Nano-carbons from pollutant soot: A cleaner approach toward clean environment

Smart Materials for Waste Water Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 127-153

  Tripathi, Kumud Malika ^a   Gupta, Nidhi Rani ^b   Sonkar, Sumit Kumar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE SUD   (France)

^b GSSDGS Khalsa College   (India)

^c MALAVIYA NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Black carbon; Diesel particulate matter; Dye removal; Metal sensing; Photoluminescent; Pollutant soot

Indexed keywords

EID: 85101893579     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119041214.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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