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Functionalized nanomaterials: a new avenue for mitigating environmental problems

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Recently, the environmental pollutions (air, water and soil) caused by the release of large amount of toxins, through extensive industrialization, have received a great attention by the environmental scientists. Thus, there is a serious need for efficient environmental remediation approaches. Recently, nanomaterials have obtained immense interest due to their enormous prospective in the environmental remediation. Researchers have developed biocompatible and safer tools for the development of nanomaterials. This review article is demonstrating that how different biocompatible nanomaterials are synthesized and used for the ecological remediation applications. Different schemes are explained for the synthesis of nanomaterials with high biocompatibility and their application in the field of environmental remediation. The use of various functional nanomaterials for the treatment of environmental pollutions (air, water and soil) is discussed in detail.

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Acknowledgments

Priyanka Sharma is thankful to DST INSPIRE for SRF (IF 140267). Savita Chaudhary is thankful to DST Inspire Faculty award [IFACH-17] and DST Purse grants II for financial assistance and Rajeev Kumar is thankful to DST, SERB/F/8171/2015-16 and UGC (F. No. 194-2/2016 IC) for the financial support. Ahmad Umar acknowledges the Ministry of Higher Education, Saudi Arabia for granting Promising Centre for Sensors and Electronics Devices (PCSED) to Najran University, Saudi Arabia. The authors wish to thank all who assisted in conducting this work.

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  2. Department of Environment Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 160014, India

    P. Sharma & R. Kumar

  3. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Arts and Promising Centre for Sensors and Electronic Devices (PCSED), Najran University, Najran, 11001, Saudi Arabia

    A. Umar

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Chaudhary, S., Sharma, P., Chauhan, P. et al. Functionalized nanomaterials: a new avenue for mitigating environmental problems. Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. 16, 5331–5358 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-019-02253-2

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