sensors Applications
    Saravanan Chandrasekaran and Anu Sukhdev

    Chapter 8: Synthesis of Fluorescent Nanosensors for Biomedical Engineering
    Saba Farooq and Zainab Ngaini

    Chapter 9: Applications of Peptide Luminescent Nanosensors
    Tatiana Duque Martins Ertner de Almeida, DiƩricon Sousa Cordeiro, Ramon Miranda Silva, and Igor Lafaete de Freitas Pereira Morais

    Chapter 10: Graphene-Based Hybrid Nano Composites for Bio/Chemical Sensors
    C. Kavitha and Rapela R. Maphanga

    Chapter 11: Nanomaterial-Based Electrochemical Sensors for Vitamins and Hormones
    Anila Rose Cherian, Rijo Rajeev, M. Nidhin, Anitha Varghese, and Gurumurthy Hegde

    Chapter 12: Economic Analysis, Environmental Impact, Future Prospects and Mechanistic Understandings of Nanosensors and Nanocatalysis
    Libina Benny, Vinay Bhat, Ashlay George, Anitha Varghese, and Gurumurthy Hegde

    Biography

    Anitha Varghese obtained her PhD from Mangalore University, Karnataka, India in 2007, under the supervision of Dr A.M.A. Khader. Her PhD work concerned the sensing of heavy metal ions in various alloy steels, minerals, biological, soil, and water samples. In 2008, she started her career in CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, where she is a professor. Her current research interests include electrocatalysis for organic transformations and developing electrochemical sensors for biomolecules, flavonoids, pollutants, and food adulterants.

    Gurumurthy Hegde obtained his PhD in liquid crystals in 2007 from the Centre for Nanomaterials and Soft Matter Science, Bengaluru. Expert in photoalignment and waste to wealth technologies, Dr Hegde has more than 18 years of R and D experience. His major research is in the field of liquid crystals, LCDs, nanoparticles, energy, water, and health. He has invented many concepts for aligning materials, waste to wealth technologies, and so forth. Presently he is working as the Director, Centre for Advanced Research and Development (CARD), CHRIST (Deemed to be University) and also as the Professor of Materials Science, Dept of Chemistry, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru. He has published more than 220 scientific publications and has more than 25 patents. He also has obtained more than 60 international awards and guided many PhD and MSc, MTech students.