Nanotechnology for food, agriculture, and environment / Devarajan Thangadurai, Jeyabalan Sangeetha, Ram Prasad, editors.
2020
T174.7
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Title
Nanotechnology for food, agriculture, and environment / Devarajan Thangadurai, Jeyabalan Sangeetha, Ram Prasad, editors.
ISBN
9783030319380
3030319385
9783030319373
3030319377
3030319385
9783030319373
3030319377
Publication Details
Cham : Springer, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (414 pages).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-31
Call Number
T174.7
Dewey Decimal Classification
620/.5
Summary
Nanotechnology progresses its concerts and suitability by improving its effectiveness, security and also reducing the impact and risk. Various chapters in this book are written by eminent scientists and prominent researchers in the field of nanotechnology across the world. This book is focused to put emerging techniques forward using nanoparticles for safe and nutritional food production, protecting crops from pests, increasing nutritional value and providing solutions for various environmental issues. The outcome of this book creates a path for wide usage of nanoparticles in food, agriculture and the environment fields. This book has clear and simple illustrations, tables and case studies to understand the content even by non-experts. This book especially deals with the nanotechnology for controlling plant pathogens, food packaging and preservation, agricultural productivity, waste water treatment and bioenergy production. Hence, this book can be adopted and used by many researchers and academicians in the fields of food, agriculture, environment and nanotechnology for catering the needs of sustainable future. The salient features of this book are • Describes nanotechnology as an interdisciplinary and emerging field in life sciences • Useful for researchers in the cutting edge life science related fields of nanoscience, nanobiology and nanotechnology • Deal with various problems in food, agriculture and environmental sector for sustainable solutions through the application of nanotechnology • Supported with illustrations in color, tables and case studies (wherever applicable), and • Contributed and well written by nanotechnology experts from across various disciplines.
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Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences.
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