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Fungi Bio-prospects in Sustainable Agriculture, Environment and
Nanotechnology, Volume Two: Extremophilic Fungi and Myco-mediated
Environmental Management explores varied aspects of fungal biology
and their relevance in microbiology and agriculture, thus allowing
for better insights on basic and advanced biotechnological
application in human welfare and sustainable agriculture. Chapters
throw light on different sectors of fungi, including fungi in
extreme circumstances, bioremediation, complex and toxic effluents,
and mycoremediation. The book was designed to explore the
possibility of huge fungal diversity for present and future
generation in different sectors of human life. Volume Two focuses
on extremophilic fungi and myco-mediated environmental management.
Actinobacteria: Diversity and Biotechnological Applications: New
and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and
Bioengineering, a volume in the series New and Future Developments
in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioengineering series, offers the
latest on the biotechnology of Kingdom actinobacteria, covering
unique niches like their endosphere, rhizospheric soil and
contaminated sites, etc. The book also covers the bioactive
secondary metabolites obtained from actinobacteria and describes
the application of microorganism (Actinobacteria) in plant growth
promotion and in environmental cleanup. Finally, the book describes
the biocontrol aspects of actinobacteria and how they can control
fungal phytopathogens and the production of secondary metabolites.
Microbial Inoculants: Recent Progress and Applications fulfills the
need to explore and learn about an efficient delivery mechanism,
selection of microbial strain as inoculants, and related
technological advances for the efficient and productive use of
microbial inoculants. Moreover, factors like methods of
formulation, interaction between host plant and microbe, impact of
inoculation on the metabolomics of plants, the effect of microbial
inoculants on soil dynamics, proteomics approach of plant-microbe
interaction, as well as the registration and regulation process of
bio inoculants for commercial production are described by leading
academicians and researchers from different parts of the world in
this comprehensive book. In the recent past, beneficial
microorganisms have been sustainably used in agriculture as a safe,
economic and effective alternative to chemical fertilizers or
pesticides. These beneficial microbes, including bacteria,
actinomycetes, and yeast were efficiently applied in soil, seeds,
fruits, or plants as inoculants, to achieve the optimum
agricultural yield. An efficient delivery method or enhanced shelf
life of microbial inoculants in the soil or seed is still a matter
of concern.
Valorization of Biomass to Bioproducts: Biochemicals and
Biomaterials discusses the-innovation and blueprint of biochemical
extraction processes and the ideal utilization of biochemicals that
help form the basis of green extraction to produce biochemicals
from biomass. The book comprises a rising arena of research focused
on designing novel, environmentally-friendly, naturally-derived and
tenable biochemicals from biomass that serve several biosustainable
purposes. Due to increasing demand in chemical and biochemical
products, and to minimize industrial space, there is an increased
need to recycle wastes and design cost-effective chemical and
biochemical units. As such, knowledge on the recovery of
biochemicals, bioconversions and extraction technologies is
essential.
Valorization of Biomass to Bioproducts: Organic Acids and Biofuels
focuses on recent technological developments and related challenges
surrounding the bioprocessing of biomass for important organic
acids and biofuels (waste to energy) for industrial applications.
Chapters present information on biomass as a source for
fermentation to produce important organic acids and next generation
biofuels. Additionally, the book includes chapters on the role of
synthetic/systems biology and metabolic engineering in producing
these valuable biomolecules of industrial interest.
Metal Oxide Defects: Fundamentals, Design, Development and
Applications provides a broad perspective on the development of
advanced experimental techniques to study defects and their
chemical activity and catalytic reactivity in various metal oxides.
This book highlights advances in characterization and analytical
techniques to achieve better understanding of a wide range of
defects, most importantly, state-of-the-art methodologies for
controlling defects. The book provides readers with pathways to
apply basic principles and interpret the behavior of metal oxides.
After reviewing characterization and analytical techniques, the
book focuses on the relationship of defects to the properties and
performance of metal oxides. Finally, there is a review of the
methods to control defects and the applications of defect
engineering for the design of metal oxides for applications in
optoelectronics, energy, sensing, and more. This book is a key
reference for materials scientists and engineers, chemists, and
physicists.
Environmental Applications of Microbial Nanotechnology: Emerging
Trends in Environmental Remediation discusses emerging trends and
recent advancements in environmental remediation. The book provides
environmental applications of microbial nanotechnology that helps
readers understand novel microbial systems and take advantage of
recent advances in microbial nanotechnologies. It highlights
established research and technology on microbial nanotechnology's
environmental applications, moves to rapidly emerging aspects and
then discusses future research directions. The book provides
researchers in academia and industry with a high-tech start-up that
will revolutionize the modern environmental applications of
microbial nanotechnology research.
