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Volume 2: Applications
Edited by
Shakeel Ahmed
Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain
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ISBN 978-1-119-52836-4
Sustainable development is a very prevalent concept of modern society. The concept has appeared as a critical force in marrying a special focus on development and growth by maintaining a balance of using resources between human beings and the ecosystem in which they are living. The developments of new and advanced materials are one of the most powerful efforts in establishing this concept. Overall, sustainable development is an internationally acknowledged directive and it includes green and environmental-friendly manufacturing materials and practices. Such practices orchestrate with the self-healing and self-replenishing capability of natural ecosystems. Green manufacturing encompasses synthesis, processing, fabrication, and process optimization, but also testing, performance evaluation and reliability. Similarly, future progress in these materials area will critically depend on our commitment with the sustainable exercises in research and technology. This book, divided into 2 parts provides a detailed overview of the status of advanced and sustainable materials for future of science and engineering.
Green and sustainable advanced materials are the newly synthesised 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, food, construction, textile, and many more. Several advanced materials having novel properties have been reported such as biomaterials, nanomaterials, metal oxides, polymers etc. Some of them have natural origin such as plants, animals, minerals, ore etc. or extracted from plants and exist in different geometrical form and have flexibility to form a composite with other material for the specific application. Whereas, some are synthesised synthetically in required shape and size according to the demands, the superior properties of advanced material make them suitable for various forms. The objective of this book is to provide an overview of new developments and state-of-the-art for a variety of green and sustainable advanced materials.
To place all of the collective understanding about green and sustainable advanced materials into perspective, add a touch of reality to the concepts, and to cover extensive expansion of the green and sustainable advanced materials, the book is divided into two volumes and each volume has subdivisions of several chapters. Volume 1 mainly discusses Processing and Characterization while Volume 2 is focused on the Applications of green and sustainable advanced materials.
In the first volume, the first chapter presents an overview and characterization of green and sustainable advanced materials. The subsequent chapters encompass details of biopolymers and biocomposite materials and nanomaterials. Subsequent chapters describe biogenic approaches for SiO2 nanostructures nanofabrication, polymer and composite materials, design and processing aspects of polymer and composite materials. The following chapters incorporate seaweed-based binder in wood composites, coloration and functional finishing of textile materials using natural resources. The final two chapters discuss advances in bio-nanohybrid materials, selenium nanoparticles and their biotechnological applications.
In the second volume, the first presents a critical review of green sustainability, nanotechnology and advanced materials and provides a vision for the future. Valorization of green and sustainable advanced materials from a biomedical perspective and their potential applications are detailed in the next chapters. Applications of green and sustainable advanced materials in textile technology and environmental protection are described in a very comprehensive manner in the next batch of chapters. Synthesized nanostructures alloys for optoelectronic, biochar-supercapacitors, biomedical from synthetic and natural green and sustainable advanced materials green and sustainable advanced materials are then covered. Efficiency of transition metals at the nanoscale - as heterogeneous catalysts and emerging applications of green and sustainable advanced materials in agriculture and food industry take center stage in final two of chapters.
In conclusion, both volumes incorporate in-depth technical information without compromising the delicate link between factual data and fundamental concepts or between theory and practice.
Overall, this book is planned to be a reference book for researchers and scientists who are searching for new sustainable advanced materials. The contributors are well-known researchers and scientists of materials science and engineering. We are very thankful to the chapter authors for their enthusiastic efforts in the making of this book. Finally, we extend our thanks to Wiley-Scrivener for publishing the book.
Shakeel Ahmed & Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain (Editors)
June 2018