Water Treatment Using Engineered Carbon Nanotubes

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.Dr Nabisab Mujawar Mubarak is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Brunei, Brunei Darussalam. He is a scientific reviewer in numerous Chemical Engineering and Nano Technology journals. In research, Dr. Mubarak has published more than 400 journal papers and 40 conference proceedings, authored 80 book chapters, and has a 77 H-index. His areas of interest are carbon nanomaterial synthesis, magnetic biochar production using microwaves, and wastewater treatment using advanced materials. He receives the Curtin Malaysia Most Productive Research award, Outstanding Faculty of Chemical Engineering award, Best Scientific Research Award London, and Exceptional Scientist in publication and citation by i- Proclaim, Malaysia. Since 2020, he has also been listed in the top two percent of the world's most influential scientists in chemicals and energy. The List of the Top 2% of Scientists in the World compiled and published by Stanford University is based on their international scientific publications, the number of scientific citations for research, and participation in the review and editing of scientific research. Dr. Mubarak is a Fellow Member of the Institution of Engineers Australia, a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) of The Institution of Engineers Australia, and a Chartered Chemical Engineer of the Institute of Chemical Engineering (IChemE), UK. He has published 11 books and is co-editor for ongoing Elsevier-edited books: 1) Nanomaterials for Carbon Capture and Conversion Technique, 2) Advanced Nanomaterials and nanocomposites for Bioelectrochemical Systems, 3) Water Treatment Using Engineered Carbon Nanotubes,4) Hybrid Nanomaterials for Sustainable Applications: Case Studies and Applications, 5), Sustainable Nanotechnology for Environmental Remediation, 6) Nanotechnology for Biomedical Applications,7) Nanotechnology for Electronic Applications, 8) Application of Bio-Additives for the Food Industry, 9) Contemporary Nanomaterials in Material Engineering Applications, 10)Fundamentals of Biomaterials: A Supplementary Textbook, 11) Emerging Water Pollutants: Concerns and Remediation Technologies.

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