Integrating Green Chemistry and Sustainable Engineering

Shahid-ul-Islam received his PhD in Chemistry from Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), India, in 2016. He is currently a researcher at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. His research focus is on green chemistry, novel sustainable textile chemical processing, natural product chemistry, thermodynamics and kinetics of colorants, in-situ synthesis of nanoparticles and composites, and development of protective textiles. He is a member of many groups including American Chemical Society (USA) and a life member of Asian Polymer Association. He has published numerous peer-reviewed research articles in journals of high repute as well as edited 4 books with Wiley-Scrivener.

• Preface xix 1 Third Generation Biofuels: A Promising Alternate Energy Source 1Mushtaq Ahmad Rather and Parveena Bano2 Recent Progress in Photocatalytic Water Splitting by Nanostructured TiO2 -Carbon Photocatalysts – Influence of Interfaces, Morphological Structures and Experimental Parameters 23V. Preethi, M. Mamatha Kumari, N. Ramesh Reddy, U. Bhargav, K. K. Cheralathan, C. H. Shilpa Chakra and M. V. Shankar3 Heterogeneous Catalytic Conversion of Greenhouse Gas CO2 to Fuels 57Kaisar Ahmad, Firdaus Parveen, Anushree and Sreedevi Upadhyayula4 Energy Harvesting: Role of Plasmonic Nanocomopsites for Energy Efficient Devices 81Jaspal Singh, Subhavna Juneja and Anujit Ghosal5 Catalytic Conversion of Biomass Derived Cellulose to 5-Hydromethyl Furfural 113Firdaus Parveen, Kaiser Ahmad and Sreedevi Upadhyayula6 Raman “Green” Spectroscopy for Ultrasensitive Analyte Detection 165Subhavna Juneja, Anujit Ghosal and Jaydeep Bhattacharya7 Microwave Synthesized Conducting Polymer-Based Green Nanocomposites as Smart Promising Materials 191Neha Kanwar Rawat and P.K Panda8 Biobased Biodegradable Polymers for Ecological Applications: A Move Towards Manufacturing Sustainable Biodegradable Plastic Products 215Sudhakar Muniyasamy, Kulanthaisamy Mohanrasu, Abongile Gada, Teboho Clement Mokhena,Asanda Mtibe, Thulasinathan Boobalan, Vimla Paul and Alagarsamy Arun9 Cashew Nut Shell Liquid (Phenolic Lipid) Based Coatings: Polymers to Nanocomposites 255Fahmina Zafar, Anujit Ghosal, Eram Sharmin and Nahid Nishat10 Ionic Liquids as Potential Green Solvents Their Interactions with Surfactants and Antidepressant Drugs 291Nisar Ahmad Malik and Ummer Farooq11 Role of Green and Integrated Chemistry in Sustainable Metallurgy 325Sadia Ilyas, Muhammad Farhan and Haq Nawaz Bhatti12 Biological Nitrogen Fixation and Biofertilizers as Ideal Potential Solutions for Sustainable Agriculture 343Shymaa Ryhan Bashandy, Mohamed Hemida Abd-Alla and Magdy Mohamed K Khalil Bagy13 Natural Products in Adsorption Technology 397Ahmet Gürses14 Role of Microbes in the Bioremediation of Toxic Dyes 443Tanvir Arfin, Kamini Sonawane, Piyush Saidankar and Shraddha Sharma15 Valorization of Wastes for the Remediation of Toxicants from Industrial Wastewater 473Shumaila Kiran, Tahsin Gulzar, Sarosh Iqbal, Noman Habib, Atya Hassan and Saba Naz16 Wound Healing Potential of Natural Polymer: Chitosan “A Wonder Molecule” 527Tara Chand Yadav, Amit Kumar Srivastava, Navdeep Raghuwanshi, Naresh Kumar, Ramasare Prasad and Vikas Pruthi17 Nanobiotechnology: Applications of Nanomaterials in Biological Research 581Muhammad Irfan Majeed, Haq Nawaz Bhatti, Haq Nawaz and Muhammad Kashif18 Biotechnology: Past-to-Future 617Tanvir Arfin and Kamini Sonawane19 Biogenic Nanoparticles as Theranostic Agents: Prospects and Challenges 647Navdeep Raghuwanshi, Amit Kumar Srivastava, Tara Chand Yadav, Sonam Gupta and Vikas PruthiReferences 675Index 685