Nanotechnology-based Sensors for Detection of Environmental Pollution

Nanotechnology-Based Sensors for Detection of Environmental Pollution discusses the use of nanotechnology to generate sensors capable of performing efficient detection of different types of environmental pollutants. Sections explore environmental pollution as a threat to life on Earth, the main contaminants (inorganic, organic or pathogens), and the risk they represent to living beings. Others are dedicated to nanotechnology, allowing pollutants’ detection, a brief history of nanotechnology-based sensors, different types of nanotechnology-based sensor (optical, electrochemical, and magnetic), nanotechnology-based sensors’ design and fabrication, nano biosensors, and more. Additional sections focus on important specific pollutants (pesticides, heavy metal, dyes, toxic gas, pharmaceutical waste, petroleum hydrocarbons, and pathogenic microbes) and their detection by nanotechnology-based sensors and important nanomaterials in nanotechnology-based sensors, exploring carbon-based and non-carbon-based material in nanoscale (graphene, carbon nanotubes, quantum dots, magnetic nanomaterials, non-magnetic nanoparticles) and also point-of-care sensors and functionalization to generate optimized nanotechnology-based sensors to pollutants’ detection.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 – Environmental contaminants 1. Environmental pollution: a worldwide threat 2. Main inorganic pollutants and their risk to living beings 3. Main organic pollutants and their risk to living beings 4. Main biological contaminants endangering humans’ health 5. The importance of detecting pollutants to sustainability Part 2 – Nanotechnology and pollutants’ detection 6. Brief history of nanotechnology-based sensors 7. Optical nanotechnology-based sensors for environmental contaminants’ detection 8. Electrochemical nanotechnology-based sensors for environmental contaminants’ detection 9. Magnetic nanotechnology-based sensors for environmental contaminants’ detection 10. Nanotechnology-based sensors’ design and fabrication 11. Nano biosensors to detect environmental pollution Part 3 - Relevant pollutants and their detection by nanotechnology-based sensors 12. Pesticides detection by nanotechnology-based sensors 13. Heavy metal detection by nanotechnology-based sensors 14. Dyes detection by nanotechnology-based sensors 15. Toxic gases detection by nanotechnology-based sensors 16. Pharmaceuticals and other emerging contaminants’ detection by nanotechnology-based sensors 17. Petroleum hydrocarbons detection by nanotechnology-based sensors 18. Pathogenic microbial contamination detection by nanotechnology-based sensors Part 4 – Important nanomaterials in nanotechnology-based sensors 19. Graphene-based sensors to detect environmental contaminants 20. Carbon nanotubes-based sensors to detect environmental contaminants 21. Quantum dots-based sensors to detect environmental contaminants 22. Magnetic Nanomaterials-based sensors to detect environmental contaminants 23. Non-magnetic nanoparticles-based sensor to detect environmental contaminants 24. Point-of-care nanotechnology-based sensors for environmental pollutants 25. Functionalization of nanomaterials to generate optimized nanotechnology-based sensors to pollutants’ detection Part 5 – Relevant practical aspects related to nanotechnology-based sensors 26. Advantages and challenges of nanotechnology-based sensors 27. Scientific barriers on exploiting the maximum performance from nanomaterial in sensors and feasible strategies to overcome difficulties 28. Safety on the Management of Nanomaterials 29. Nanomaterial’s biocompatibility 30. Economic and commercial aspects related to nanotechnology-based sensors 31. Sustainability and green nanomaterials on nanotechnology-based sensors

About the Author :
Dr. Fernanda Maria Policarpo Tonelli (Ph.D) is specialized in biotechnology/molecular biology and has been studying nanomaterials applications such as delivery and remediation. She has worked with engineered viral particles and nanomaterials functionalized by different protocols (gold nanorods, carbon nanotubes, carbon-dots, nanoparticles, nanographene oxide) that resulted in 10 patent applications. She teaches topics related to biochemistry and biotechnology/molecular biology to graduate students as an associate professor at Federal University of São João del Rei. Dr. Tonelli has edited and/or authored 3 books, has reviewed various articles/book proposals, has authored 12 scientific articles and more than 20 book chapters from international publishers. The main topics addressed in the publications are: nanomaterials, gene delivery strategies, remediation strategies and cell signaling. She has presented and participated in numerous national and international conferences and has also had the opportunity to contribute to the organization of various scientific events. Dr. Tonelli has also dedicated herself to promote Science and Technology co-funding an ONG with this purpose and also joining a scientific divulgation group composed only by women. She has had her efforts as a researcher recognized by various awards (including For Women in Science Brazil-L’Oreal/UNESCO/ABC and Under30 Brazil – Forbes) and certificates of merit. Dr. Arpita Roy (Ph.D) is working as an Assistant Professor in Sharda University, Greater Noida, India. Her specialization is in plant biotechnology, nanobiotechnology, environmental biotechnology and microbiology. She has been teaching graduate and post graduate students of biotechnology. She has taught topics related to plant biotechnology, microbiology, bioprocess engineering and solid waste management. She has authored more than 50 scientific articles and 18 book chapters from international publishers and edited 2 books. She has presented and participated in numerous state, national and international conferences, seminars, workshops and symposium. She has received the Commendable Research Award for excellence in research during the year 2019 and 2020- DTU. She has served as editorial board member and reviewer of reputed international journals. Dr. Munir Ozturk (Ph.D) holds Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees from the Ege University, Turkiye. He is currently acting as the “Vice President of the Islamic World Academy of Sciences”and is also Fellow of the Islamic World Academy of Science. Dr. Ozturk has been honored as the “Foreign Fellow Pakistan Academy of Science”. He has served at the Ege University-Turkiye for more than 50 years in different positions, has been Founder Director of the Centre for Environmental Studies, Ege University, and Chairman of the Botany Department and Director of the Botanical Garden. Sideritis ozturkii and Verbascum ozturkii are 2 newly recorded endemic plant species from Turkiye in his name. His fields of scientific interest are; pollution & biomonitoring; biosaline agriculture; plant ecophysiology, medicinal and aromatic plants conservation. Dr. Ozturk has published almost 60 books with internationally known publishers including Springer, Elsevier,Taylor & Francis, Wiley and few others. His biodata shows more than 90 book chapters and 200 papers in international journals; 120 with impact factor. He has also presented 125 papers at the International Meetings and 85 at the National Meetings. Dr. Munir has served as a guest editor for more than 13 journals; holds more than 20 Memberships of “Institutions and Professional Bodies”; has been recognized by more than 12 “National and International Bodies”; has received fellowships from the globally recognized Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Japanese Society for Promotion of Science, and the National Science Foundation of the USA. He has also worked as consultant fellow at the Faculty of Forestry, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia; and as Distinguished Visiting Scientist at International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences, ICCBS-TWAS, Karachi University, Pakistan. H. C. Ananda Murthy is a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry in the Department of Applied Chemistry at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae, Papua New Guinea. His areas of research interest covers the synthesis and application of composite materials and nanomaterials for biomedical, sensor, and environmental applications.