Conjugated Polymers for Next-Generation Applications, Volume Two:
Energy Storage Devices describes the synthesis and characterization
of varied conjugated polymeric materials and their key
applications, including active electrode materials for
electrochemical capacitors and lithium-ion batteries, along with
new ideas of functional materials for next-generation high-energy
batteries, a discussion of common design procedures, and the pros
and cons of conjugated polymers for certain applications. The
book's emphasis lies in the underlying electronic properties of
conjugated polymers, their characterization and analysis, and the
evaluation of their effectiveness for utilization in energy and
electronics applications. This book is ideal for researchers and
practitioners in the area of materials science, chemistry and
chemical engineering.
Conjugated Polymers for Next-Generation Applications, Volume One:
Synthesis, Properties and Optoelectrochemical Devices describes the
synthesis and characterization of varied conjugated polymeric
materials and their key applications, including active electrode
materials for electrochemical capacitors and lithium-ion batteries,
along with new ideas of functional materials for next-generation
high-energy batteries, a discussion of common design procedures,
and the pros and cons of conjugated polymers for certain
applications. The book's emphasis lies in the underlying electronic
properties of conjugated polymers, their characterization and
analysis, and the evaluation of their effectiveness for utilization
in energy and electronics applications. This book is ideal for
researchers and practitioners in the area of materials science,
chemistry and chemical engineering.
Data Analytics in Biomedical Engineering and Healthcare explores
key applications using data analytics, machine learning, and deep
learning in health sciences and biomedical data. The book is useful
for those working with big data analytics in biomedical research,
medical industries, and medical research scientists. The book
covers health analytics, data science, and machine and deep
learning applications for biomedical data, covering areas such as
predictive health analysis, electronic health records, medical
image analysis, computational drug discovery, and genome structure
prediction using predictive modeling. Case studies demonstrate big
data applications in healthcare using the MapReduce and Hadoop
frameworks.
Metal Oxides for Next Generation Optoelectronic, Photonic and
Photovoltaic Applications focuses on the optoelectronic, photonic
and photovoltaic behaviors of metallic oxides and closely related
phenomena, from elementary principles to the latest findings. Each
chapter includes a comprehensive evaluation of the synthesis and
characterization of the most relevant metal oxides nanostructures
for each application. In addition, there is a focus on methods to
tune the materials’ properties in order to improve devices
performance. This book is suitable for researchers and
practitioners in academia and industry working in the disciplines
of materials science and engineering, chemistry and physics. Metal
oxides are widely used in various optoelectronic devices,
photonics, display devices, smart windows, sensors, optical
components, energy-saving, and harvesting devices. Each application
requires materials with their own specific properties. By
controlling the particle size, shape, crystal structure, one can
tune various properties of metal oxides viz. bandgap, absorption
properties, conductivity, which alter the material for the specific
application.
New and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and
Bioengineering: Recent Developments in Trichoderma Research covers
topics on-Trichoderma biodiversity, strain improvement and related
researches in bioprocess technology, chemical engineering,
bioremediation process, secondary metabolite production, Protein
production, plant disease resistance and biocontrol technology.
This book includes unique compilations of different chapters with
emerging issues in the area of Trichoderma research and its related
importance in the Biochemical-Industry-Agri-Food sector.
Functional Nanocomposite Hydrogels: Synthesis, Characterization,
and Biomedical Applications reviews how the unique properties of
nanoscale composite materials make them ideal candidates for use in
biomedical hydrogels. The book covers a range of key nanocomposite
materials for use in biomedical hydrogels, including graphene
quantum dot, cellulose and collagen nanocomposites. A wide
selection of biomedical applications for functional nanocomposite
hydrogels is explored, from drug delivery and cancer therapy, to
wound healing and bioimaging. This is a key reference for those
working in the fields of biomaterials, nanotechnology,
pharmacology, biomedical engineering, and anyone with a particular
interest in composites and hydrogels. To improve the properties of
conventional hydrogels, nanoparticles or nanostructures are
incorporated into the hydrogel networks, forming a composite
hydrogel with specialized functional properties which are tailored
to a specific biomedical application.
Composites Assembly for High Performance Fastener-less Structures
provides a broad and balanced span of information, covering both
fundamentals and applications across academic and industrial
state-of-the-art research and development on assembly, joining,
inspection and repair of high-performance structures made from
fibre-reinforced polymer composites and multifunctional
nanocomposites. This knowledge is essential for the realisation of
critical features in assembly and joining evolving procedures
(across their design, development and performance analysis) in such
multi-material systems, but also for the through-life maintenance
of composite components used in a range of engineering applications
such as those composite structures utilised for wind turbine
blades, automotive parts, aircraft wings and fuselage. The book
also addresses the non-destructive testing methods used to detect
damage occurring in composite joints, which are essential to decide
if the repair is needed. The book begins by providing a fundamental
description of the requirements for composite joining, assembly and
repair. It goes on to address a variety of joining and repair
procedures in composite structures from thermoset adhesive bonding
to thermoplastic hybridisation, through-the-thickness reinforcement
and sandwich structures. Further chapters cover the reliable
assessment of structure's damage tolerance and failure assessment
procedures, including non-destructive inspections and image
processing based structural health monitoring, and provide
understanding of the most likely deterioration mechanisms occurring
in processing and assembly of composite materials and structures.
The book is wrapped up with the ongoing state-of-the-arts in
multifunctional nanocomposites with application for
high-performance structures for self-sensing, energy harvesting and
properties tailoring. Composites Assembly for High Performance
Fastener-less Structures brings together state-of-the-art practices
for assembly, in-service damage and repair procedures along with
the existing certification and repair regulations, followed by the
futuristic opportunities for enabling and emerging polymer
nanocomposites for smart structures, for an audience of academic
researchers, advanced students, engineers and manufacturing
professionals.
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Nanoarmoring of Enzymes: Rational Design of Polymer-Wrapped
Enzymes, Volume 590 is the latest volume in the Methods in
Enzymology series that focuses on nanoarmoring of enzymes and the
rational design of polymer-wrapped enzymes. This new volume
presents the most updated information on a variety of topics,
including specific chapters on Encapsulating Proteins in
Nanoparticles: Batch by Batch or One by One, Enzyme Adsorption on
Nanoparticle Surfaces Probed by Highly Sensitive Second Harmonic
Light Scattering, Armoring Enzymes by Metal-Organic Frameworks by
the Coprecipitation Method, and Enzyme Armoring by an Organosilica
Layer: Synthesis and Characterization of Hybrid Organic/Inorganic
Nanobiocatalysts. Users will find this to be an all-encompassing
resource on nanoarmoring in enzymes.
Emergence of new and deadly infectious diseases is significantly
deteriorating the human health. Development of vaccine by the
scientist has become an important weapon to control the spread of
infectious diseases as well as to improve the life expectancy at
global level in 20th-21st Century. This book will provide the
in-depth knowledge of vaccine history, and development of new
strategies to design efficacious and safe vaccine molecule. This
book will cover the development of system vaccinology and their
applications revolutionize the vaccine discovery. This will provide
a resource for the basic and clinical researcher working to human
life expectancy by their vaccine experiments and clinical trials.
My purpose to write this book to educate the students and
researchers with modern development in the field of vaccinology and
empowering the researcher with new tools and methodology for
developing potential and immunogenic vaccines. This book will be
helpful to solve the curiosity of science and medical background
students related with vaccinology and will be helpful to devise a
new vaccine molecule to control the spread of new and emerging
pathogens. Systems biology is a rapidly expanding research
discipline aiming to integrate multifaceted datasets generated
using state-of-the-art high- throughput technologies such as arrays
and next-generation sequencing. Combined with sophisticated
computational analysis we are able to interrogate host responses to
infections and vaccination on a systems level, thus generating
important new hypotheses and discovering unknown associations
between immunological parameters.
This book highlights the optical properties of metal oxides at both
the fundamental and applied level and their use in various
applications. The book offers a basic understanding of the optical
properties and related spectroscopic techniques essential for
anyone interested in learning about metal oxide nanostructures.
This is partly due to the fact that optical properties are closely
associated with other properties and functionalities (e.g.,
electronic, magnetic, and thermal), which are of essential
significance to many technological applications, such as optical
data communications, imaging, lighting, and displays, life
sciences, health care, security, and safety. The book also
highlights the fundamentals and systematic developments in various
optical techniques to achieve better characterization,
cost-effective, user-friendly approaches, and most importantly,
state-of-the-art developing methodologies for various scientific
and technological applications. It provides an adequate
understanding of the imposed limitations and highlights the
prospects and challenges associated with optical analytical methods
to achieve the desired performance in targeted applications.
Rational Design of Enzyme-Nanomaterials, the new volume in the
Methods in Enzymology series, continues the legacy of this premier
serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in the field. This
volume covers research methods in rational design of
enzyme-nanomaterials, and includes sections on such topics as
conjugation of enzymes and dextran-aldehyde polymers, improved
activity of enzymes bound to titanate nanosheet, nano-layered
'stable-on-the-table' biocatalysts and nanoparticle-based enzyme
sensors.
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