Advanced Functional Nanoparticles "Boon or Bane" for Environment Remediation Applications

Chapter 1. Advanced Nanomaterials: From Properties and Perspective Applications, to Their Interlinked Confronts (Chitven Sharma).- Chapter 2. Advanced  Nanoparticles: Boon or a Bane for Environmental Remediation Applications (Deepak Rohilla).- Chapter 3. Nanomaterials in Environment: Sources, Risk Assessment and Safety Aspect (Ashpreet Kaur).- Chapter 4. Environmental Fate descriptors for screening Nanotoxicity and pollutant sensing (Pooja Chauhan).- Chapter 5. Nanomaterials in Combating Water Pollution and Related Ecotoxicological Risk (Teenu Jasrotia).- Chapter 6. Nanotechnology: Emerging Opportunities and Regulatory Aspects in Water Treatment (Yogita Lugani).- Chapter 7. Nanoparticles in Dye Degradation: Achievement and Confronts (Rekha Dhull).- Chapter 8. Safe Appraisal of Carbon Nanoparticles in Pollutant Sensing (Manisha Kumari).- Chapter 9. Advanced Nanomaterials in Biomedicine: Benefits and Challenges (Avtar Singh).- Chapter 10. New Perspectives application and hazards ofNanomaterials in aquatic environment (Renuka Chaudhary).- Chapter 11. Risk Governance Policies for Sustainable Use of Nanomaterials (Pooja Chauhan).- Chapter 12. Misconceptions in Nanotoxicity Measurements: Exploring Facts to Strengthen Ecosafe Environmental Remediation (Chitven Sharma).

Dr Raman Kumar is working as Senior Associate Professor in Department of Biotechnology, Maharishi Markendeshwar (Deemed to be University), Mullana (Ambala), Haryana, India Since 2011. He has also worked as Senior Research Fellow, Division of Soil and Crop Management, Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal, India from 2007 to 2010.  He has experience of about 17 years in the field of Teaching and Research in the area of Microbial and Environmental Biotechnology. He has published more than 65 publications and 03 books in Various National and International Peer Reviewed Journals. He is also the Associate Editor for the research Journal "Current Trends in Biotechnology and Chemical Research" (eISSN 2321-0265;pISSN 2249-4073) which we initiated from this University (M.M. (Deemed to be University) which is currently indexed in many reputed databases including CAS, Medical Journal Links etc. He has been working in area of Environmental Biotechnology and also get Major project from Haryana DST in the area of Environmental Microbiology. He developed many bacterial and fungal strains for removal of heavy metals from wastewater. His current research areas are Bioremediation and Biodegradation of toxic pollutants, Pesticides and azo dyes using microbial consortium from the industrial Effluents, Mechanism involved in the heavy metal bioremediation.
Dr. Rajeev Kumar is a permanent faculty at the Department of Environment Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh since July 2010. Dr. Kumar obtained his Ph.D degree in Chemistry from the Department of Chemistry, Panjab University, Chandigarh during which he published various research articles in journal of international repute. His laboratory focuses on the eco-friendly removal of environmental pollutants, specifically on the fungal remediation of recalcitrant compounds. His research group makes use of different modern technologies based on organometallics and nano- chemistry for this purpose. Dr. Kumar