Emerging Carbon-Based Nanocomposites for Environmental Applications

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