Nanotechnology, Food Security and Water Treatment

This book reviews advanced nanotechnology in food, health, water and agriculture. In food, nanobiosensors display an unprecedented efficiency for the detection of allergens, genetically modified organisms and pathogens. In agriculture, nanofertilisers imp

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K M Gothandam Shivendu Ranjan Nandita Dasgupta Chidambaram Ramalingam Eric Lichtfouse Editors

Nanotechnology, Food Security and Water Treatment

Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World Volume 11

Series Editors Eric Lichtfouse, CEREGE, Aix-Marseille University, Aix en Provence, France Jan Schwarzbauer, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany Didier Robert, CNRS, European Laboratory for Catalysis and Surface Sciences, Saint-Avold, France

Other Publications by the Editors Books Environmental Chemistry http://www.springer.com/978-3-540-22860-8 Organic Contaminants in Riverine and Groundwater Systems http://www.springer.com/978-3-540-31169-0 Sustainable Agriculture Volume 1: http://www.springer.com/978-90-481-2665-1 Volume 2: http://www.springer.com/978-94-007-0393-3 Book series Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World http://www.springer.com/series/11480 Sustainable Agriculture Reviews http://www.springer.com/series/8380 Journals Environmental Chemistry Letters http://www.springer.com/10311 Agronomy for Sustainable Development http://www.springer.com/13593

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/11480

K M Gothandam • Shivendu Ranjan Nandita Dasgupta • Chidambaram Ramalingam Eric Lichtfouse Editors

Nanotechnology, Food Security and Water Treatment

Editors K M Gothandam School of Bio Sciences and Technology VIT University Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India Nandita Dasgupta Computational Modelling and Nanoscale Processing Unit Indian Institute of Food Processing Technology Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India

Shivendu Ranjan Computational Modelling and Nanoscale Processing Unit Indian Institute of Food Processing Technology Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India Chidambaram Ramalingam School of Bio Sciences and Technology VIT University Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Eric Lichtfouse CEREGE, Aix-Marseille University Aix en Provence, France

ISSN 2213-7114 ISSN 2213-7122 (electronic) Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World ISBN 978-3-319-70165-3 ISBN 978-3-319-70166-0 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70166-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017960815 © Springer International Publishing AG 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date