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Sustainable Carbon Nanomaterials and Their Applications explores the role of carbon-based nanomaterials in promoting global sustainability. With climate change and environmental concerns rising, the book highlights the need for high-performance, eco-friendly materials. It showcases the unique properties of carbon nanomaterials and their potential across energy, environmental remediation, biomedicine, catalysis, and computational sciences. Featuring insights from leading researchers, the book presents an integrated view of sustainable carbon nanomaterials, from their responsible sourcing and green synthesis methods to advanced characterization techniques and real-world applications. This resource is essential for scientists, engineers, and students in nanotechnology, materials science, and environmental engineering, emphasizing that carbon nanomaterials are key to building a cleaner, safer, and more sustainable future.
Key Features:
- Takes a critical approach to the topic of carbon nanomaterials
- Covers the sourcing of sustainable materials, their synthesis, characterization and classification
- Discusses the latest applications spanning biology to sensing, catalysis to green energy, and environmental/analytical applications
- Covers the identification of sustainable sources and how a sustainable source can be valorised to produce a nanomaterial
- Explains how sustainability can translate to green research efforts (from source to product)
Dr Rafik Naccache is an Associate Professor, Director of the Centre for NanoScience Research and a Concordia University Research Chair at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He obtained his PhD (2012) in Chemistry at Concordia University and carried out his NSERC postdoctoral training at l’Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique.
Dr Adedapo Adeola was awarded a PhD (2022) in Chemistry at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, with a thesis focused on the development of advanced carbon-based materials for water treatment applications. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for NanoScience Research at Concordia University focused on developing carbon nanomaterials/composites for contaminant detection and remediation.
- Introduction
- Classifications and chemistry of carbon nanomaterials
- Scalable synthesis and applications of carbon dots in sustainable technologies
- Revolutionizing carbon nanomaterial synthesis: computational approaches for sustainability
- Nanoremediation of chemical pollutants using green carbon nanomaterials
- Biomedical applications of carbon nanomaterials
- Detection of chemical contaminants using eco-friendly carbon nanomaterials
- Harnessing carbon-based materials for energy production and conversion