Nanomaterials for Wastewater Remediation Ravindra Kumar Gautam and Mahesh Chandra Chattopadhyaya
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diffusion, (4) solutions to Fick’s second law, and (5) diffusion with finite boundaries. This section discusses the thermodynamics of phase transitions, reconstructive transformations, and nucleation and growth applied to homogeneous and heterogeneous cases, as well as diffusion phenomenon. The last section considers different types of fluxes, forces, and interdiffusion, with a treatment on nonideal thermodynamic behavior of solid and liquid solutions. The utility of the book is enhanced by a subject index and two appendices containing symbols. The book provides every derivation and brings out the kinetic processes in materials science and engineering in an understandable way. As a teacher who has taught and is teaching courses in materials science and engineering and who has performed research in the area of electrochemical kinetics, I find this
Nanomaterials for Wastewater Remediation Ravindra Kumar Gautam and Mahesh Chandra Chattopadhyaya Butterworth-Heinemann, 2016 366 pages, $170.00 (e-book $170.00) ISBN 9780128046098
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his book is a comprehensive overview of the advances in water remediation processes via nanotechnology. It covers most of the nanomaterials that are presently being used, as well as nanomaterials that are still under investigation, such as magnetic nanoparticles, bimetallic nanoparticles, and carbon- and alumina-based structures. References are ample, as the book is written for all types of readers, not only those in the scientific community. For novices in water remediation, this book provides basic information on the field and is a good textbook for students; for experts, the book provides updates on state-of-the-art methods. Chapter 1 introduces various nanomaterials that are promising agents for water remediation. It also emphasizes the lack
of cost-effectiveness and risk assessment for the current nanomaterials and their by-products. Chapter 2 focuses on industrial pollutants and contemporary water remediation solutions, such as reverse osmosis, advanced oxidation techniques (further discussed in chapter 3), nanosorbtion (with an emphasis on graphene-based nanosorbents, further detailed in chapters 4–6), and magnetic nanomaterials. Chapter 3 addresses catalytic nanomaterials capable of generating highly reactive OH– radicals via photochemical, sonochemical, electrochemical, and photo-Fenton oxidation processes. Chapters 4–6 are dedicated to the growing field of graphene-based nanosorbents that are efficient in capturing heavy metals, such as Hg and Pb, along with
book extraordinary in all respects in giving in-depth mathematical derivations. However, the emphasis given on electrochemical kinetics applied to transient techniques using Fick’s laws is minimal, except for dealing with ion conductance. This is an excellent book, and although it should not be used as the primary text for a kinetics course (no mention of the fundamentals and applications of kinetics, such as pulse radiolysis; fluorescence; photolysis; temperature-jump, pressure jump, or stopped flow techniques; electron spin
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