Green and Sustainable Advanced Materials Applications [Hardcover]

Sustainable development is a very prevalent concept of modern society. This concept has appeared as a critical force in combining a special focus on development and growth by maintaining a balance of using human resources and the ecosystem in which we are living. The development of new and advanced materials is one of the powerful examples in establishing this concept. Green and sustainable advanced materials are the newly synthesized material or existing modified material having superior and special properties. These fulfil today’s growing demand for equipment, machines and devices with better quality for an extensive range of applications in various sectors such as paper, biomedical, textile, and much more.

Volume 2, provides chapters on the valorization of green and sustainable advanced materials from a biomedical perspective as well as the applications in textile technology, optoelectronics, energy materials systems, and the food and agriculture industry.

Preface xvii

1 Green Sustainability, Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials – A Critical Overview and a Vision for the Future 1
Sukanchan Palit and Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain

1.1 Introduction 2

1.2 The Aim and Objective of This Study 2

1.3 The Need and the Rationale of This Study 3

1.4 Environmental and Green Sustainability 3

1.5 The Scientific Doctrine of Green Sustainability and Green Engineering 4

1.6 Scientific Vision and Scientific Doctrine of Nanotechnology 5

1.7 What Do You Mean by Advanced Materials? 5

1.8 The World of Advanced Materials Today 6

1.9 Recent Scientific Endeavour in the Field of Green Sustainability 6

1.10 The Challenges and Vision of Research Pursuit in Nanotechl&