Sustainable Materials for Sensing and Remediation of Noxious Pollutants

Dr. Inderjeet Tyagi is working as a Scientist at ZSI, Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change, Kolkata, India. To his expertise, Dr. Tyagi is working in the field of Wastewater treatment, Water Quality, Environmental Metagenomics, and Environmental Management for the past several years. To his credit, Dr. Tyagi had published 120+ SCI papers with Citation~8600 and an h-index of 51 with a cumulative impact factor >550. More to this, he is leading Five (5) national and international projects related to wastewater and water quality assessment in heavily polluted areas in India. Further, he is also on the reviewer panel of more than 40 international journals belonging to well-known publishers like Elsevier, Nature, Springer Nature, Taylor Francis, ACS, etc. Recently, he was awarded the “India Prime Education Quality Award 2021” for his outstanding contribution to the field of wastewater treatment and Environmental Management. He is a lifetime member of the Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) and a Member of the International Society of Wetland Scientists (International Chapter). He is the Editor of One Elsevier edited book entitled “Sustainable Materials for Sensing and Remediation of Noxious Pollutants” Prof. Dr. Joanna Goscianska is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Chemistry of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (AMU). She obtained a Master’s degree in 2005, a doctoral degree in 2009, and habilitation in 2019, in the field of chemistry. During her PhD studies, she participated in three research internships at Laboratoire Catalyse & Spectrochimie in Caen (France) and later at the University of Alicante (Spain). She received a number of prestigious awards, including MAXIMA CUM LAUDE (2005), the scholarship of the city of Poznań for young researchers (2010), scholarship for outstanding young scientists awarded by the Minister of Science and Higher Education (2016-2019), team awards of the Rector of AMU for achievements in scientific (2014-2018), didactic (2014) and organizational work (2014). In 2018, she became a laureate of the habilitation fellowship “L’ORÉAL-UNESCO FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE”. Her principal interest is focused on synthesis, modification, characterization of porous materials (e.g., metal oxides, ordered mesoporous silica and carbons, metal-organic frameworks) and their application in adsorption processes, catalysis, and drug delivery systems. She is co-author of 73 papers in journals from the Journal Citation Reports database, 1 book, 9 book chapters, 22 post-conference proceedings, and 170 presentations at international and national conferences. Prof. Dr. Mohammad Hadi Dehghani is a full professor at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. His scientific research interests include environmental science. He is the author of various research studies published in national and international journals and conference proceedings and head of several research projects at the TUMS. He has authored 20 books, 26 book chapters and more than 270 full papers published in peer-reviewed journals. He is an editorial board member, guest editor, and reviewer in many internal and international journals and a member of several international science committees worldwide. He also has the distinction of being listed in the top 2% of the world’s most influential scientists in the area of environmental sciences. He is a supervisor and advisor for many PhD and MSc theses at the TUMS. He is currently also a member of the Iranian Association of Environmental Health (IAEH) and member of the Institute for Environmental Research (IER) at the TUMS. He is an editor for 14 edited books (English): (1) Soft Computing Techniques in Solid Waste and Wastewater Management, (2) Environmental and Health Management of Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), (3) Green Technologies for the Defluoridation of Water, (4) Pesticide Remediation Technologies From Water and Wastewater, (5) COVID-19 and Sustainable Development Goals, (6) Industrial Wastewater Treatment: Emerging Technologies for Sustainability, (7) Sustainable Materials for Sensing and Remediation of Noxious Pollutants, (8) Wastewater-Based Epidemiology for the Assessment of Human Exposure to Environmental Pollutants, (9) Water Treatment Using Engineered Carbon Nanotubes, (10) Water, the Environment and the Sustainable Development Goals, (11) Sustainable Remediation Technologies for Emerging Pollutants in Aqueous Environment, (12) Health and Environmental Effects of Ambient Air Pollution, (13) Health Effects of Indoor Air Pollution, (14) Diseases Attributed to Air Pollution.Rama Rao Karri is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at Universiti Teknologi Brunei. He holds a PhD from IIT Delhi and a Master’s from IIT Kanpur in Chemical Engineering. With over 20 years of experience in academia, industry, and research, he has experience working in multidisciplinary fields and has expertise in various evolutionary optimization techniques and process modelling. His expertise extends to process modeling and simulation, focusing on optimizing chemical and environmental processes to improve efficiency and sustainability. He serves on editorial boards of several international journals and acts as a peer reviewer for numerous reputed publications. He has held editorial roles including Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor for journals such as Scientific Reports and the International Journal of Energy and Water Resources. He is also a guest editor for special issues on nanocomposites and environmental engineering topics. Additionally, he contributes to authoring and editing books on sustainable technologies, environmental remediation, and process monitoring with leading academic publishers. He also has the distinction of being listed in the Top 2% of the world’s most influential scientists in the area of environmental sciences and chemical engineering since 2021, compiled and published by Stanford University.

• Part 1. Introduction to the general aspects of sensing and remediation materialsPart 2. Synthesis of sensing material for the detection of Macrocyclic and RotaxanesPart 3. Sensor material for detection of noxious metal impuritiesPart 4. Conducting polymer based sensing materials for water treatmentPart 5. Graphene oxide nanocomposite for the remediation of micropollutants (Pharmaceutical Impurities and Metal Ions)Part 6. Low cost adsorbents (Biomaterials, nanomaterials, waste materials) for the remediation of noxious pollutants (inorganic and organic) from wastewaterPart 7. Outlook of Industries and their expectations in terms of cost-economics and societal benefits