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Green Synthesis: Nanoparticles and Nanofibres Based on Tree Gums for Environmental Applications Cover

Green Synthesis: Nanoparticles and Nanofibres Based on Tree Gums for Environmental Applications

Open Access
|Dec 2016

Abstract

The recent advances and potential applications of nanoparticles and nanofibres for energy, water, food, biotechnology, the environment, and medicine have immensely conversed. The present review describes a ‘green’ method for the synthesis and stabilization of nanoparticles and ‘green electrospinning’ both using tree gums (arabic, tragacanth, karaya and kondagogu). Furthermore, this review focuses on the impending applications of both gum stabilized nanoparticles and functionalized membranes in remediation of toxic metals, radioactive effluents, and the adsorptive removal of nanoparticulates from aqueous environments as well as from industrial effluents. Besides, the antibacterial properties of gum derivatives, gum stabilized nanoparticles, and functionalized electrospun nanofibrous membranes will also be highlighted. The functionalities of nanofibrous membranes that can be enhanced by various plasma treatments (oxygen and methane, respectively) will also be emphasized.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eces-2016-0038 | Journal eISSN: 2084-4549 | Journal ISSN: 1898-6196
Language: English
Page range: 533 - 557
Published on: Dec 30, 2016
Published by: Society of Ecological Chemistry and Engineering
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2016 Vinod Vellora Thekkae Padil, Stanisław Wacławek, Miroslav Černík, published by Society of Ecological Chemistry and Engineering
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