Advanced Materials for Agriculture Food and Environmental Safety

The book focuses on the role of advanced materials in the food, water and environmental applications. The monitoring of harmful organisms and toxicants in water, food and beverages is mainly discussed in the respective chapters. The senior contributors write on the following topics:

Layered double hydroxides and environment
Corrosion resistance of aluminium alloys of silanes
New generation material for the removal of arsenic from water
Prediction and optimization of heavy clay products quality
Enhancement of physical and mechanical properties of fiber
Environment friendly acrylates latices
Nanoparticles for trace analysis of toxins
Recent development on gold nanomaterial as catalyst
Nanosized metal oxide based adsorbents for heavy metal removal
Phytosynthesized transition metal nanoparticles- novel functional agents for textiles
Kinetics and equilibrium modeling
Magnetic nanoparticles for heavy metal removal
Potential applications of nanoparticles as antipathogens
Gas barrier properties of biopolymer based nanocomposites: Application in food packing
Application of zero-valent iron nanoparticles for environmental clean up
Environmental application of novel TiO2 nanoparticles