Emerging Carbon-Based Nanocomposites for Environmental Applications

<p>The 12 chapters comprehensively cover the development and advances on emerging carbon-based nanocomposites for wastewater applications and discuss the following topics:</p> <ul> <li>The emerging carbon-based nanocomposites for remediation of heavy metals and organic pollutants from wastewater;</li> <li>Functional green carbon nanocomposites for heavy-metal treatment in water;  </li> <li>Green nanocomposites and their applications in environmentally-friendly carbon nanomaterials;  </li> <li>Carbon-based nanocomposites as heterogeneous catalysts for organic reactions in environment-friendly solvents;</li> <li>Carbonaceous nanomaterials for arsenic and chromium removal from waste water;</li> <li>Biochar-based adsorbents for the removal of organic pollutants from aqueous systems;</li> <li>Describes carbon nanomaterials based green nanocomposites;</li> <li>The removal of trihalomethanes from water using nanofiltration membranes and</li> <li>The transformation of wide bandgap semiconductors for visible-light photocatalytic degradation of organic dyes;</li> <li>Nanocomposite materials as electrode materials in microbial fuel cells for the removal of water pollutants;</li> <li>Plasmonic smart nanosensors for the determination of environmental pollutants.</li> </ul>