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Engineered Nanomaterials and Phytonanotechnology: Challenges for Plant Sustainability

1st Edition - November 20, 2019

Editors: Sandeep Kumar Verma, Ashok Kumar Das

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Engineered Nanomaterials and Phytonanotechnology: Challenges for Plant Sustainability, Volume 87 in the Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry series, highlights new advances in the… Read more

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Engineered Nanomaterials and Phytonanotechnology: Challenges for Plant Sustainability, Volume 87 in the Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on the Environmental application of nanomaterials: A promise to sustainable future, Plant-nanoparticle interactions: Mechanisms, effects, and approaches, A general overview on application of nanoparticles in agriculture and plant science, Engineered nanomaterials uptake, bioaccumulation and toxicity mechanisms in plants, Engineered nanomaterials in plants: Sensors, carriers, and bio-imaging, Antioxidant role of nanoparticles for enhancing ecological performance of plant system, Toxicity assessment of metal oxide nanoparticles on terrestrial plants, and much more.

1. Environmental application of nanomaterials: A promise to sustainable future
Muhammad Irfan Sohail, Aisha A Waris, Muhammad Ashar Ayub, Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Zia ur Rehman, Muhammad Sabir, and Tehmina Faiz

2. Plant-nanoparticle interactions: Mechanisms, effects, and approaches
Manash Pratim Barkataki and Tinka Singh

3. A general overview on application of nanoparticles in agriculture and plant science
Azim Ghasemnezhad, Mansour Ghorbanpour, Omid Sohrabi, and Mahboubeh Ashnavar

4. Engineered nanomaterials uptake, bioaccumulation and toxicity mechanisms in plants
Vinay Kumar, Sivarama Krishna Lakkaboyana, Neha Sharma, Ali Samy Abdelaal, Subhrangsu Sunder Maitra, and Deepak Pant

5. Engineered nanomaterials in plants: Sensors, carriers, and bio-imaging
Biju Bharali, Hasnahana Chetia, Jon Jyoti Kalita, Ponnala Vimal Mosahari, Anil Kumar Chhillar, and Utpal Bora

6. Antioxidant role of nanoparticles for enhancing ecological performance of plant system
Sanchita Kukde, Bijaya Ketan Sarangi, and Hemant Purohit

7. Toxicity assessment of metal oxide nanoparticles on terrestrial plants
Vishnu D. Rajput, Tatiana Minkina, Svetlana Sushkova, Vasiliy Chokheli, and Mikhail Soldatov

8. Cerium oxide nanoparticles: Advances in synthesis, prospects and application in agro-ecosystem
Muhammad Ashar Ayub, Muhammad Irfan Sohail, Muhammad Umair, Muhammad Zia ur Rehman, Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Sabir, Muhammad Rizwan, Shafaqat Ali, and Zahoor Ahmad

9. ZnO nanoparticle with promising antimicrobial and antiproliferation synergistic properties
Vivek Sheel Jaswal, Ashun Chaudhary, Pankaj Thakur, Diksha Sharma, Avnish Kumar Arora, Radhika Khanna, and Hardeep Singh Tuli

10. Biologically synthesized nanomaterials and their antimicrobial potentials
Tushar Khare, Uttara Oak, Varsha Shriram, Sandeep Kumar Verma, and Vinay Kumar

11. Emerging plant-based anti-cancer green nanomaterials in present scenario
Muthupandian Saravanan, Hamed Barabadi, Balajee Ramachandran, Gopinath Venkatraman, and Karuppiah Ponmurugan

Sandeep Kumar Verma

Dr. Verma has been working as an Associate Professor & Head in the Institute of Biological Science, SAGE University, Indore, India. He has more than 15 years’ research and teaching experience in the field of biotechnology in India, Italy, South Korea, Turkey and he has published more than 50 papers in SCI journals to date. He is a recognized expert in the use of biotechnology, molecular biology, and nanotechnology techniques, giving many invited talks and presented papers at international conferences and symposia around the world. He has undergone an advanced training course on “A practical course in mammalian cell biology (MAM-TUBITAK, Turkey)”, “RNA structure and function” (ICGEB, Italy), and “Quorum sensing in plant-associated bacteria” (ICGEB, Italy). Furthermore, he has received two best oral paper presentation awards in national conferences and one young scientist award in international conference. Besides, he has also received a memento for scientific achievement from the Rector, BAIBU, Bolu, Turkey. He is a reviewer of many international peer reviewed journals.

Affiliations and expertise

Associate Professor and Head of Department, Institute of Biological Science, SAGE University, Bypass Road, Kailod Kartal, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, 452020, India.

Ashok Kumar Das

Over the last 35 years, Dr. Ashok Kumar Das has earned wide ranging research experience in diverse fields including emulsions, dispersions, electrolytes, polymers, gas hydrates, targeted drug delivery using dendrimers, water harvesting technology, suspension rheology and development of nanomaterials. His current researches focus on plant-nanoparticle interactions and developing computational models for harvesting solar energy. He is also actively pursuing in the preparation of model drug-dendrimer nanoconjugates to be used as nanomedicines in the fight against various diseases. Dr. Das has acquired extensive research and teaching experience in India, Canada, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea and Ethiopia. For several of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) journals, Dr. Das regularly serves as an adjudicative reviewer.

Affiliations and expertise

Associate Professor, College of Applied Sciences, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia