edited by Glen E Fryxell (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA) & Guozhong Cao (University of Washington, USA)

This book is concerned with functional nanomaterials, materials containing specific, predictable nanostructures whose chemical composition, or interfacial structure enables them to perform a specific job: to destroy, sequester, or detect some material that constitutes an environmental threat. Nanomaterials have a number of features that make them ideally suited for this job: they have a high surface area, high reactivity, easy dispersability, and rapid diffusion, to name a few. The purpose of this book is to showcase how these features can be tailored to address some of the environmental remediation and sensing/detection problems faced by mankind today. A number of leading researchers have contributed to this volume, painting a picture of diverse synthetic strategies, structures, materials, and methods. The intent of this book is to showcase the current state of environmental nanomaterials in such a way as to be useful both as a research resource and as a graduate level textbook. We have organized this book into sections on nanoparticle-based remediation strategies, nanostructured inorganic materials (e.g. layered materials like the apatites), nanostructured organic/inorganic hybrid materials, and the use of nanomaterials to enhance the performance of sensors.

• Nanoparticle-Based Approaches:
  • Nanoparticle Metal Oxides for Chlorocarbon and Organophosphonate Remediation (Koper & Klabunde)
  • Nanoscale Zero-Valent Iron for Site Remediation (W-X Zhang et al.)
  • Synthesis, Characterization and Properties of Zero Valent Iron Nanoparticles (D Baer et al.)
• Nanostructured Inorganic Materials:
  • Formation of Nanosize Apatite Crystals in Sediment for Containment and Stabilization of Contaminants (B Moore et al.)
  • Radioiodine and Tc-99 Getter Materials (S Mattigod)
• Nanoporous Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials :
  • Nature's Nanoparticles: Group 4 Phosphonates (A Clearfield)
  • Synthesis of Nanostructured Hybrid Sorbent Materials using Organosilane Self-Assembly on Mesoporous Ceramic Oxides (G Fryxell)
  • Chemically-Modified Mesoporous Silicas and Organosilicas for Adsorption and Detection of Heavy Metal Ions (Oksana & M Jaroniec)
  • Hierarchically Imprinted Adsorbents (S Dai et al.)
  • Functionalization of Periodic Mesoporous Silica and Its Application to the Adsorption of Toxic Anions (H Yoshitake)
  • Deployment of Thiol SAMMS on Actual Waste Streams (S Mattigod)
  • Amine Functionalized Nanoporous Materials for Carbon Dioxide Capture (F Zheng et al.)
• Nanomaterials that Enhance Sensing/Detection of Environmental Contaminants:
  • Nanostructured ZnO Gas Sensors (Cao et al.)
  • Synthesis and Properties of Mesoporous-Based Materials for Environmental Applications (G-L Shi et al.)
  • Electrochemical Sensors Based on Nanomaterials for Environmental Monitoring (Yantasee & Lin)
  • Nanomaterial-Based Environmental Sensors (Dosev et al.)
• and other papers