Starch-Based Hybrid Nanomaterials for Environmental Remediation

Environmental pollution is becoming a major global issue with increasing anthropogenic activities that release massive toxic pollutants into the land, air, and water. Nanomaterials have gained most popularity in last decades over conventional methods because of their high surface area to volume ratio higher reactivity. including metal, metal oxide, zero-valent ions, carbonaceous nanomaterials, polymers function as adsorbents, catalysts, photocatalysts, membrane (filtration), disinfectants, sensors detection removal various such heavy metals, organic pollutants, dyes, industrial effluents, pathogenic microbial. Polymer-inorganic hybrid materials or nanocomposites are highly studied for contaminants. Starch, heteropolysaccharide, natural biopolymer generally incorporated other polymeric nanoparticles has been reported environmental remediation applications low-cost alternative petroleum-based polymers. Therefore, this chapter mainly highlights nanomaterials used remediation, starch-based application limitations.