Spherical Cellulose Regeneration, Applications, and Technological Challenges

1. Spherical morphologies of cellulose: Introduction

Vibha Joshi, Vishwajeet Bachhar, Suman Lata, Manisha Duseja and Rajesh Haldhar

2. Environmental Sustainability Through Nanocellulose Applications

Heena Gupta and Perneta

3. Economic perspectives and industrial regulations about regenerated cellulose materials

Umesh Bhardwaj and Anil Khachi

4. Commercial Sources of Cellulose: Technological Challenges and Economic Viabilities in the Global Perspective

Sukhdeep Singh, Jatinder Basrani, Gulab Singh and Manjeet Singh

Section-A: Nano-spherical cellulose

5. Preparation and Characterization of Nano Spherical Cellulose

Ebenezer Oluwatosin Atoyebi, Oluwatosin David Abodunrin, Samson Kolawole Fasogbon, Ayodele James Oyejide and Temitope T. Dele-afolabi

6. Catalytic Nano-Spherical Cellulose Materials: (a) Organic Synthesis Technologies and (b) Catalytic Degradation Technologies

Vishwajeet Bachhar, Vibha Joshi, Manisha Duseja and Rajesh Haldhar

7. Food applications of nano-spherical cellulose

Muhammad Umar Ijaz, Amara Tahir, Quratulann Sattar, Muhammad Zaid Salar, Naila Ghafoor and Shumaila Kiran

8. Food applications of nano-spherical cellulose

Kalai Rajan Poomalaisundar, Sridevi Sankar, Ahamed Ibrahim Syed Maghdoom, Kavitha Duraisamy,⁵ Nithishkumar Sengottaiyan and Ruby Celsia Arul Selvaraj

9. Harnessing Spherical Nanocellulose for Next-Generation Energy Storage Systems

Rajni Verma, Mahapara Abbass, Shalom Akhai, Amandeep Singh Wadhwa and Amar Nath Sharma

Section-B: Cellulose microspheres

10. Regenerated Cellulose Microspheres: Preparation and Characterization

Oluwatosin David Abodunrin, Ebenezer Oluwatosin Atoyebi, Samson Kolawole Fasogbon, Ayodele James Oyejide, Tolulope Motunrayo Omotayo and Nnamdi Chukwunenye Igwe

11.  Degradation of pharmaceutical pollutants in wastewater via cellulose microsphere

Zarqua Hashmi, Abu Taha and Athar Adil Hashmi

12. Degradation of Synthetic Dyes Pollutants in Wastewaters via Cellulose Microspheres

Josue Abraham Lara Zavala, Silva Beltrán Eduardo and Naveen Kumar Reddy Bogireddy

13.Cellulose Microsphere-Based Strategies for Removing Organic Dyes from Wastewater

Rajni Verma, Kulbir Kaur, Mahapara Abbass, Shalom Akhai, Sachin Kumar Mandotra, Bikram Jit Singh and Rippin Sehgal

14. Pharmaceutical applications of cellulose microsphere

Tahreem Fatima, Shumaila Kiran, Rabia Azmat, Muhammad Sakander Majid, Maryam Jameel and Muhammad Umar Ijaz

Section-C: Cellulose beads

15. Separation and environmental applications of cellulose beads

Amara Tahir, Muhammad Umar Ijaz, Qamar Haneef, Muhammad Zaid Salar, Naila Ghafoor and Shumaila Kiran

16. Cellulose Beads’ Role in Drug Delivery Systems

Muntaha Mahin, Mir Abdul Gaffar and Md Rashedul Islam

17.  Regenerated cellulose-based wound dressing from waste-biomass: Source, preparation, characterization, and biomedical application

Popat Mohite, Riteshkumar Patil, Rajesh Bogati, Aishwarya Gorad and Sudarshan Singh

Biography

Mohd Shabbir is Assistant Professor at Department of Applied Sciences, CGC university Mohali, Punjab, India. Prior to this, he had been working as a post-doctoral fellow in the lab of Professor Xiaogang Luo at School of Chemical Engineering and Pharmacy, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, China. He worked there on regenerated cellulose materials for environmental remediation, sensing, and biomedical applications. He has also worked as an Assistant Professor in Sanskriti University Mathura, NIET, and GLBITM Greater Noida. He got his doctorate degree in the field of natural dyes application on textiles from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India in 2017. He has published several peer-reviewed scientific research articles of repute and six edited books with international publishers. Biopolymers, cellulose materials, biomaterials for adsorption and catalysis, wastewater treatment, and functional textiles are the current research interests of him.

Annu serves as Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, Yeungnam University, South Korea. Besides, she is an honorary Assistant Professor in Department of Science and Engineering in Novel Global Community Education Foundation, Australia. Dr Annu secured her doctoral degree in Chemistry from Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), New Delhi. She has gained further research experience as Research Associate from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. She has authored many scientific research articles in international peer-reviewed journals and book chapters with publishers of international repute. She has edited six books with Elsevier, Wiley and Taylor & Francis. She is an active member of  professionally societies like ACS, KSME, APA and IAAM. Her research focusses on fabrication and modification of sustainable bionanocomposites, biomaterials, green synthesis of nanoparticles, hybrid nanomaterials, modification in biopolymers and composite nanomaterials for their applications in biomedical, food packaging, nutraceuticals, energy storage devices, biosensors, textiles and environmental sustainability.