Advances in Smart Nanomaterials and their Applications (Micro and Nano Technologies)

Advances in Smart Nanomaterials and their Applications brings together the latest advances and novel methods in the preparation of smart nanomaterials for cutting-edge applications. The book covers fundamental concepts of nanomaterials, including fabrication methods, processing, application areas, specific applications of smart nanomaterials across a range of areas, such as biomedicine, pharmaceuticals, food science and packaging, sensing, cosmetics and dermatology, gas, oil, energy, wastewater and environment, textiles, agriculture, and forestry sectors. In each case, possible challenges, recent trends, and potential future developments are addressed in detail. The book also discusses various considerations for the utilization of smart nanomaterials, including environmental safety and legal requirements. The book is suitable for graduate students as a textbook and simultaneously be useful for both novices and experienced scientists or researchers, medical biologists, nanobiotechnologists, nanoengineers, agricultural scientists, and general biologists as a reference book as well as inspires some industrialists and policy makers involved in the investigation of smart nanomaterials.

• Introduces fundamentals of smart nanomaterials, including theory, fabrication methods, processing and properties
• Opens the door to a broad range of multifaceted applications across agriculture, food science, biomedicine, energy and other areas
• Considers environmental safety, risk assessment, legal requirements and sustainability issues

Azamal Husen is a scholar with over two decades of experience in botanical sciences, nanobiotechnology, plant physiology, environmental botany, medicinal plants, and clonal propagation. He previously served as a Full Professor and Head of the Department of Biology at the University of Gondar, Ethiopia, and is currently a foreign delegate at Wolaita Sodo University, Ethiopia, as well as an Adjunct Professor at Graphic Era University, India. He has also held senior academic roles at Sankalchand Patel University, the Forest Research Institute, and Doon College of Agriculture and Forest in Dehradun, India. Prof. Husen’s research has been supported by major organizations including the World Bank, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation. He has contributed extensively to curriculum development, faculty training, and international conferences. A prolific author and editor, he has been recognized among Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Scientists since 2020 and honored by the University of Gondar for his outstanding service.

Khwaja Salahuddin Siddiqi graduated as a Master of Science in 1969, a Master of Philosophy in 1971, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1973 from the Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. His specialization is inorganic chemistry. He is a former Chairman and Emeritus Professor of the department of chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. He was appointed as a Lecturer in 1974, Reader in 1983, and Professor in 1993. His research interests are coordination chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, organoborate chemistry, and nanochemistry. Siddiqi has published 190 research papers in different areas of chemistry.