The functionalization of nanomaterials provides them with some unique properties, making the same nanomaterial amenable for various applications by simply manipulating functional components. However, functionalized nanomaterials also face some challenges, along with some encouraging new applications in the future. This book provides a detailed account of applications of the functionalization of nanomaterials.

This book can serve as a reference book for scientific investigators, including doctoral and post-doctoral scholars and undergraduate and graduate students, in context with the scope of applications of functionalized nanomaterials. It also highlights recent advances, challenges, and opportunities in the application of nanomaterials. This book will provide critical and comparative data for nanotechnologists. It may also be beneficial for multidisciplinary researchers, industry personnel, journalists, policy makers, and the common public to understand the scope of functionalized nanomaterials in detail and in depth.

Features:

• This book covers various applications of functionalized nanomaterials.
• It discusses recent global research trends and future applications of functionalized nanomaterials.
• It highlights the need for more rigorous regulatory frameworks for the safe use of functionalized nanomaterials.
• It contains contributions from international experts and will be a valuable resource for researchers.

About the Author:

Vineet Kumar is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, LPU, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. Previously he was Asst. Prof. at DAV University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India and UGC-Dr DSK postdoctoral fellow (2013-2016) at the Department of Chemistry and Centre for Advanced Studies in Chemistry (CAS), Panjab University, Chandigarh, U.T., India. He has worked in different area of biotechnology and nanotechnology in various institutes and universities namely, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, U.T., India, CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur, H.P. India and Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, H.P. India. His areas of interest include green synthesis of nanoparticles, nanotoxicity testing of nanoparticles and application of nanoparticles in drug delivery, food technology, sensing, dye degradation and catalysis. He has published many articles in these areas featuring in peer-reviewed journals. He is also serving as editorial board member and reviewer for international peer reviewed journals. He has received various awards like senior research fellowship, best poster award and postdoctoral fellowship etc. He is currently in the final stage of editing 2 books each for CRC, Taylor & Francis and Springer-Nature.

Praveen Guleria is presently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at DAV University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. She has worked in the areas of Plant Biotechnology, Plant Metabolic Engineering and Plant Stress Biology at CSIR- Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur, H.P. India. Her research interests include plant stress biology, plant small RNA Biology, plant epigenomics and nanotoxicity. She has published several research articles in various peer-reviewed journals. She is also serving as the editorial board member and reviewer for certain international peer reviewed journals. She has been awarded the SERB- Start Up Grant by DST, GOI. She has also been awarded the prestigious Bharat Gaurav Award in 2016 by the India International Friendship Society, New Delhi. She has also received various awards like CSIR/ ICMR- Junior research Fellowship, CSIR- Senior research fellowship, State level merit scholarship awards. She is currently editing one book on Nanotoxicity for Springer-Nature.

Nandita Dasgupta has vast working experience on Micro/Nanoscience and currently serving in VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. She has been exposed to various research institutes and industries including CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India and Uttar Pradesh Drugs and Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Lucknow, India. Her areas of interest include Micro/Nanomaterials fabrication and their applications in different fields majorly - medicine, food, environment, agriculture, biomedical etc. She has published many books with Springer and has contracted few with Springer, Elsevier, and CRC Press. She has also published many scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals and also serving as editorial board member and referee for reputed international peer-reviewed journals. She has received Elsevier Certificate for Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing from Elsevier, The Netherlands. She has also been nominated for Elsevier advisory panel for Elsevier, The Netherlands. She is the Associated Editor in Environmental Chemistry Letters - a Springer journal of 3.59 Impact Factor. She has received several national and international awards and recognitions from different organizations.

Shivendu Ranjan is currently Director, Centre for Technological Innovations & Industrial Research (CTIIR), at SAIARD, Kolkata (an institute certified by Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Entreprises, Govt of India), He is also working as Guest/Visiting Faculty at National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research-R (NIPER-R), Lucknow, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Govt of India. Earlier, he has worked as Scientist at DST-Centre for Policy Research, Lucknow, supported by Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt of India. He is also serving as a Senior Research Associate (Visiting) at Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa. He has major expertise in Micro/Nanotechnology and currently working in VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. His area of research is multidisciplinary which are as but not limited to: Micro/Nanobiotechnology, Nano-toxicology, Environmental Nanotechnology, Nanomedicine and Nanoemulsions. He has published many scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals. He has recently published 5 edited books with Springer and has contracted 3 books in Elsevier, and 4 in CRC Press - all these books cover vast areas of Applied Micro/Nanotechnology. He has vast editorial experience. Briefly, he is serving as Associate Editor in Environmental Chemistry Letters (Springer Journal with 3.59 Impact Factor); also serving as editorial panel in Biotechnology and Biotechnological Equipment (Taylor and Francis, 1.05 Impact Factor). He is also Executive Editor and expert board panel in several other journals. He has been recently nominated as Elsevier Advisory Panel, Netherlands. He has bagged several awards and honors from different national and international organizations.