PREFACE

Understanding and utilizing the interactions between environment and nanoscale materials is a new way to resolve the increasingly challenging environmental issues we are facing and will continue to face. Therefore, the applications of nanotechnology in environmental engineering have been of great interest to many fields, and consequently, a fair amount of research on the use of nanoscale materials for dealing with environmental issues has been conducted.

The aim of this book is to report on the results recently achieved in different countries. We hope that the book can provide some useful technological information for environmental scientists and assist them in creating cost-effective nanotechnologies to solve critical environmental problems, including those associated with energy production.

Maohong Fan*
C P Huang
Alan E. Bland
Zhonglin Wang
Rachid Slimane
Ian Wright