Nanomaterials for water cleaning and desalination, energy production, disinfection, agriculture and green chemistry

Environmental Chemistry Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 11-34

  Villaseñor, Mª Jesús ^a   Ríos, Ángel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Green synthesis; Nanoadsorbents; Nanophotocatalysis; Solar cells; Solid state hydrogen storage; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BYPRODUCTS; CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HYDROGEN STORAGE; MICROORGANISMS; NANOSTRUCTURES; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TOXICITY;

ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; GREEN SYNTHESIS; GREEN-CHEMISTRY; NANOADSORBENTS; NANOPHOTOCATALYSIS; PRODUCTION CHEMISTRY; SOLID-STATE HYDROGEN STORAGE; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER CLEANING; WATER DESALINATION;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 85026525647     PISSN: 16103653     EISSN: 16103661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10311-017-0656-9     Document Type: Review

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