Dear Colleagues,

Nanotechnology plays nowadays a major role in environmental science and engineering providing robust, novel, cost-effective nanomaterials (e.g., micro-meso-porous adsorbents and membranes, electrocatalysts and, nanocatalysts,) and solutions for the removal of clean fuels, environmental pollutants, and green chemicals production, and cyclic economy and energy technologies. This section aims to host significant advances in the aforementioned areas including, but not limited to:

Design and synthesis of nanomaterials (adsorbents, catalysts, membranes, etc.) and processes for:

· Radioactive waste abatement: metallic (Titanate and manganese polymorphic forms) nanotubes and nanfibers are good absorbents; removal and decomposable of radioactive ions such as cesium and iodine from water.

· Greenhouse gases reduction and utilization: CO₂ capture and transformation to methane and renewable fuels; CH₄ valorization; N₂O abatement;

· Remove volatile organic compounds (VOCs) – as well as sulfur and nitrogen oxides – from the air at ambient temperatures: Growth and catalyzing activity of porous transitional elemental oxide with metal nanostructures; decompose the offending compounds.

· Emissions control of stationary and mobile sources: De-( HCs, CO, VOCs, NOx, H₂S,  soot), 

· Clean energy generation: H₂ cleaning and generation (CH₄, water-gas-shift reaction , biogas, hydrocarbons rehabilitate and preferential CO oxidation reaction, etc.); novel nanocomposite electrodes and fuel cells synthesize, manufacturing and applications, 

· Photo-electro-chemical waste-water treatment, CO₂ conversion and air pollution control.

· Practical water-cleaning, waterborne infectious diseases reduction: utilizing metal (iron, gold, silver, copper..) nanoparticles, chlorine-free biocides in the form of silver and titanium dioxide, removal of organic solvents in groundwater.

Advanced synthesize process and characterizations for the rational plans, and invention of nanostructured (up to molecular level) products, for tailoring and fine-tuning of their critical physicochemical properties and local chemistry and for promoting active sites performance and stability in respect to the above implementations, as well as all aspects of characterization and in depth understanding structure-activity correlations are also of considerable interest for publishing in “Nanotechnology and Environmental protection” section of CAN journal, which will serve as a platform to encourage and discuss the scientific research in the above highlighted topics and correlated fields.

Looking forward to your contributions.

Dr.Martha Ramesh

Section Editor