Nanotechnology (Defence Applications)

by Naveen Kumar Navani, Shishir Sinha

Overview

Nanotechnology plays a pivotal role in improving the environment and making alternative energy sources more cost effective. The role of nanotechnology includes cleaning up pollutants by bioremediation, generating low-producing green house gas combustion and energy systems, producing eco-friendly nano materials and sustainable energy sources. This volume emphasizes on recent research progresses on nanotechnology based energy systems and pros and cons of various nano materials used as building blocks for efficient energy production units, and their adaptability in the environment. In this volume authors have discussed vividly and eloquently about the use of nano materials like grapheme, grapheme, carbon, silver, aluminum, manganese oxide as carriers and storage materials for hydrogen energy and their role in development of different solar cells and batteries cost effectively. They also discussed about different next generation technologies like micro electrical mechanical systems (MEMS), ground state heat pump(GHST) technology, production of complex hydrides based nano materials by radiation induced methods and aluminum based lithium batteries as a power source for emission free vehicles. The forte of this volume is its widespread research on the toxicological aspect of the nano material and its impact on environment and health. The authors described different kinds of nano materials and their failure because of its adverse effects on environment due to toxicity, corrosion and low sustainability. Thus authors have identified alternate eco friendly materials like silver, gold, palladium, platinum to be used in toxicity determination, ground water and soil bioremediation and also in mitigation of environment pollution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626991446
Publisher:	Arts & Science Academic Publishing
Publication date:	06/30/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	371
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Dr. Naveen Kumar Navani, received his Masters degree (1993) in Animal Biotechnology from National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal in India. He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Protein Engineering from Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), Chandigarh, India. He served as a scientist in DNA Fingerpriting unit of an institute of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in India. He then pursued his post-doctoral research with Professor Yingfu Li at McMaster University, Canada from 2003-2007, in the field of nucleic acid engineering and Nano Biotechnology.In 2007, he joined Indian Institute of Technology, (IIT) Roorkee, India where he is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology. He is actively associated with Centre for Nanotechnology of IIT also. His work has been published in reputed journals like Chembiochem, NucleicAcid Research, Current Opinion in Chemical Biology and Methods in Molecular Biology. He has also written book chapters on development of Aptamer based biosensors for detection of pathogens, proteins and small molecules. His current research interests include biosensor development using chemical biology and nanobiotechnology; especially developing antibacterial packaging for extending shelf life of perishable products, developing whole cell and nanosensors for pathogen detection and removal of toxins, xenobiotics and bacteria using nanotechnology. His research is funded by Department of Biotechnology; Government of India, Indian Council of Agricultural Research through National Agricultural Innovation Project, State Biotechnology Board and Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Govt of India.



Dr. Shishir Sinha is working as Associate Professor in Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. Doctorate from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, Dr. Sinha is having more than thirteen years of teaching and research experience. His area of expertise is polymer surface modification. He has published more than 90 papers in international, national journals and conferences. He has handled several research projects and guided various M.Tech and Ph.D.students in the area of chemical engineering. Dr. Sinha has published two books in the area of Polymers.
Dr. Naveen Kumar Navani, received his Masters degree (1993) in Animal Biotechnology from National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal in India. He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Protein Engineering from Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), Chandigarh, India. He served as a scientist in DNA Fingerpriting unit of an institute of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in India. He then pursued his post-doctoral research with Professor Yingfu Li at McMaster University, Canada from 2003-2007, in the field of nucleic acid engineering and NanoBiotechnology. In 2007, he joined Indian Institute of Technology, (IIT) Roorkee, India where he is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology. He is actively associated with Centre for Nanotechnology of IIT also. His work has been published in reputed journals like Chembiochem, Nucleic Acid Research, Current Opinion in Chemical Biology and Methods in Molecular Biology. He has also written book chapters on development of Aptamer based biosensors for detection of pathogens, proteins and small molecules. His current research interests include biosensor development using chemical biology and nanobiotechnology; especially developing antibacterial packaging for extending shelf life of perishable products, developing whole cell and nanosensors for pathogen detection and removal of toxins, xenobiotics and bacteria using nanotechnology. His research is funded by Department of Biotechnology; Government of India,Indian Council of Agricultural Research through National Agricultural Innovation Project, State Biotechnology Board and Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Govt of India.