Shadpour Mallakpour - Handbook of Consumer Nanoproducts

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Recently, nanotechnology-based consumer products have generated a fast-growing buyer market. The majority of nanoproducts are usually used in healthcare and fitness, home and garden, appliances, coatings, electronics, foods and beverages, sporting goods, clothing, bikes, touch screens, and automobiles. Additionally, apart from their antimicrobial and antibacterial properties, nanoparticles have been heavily used in a wide range of medical supplies and household products, such as food packing and storage utensils, cleaning agents, textiles, water filters, humidifiers, and sprays. The production, transportation, daily use, and disposal of nanoproducts have already influenced the environment and human health, although these effects are still not well understood quantitatively. In the natural environment, nanoparticles undergo further transformations: being released as ions, aggregated and agglomerated, surface modified, or embedded into natural matrices. This handbook offers a comprehensive understanding about nanoproducts manufacturing, utilization, and impact on the environment. In general, this handbook summarizes recent progresses and developments in nanotechnology-based consumer products at both experimental and theoretical models scales.

To capture the comprehensive impression of consumer nanoproducts and to offer reader a logical and eloquent design of the topic and concentrated up-to-date reference, the handbook is divided into several parts, where each part comprises several chapters. It starts with an introduction where modern research perspective of consumer nanoproducts is explored. Part 2 discusses design and engineering technology for consumer nanoproducts. Part 3 defines various consumer nanoproducts based on polymer films and bio-hybrid polymer nanofiber. Part 4 talks about consumer nanoproducts based on polymer nanocomposites matrices. Part 5 details consumer nanoproducts based on composites based on shape-memory alloys. Part 6 is dedicated to consumer nanoproducts based on bio-nanoceramics and bio-nanocomposites, and Part 7 debates consumer nanoproducts based on biocompatible nanopolymers. Part 8 describes consumer nanoproducts based on graphene and graphene nanocomposite. Then Part 9 to 14 are devoted to consumer nanoproducts for biomedical, food, textile and packaging, cosmetics & environment, advanced consumer nanoproducts (waterborne paints, adhesives, coatings, and dispersible lattices) applications. In Part 15, safety risk, ELSI & economics of consumer nanoproducts are detailed. Part 16, clarified role of consumer nanoproducts for green and sustainable future. Then Last part 17 of conclusion having discussion on consumer nanoproducts in antimicrobial application.

The aim of this handbook is to deliver the recent advancements in nanotechnology-based consumer products arena. This handbook is intended for a very wide-ranging audience working in the fields of advanced materials science, chemistry, chemical engineering and technology, physics, and sustainability. This handbook will be an invaluable reference source for the libraries in universities and industrial institutions, government and independent institutes, individual research groups, and scientists working in the field of nanoproducts. Overall, this handbook is planned to be a useful handbook for advanced undergraduate, graduate students, researchers, and scientists who are searching for new advanced nanoproducts for modern research demands. The editors and contributors of all chapters are famous researchers, scientists, and experts from academia and industry. On behalf of Springer, we thank contributors of all chapters for their exceptional and whole-hearted efforts in making of this handbook. Special thanks to Swati Meherishi (Editorial Director, Springer Nature), Niraja Deshmukh (Project Coordinator, Springer Nature), and the entire Major Reference Works team at Springer Nature for their wholehearted support and help during this project. In the end, all appreciation to Springer for publishing this handbook.

We would like to acknowledge Chaudhery Ghazanfar Hussain for his dedicated support during compilation of this handbook. We also would like to thank Dr. Vajiha Behranvand, Dr. Farbod Tabesh, Miss Fariba Sirous, and Elham Azadi for their special support during the making this handbook.