Abstract
Pesticides are industrial organic chemicals that are being continuously employed in agriculture to boost their productions and protect ornamental plants. Their excessive use and inherited toxicity are affecting the environment (adulteration of air, water, food, and soil) and health of exposed human beings. Organochlorines (OCs), the old class of pesticides, are banned credited to their longer lives, bioaccumulation, and carcinogenic nature. To replace them, organophosphorus (OPs), carbamates, and new pesticides with different chemical composition are full in the market. Bioenrichment of large-volume pesticides along with toxicity to nontargets demand their removal from the environment via advanced technology-based nanomaterials. Due to unique properties like precise morphology, texture, abundance, crystallinity, surface area of metal oxides, and composites, their potential use in degradation of pesticides via adsorption and photocatalytic mechanism has been extensively reported. Titanium oxides, zinc oxide, copper oxides, noble metals (Ag, Au, Pt), and iron-based nanomaterials are highly used for treatment of various pollutants. Modified forms have better properties because of synergism of surface properties and insertion of extra energy levels that help in prevention of charge recombination. Different types of metal oxides employed for the degradation of various pesticides have been comprehensively presented in this chapter. In addition, present scenario of pesticides including their consumption, classification, environmental concern, fate in environment, and necessity for elimination have also been presented. Moreover, comprehensive information on recently attracting green fabricated nanomaterials has also been offered.
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One of the authors Dr. Manviri Rani is grateful for the funding from DST-SERB, New Delhi (Sanction order no. SRG/2019/000114), and TEQIP-III MNIT Jaipur, India. Dr. Uma Shanker wishes to thank TEQIP-III, NIT Jalandhar, for partial funding.
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Rani, M., Choudhary, S., Yadav, J., Keshu, Shanker, U. (2022). Metal Oxide-Based Nanocomposites for Elimination of Hazardous Pesticides. In: Shanker, U., Hussain, C.M., Rani, M. (eds) Handbook of Green and Sustainable Nanotechnology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69023-6_40-1
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