Preface -- 1 New-Age Nano Adsorbents for Water Purification 1 Subhadeep Biswas, Abhishek Johri, and Anjali Pal -- 2 Nanomaterials: Prospects for Water Purification and Relevance of Biosensing in Drinking Water 27 Seemesh Bhaskar and Sai Sathish Ramamurthy -- 3 Nanomaterials for Air and Water Purification 55 Lívia Elisabeth Vasconcellos de Siqueira Brandão Vaz -- 4 Green Nanotechnology for Water Purification 77 Mahmoud A. Abdulhamid, Nawader Alqadhi, Claudia Osornio, and Gyorgy Szekely -- 5 Electrospun Nanofiber Membranes for Effective Air Filtration 115 Narendra Reddy and Kavya S. Bhushan -- 6 Nanocatalysts and Redox Nanoparticles for Water Purification 145 Kannappan Lakshmi, Arunasalam Sridhar, and Rajmohan Rangasamy -- 7 Nanomaterials and Water Purification: Opportunities for Improving and Protecting Water 165 Natalia Scheverin, Aura B. Patiño, Mariel Díaz, and Maria Fernanda Horst -- 8 The Use of Sol-Gel Technology to Produce Nanomaterials for AirandWaterPurification 197 Andrei Rex and João Henrique Zimnoch dos Santos -- 9 Graphitic Carbon Nitride (g-C3N4)-based Sustainable Photocatalysts for Purification of Antibiotic Containing Wastewater 217 Dhruti S. Pattanayak, Chandrakant Thakur, Dhananjay Singh, and Dharm Pal -- 10 Development of Noble Metal Supported Nanoparticles for Water Treatment 237 Hamyal Izhar, Fatima Izhar, Shoomaila Latif, Muhammad Imran, and Nazim Hussain -- 11 Immobilized Enzyme Systems for Wastewater Treatment 257 Ambreen Aisha, Muhammad J. Iqbal, Razia Noreen, Naila Mukhtar, Asim Hussain, and Asim Rehman -- 12 Bioactive Nanoparticles for Water Purification 275 Madhushree Hegde, Akshatha Chandrashekar, Jineesh A. Gopi, Niranjana Prabhu, Deepu A. Gopakumar, Jinu Jacob George, Midhun Dominic C.D., and Jyotishkumar Parameswaranpillai -- 13 Cellulose Nanofibers-Based Porous Materials, a Green Platform to Construct Advanced Sorbents for Oil/Spill Cleanup 305 Aiswarya Poulose, Ajith Mathew, Deepu A. Gopakumar, Daniel Pasquini, A. Mathiazhagan, and Jinu Jacob George -- 14 Novel Carbon-Based Nanomaterials (CNMs) for Air Purification 329 Neelakandan M. Santhosh -- 15 Metal/Metal Oxide Nanoparticles Modified Polymeric Composite Membranes for Water Treatment 347 Akshatha Chandrashekar, Madhushree Hegde, Jineesh A. Gopi, Niranjana Prabhu, Deepu A. Gopakumar, Jinu Jacob George, Midhun Dominic C.D., and Jyotishkumar Parameswaranpillai -- 16 Nanocellulose-Based Ultralight Porous Material for Various Environmental Applications 373 Ajith Mathew, Aiswarya Poulose, Deepu A. Gopakumar, Daniel Pasquini, Yves Grohens, and Jinu Jacob George -- References -- Index.

Electrospun Nanofibers Membranes for Effective Air Filtration Nanocomposite Air Filter Membranes Photocatalytic Materials and Technologies for Air Purification Carbon Based Nanomaterials (CNMs) for Air Purification Nanofibrous Composite Air Filters Graphene Oxide Membrane for Air Purification Nanoprotein-Functionalized Hierarchical Composite Air Filter Flexible Multifunctional Porous Nanofibrous Membranes for High-Efficiency Air Filtration Metal-Organic Frameworks for Air Purification Nanomaterials and Water Purification: Opportunities for Improving and Protecting Water Supplies New Generation Nanobased Adsorbents for Water Purification Mechanisms of Removing Pollutants from Wastewater by Nanomaterials Noble Metal Nanoparticles for Water Purification Electro-assisted Methods for Water Purification Bio-active Nanoparticles for Water Purification Nanocatalyts and Redox Nanoparticles for Water Purification Polymeric Membranes Incorporated with Metal/Metal Oxide Nanoparticles for Water Purification Electrospun Nanofibers Membranes for Effective Water Purification Green Nanotechnology for Water Purification Engineered Graphite Oxide Materials for Water Purification Starch-Stabilized Bimetallic Nanoparticles for Water Purification