Elsevier Advanced Nanostructures for Environmental Health (Micro and Nano Technologies)

Product Description Advanced Nanostructures for Environmental Health shows how advanced nanostructures are used to meet the most important challenges of our age. The book presents examples of how advanced nanostructures can detect and remove pollutants and other contaminant harmful to people's health and provides examples of diagnosis tools based on advanced nanostructures. Treatment possibilities with the use of nanostructures, such as phototherapeutic applications, radiation based treatment methods, and drug delivery systems are also explored. Review An important resource for anyone who wants to learn about nanostructured materials and their use in important environmental and health challenges From the Back Cover Two of the biggest and most pressing issues facing our global society are climate change and age-related diseases like cancer or tissue degeneration. Such environmental health problems are due in part to a rising population and also due to advances in modern medicine, meaning that more people are living longer. Nanotechnology presents some potential solutions to these issues. In particular, applications of nanostructures in pollution control, drug delivery, energy harvesting, and storage are helping us to solve these problems. Advanced Nanostructures for Environmental Health Applications shows how advanced nanostructures are used to meet the most important challenges of our age. The book covers issues related to the application of advanced nanostructures to assess and control physical, chemical, and biological factors external to a person, and also the related factors impacting behaviors that can potentially affect health. Advantages and drawbacks of advanced nanostructures in environmental health applications together with outlooks on their future involvement are also pointed out throughout the book. Selected topics confirm that these new type nanostructures and materials are able to open innovative perspectives in environmental protection. Using the "toolkit" of nanotechnology, solutions can be provided for a great diversity of environmental problems, such as sensitive detection of organic pollutants, pharmaceutical and other contaminants of emerging concern, (heavy) metals and metalloids, gas molecules or removal of bacteria, viruses and other microbial entities, and also photocatalytic water and air cleaning. About the Author Lucian Baia is Senior Researcher and Associate Professor at the Centre of Nanostructured Materials and Bionanointerfaces, Institute of Interdisciplinary Research in Bio-Nano-Sciences, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. His research interests focus on materials with controllable morphology and structure for environmental and biomedical applications, including photocatalysis and tissue engineering. Zsolt Pap is a Researcher based at Bolyai University, Faculty of Physics, Department of Physics and Technology of Advanced Materials, Romania. His research interests lie in the areas of nanostructured materials and photoenergy. Klara Hernadi received her MSc degree in chemistry from the University of Szeged in 1983, PhD/Candidate of Chemical Science from the Hungarian Sciences in 1993, and Doctor of Chemical Science in 2004 (HAS). She had short-term employments at Texas A&M University, at Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (Namur Belgium) and at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Switzerland). Currently she is the leader of Research group of Environmental Chemistry as a full professor at University of Szeged. Her current research interest covers various topics in the field of nanocrystalline materials (carbon nanotubes, hollow semiconductors, nanocomposites, etc.). Monica Baia is Associate Professor of Molecular Spectroscopy at Babes-Bolyai University, Romania. Her research focuses on spectroscopy for pharmaceutical applications.