Emerging and Innovative Smart Materials for Water Treatment Applications

By Mihir Kumar Purkait, Piyal Mondal, Satish Kumar

This book explains the fundamental and advance topics related to the field of different nano and macro structure-based materials towards combating the problem of water treatment, focusing on smart and advanced materials, their necessity and advantages over other conventional materials. The sources and effects of hazardous contaminants, the shortcomings of conventional treatment, have been discussed in detail, along with the beneficial properties of various smart materials, including stimuli-responsive, carbon-based, bio, and nano-structured materials.

Features:

Features current state-of-the-art investigation and improvements in smart materials for water treatment

Analyse the effects of smart materials on the environment and their long-term viability

Includes a performance improvement section in each chapter, including comparison between smart and conventional materials

Discusses the drawbacks and shortcomings of the materials being used in traditional water treatment processes

Explores how to incorporate smart materials into current treatment methods

This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in chemical and water engineering, and materials science.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032840609
• ISBN13: 9781032840604
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 280 Pages