Potential Applications of Carbon Nanotubes for Environmental Protection

Potential Applications of Carbon Nanotubes for Environmental Protection

Ratnesh Das, Pratibha Mishra, Arunesh K. Mishra, Anil K. Bahe, Atish Roy, Indu Kumari, Sushil Kashaw
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4553-2.ch011
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Abstract

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are a unique carbon material with physical, chemical, mechanical, optical, structural, and electrical characteristics researched and tested for a wide range of uses. The safeguards of environmental health have been identified as one of the most critical sustainability goals in recent decades. When it concerns identifying atmospheric toxins, carbon nanotube-based detectors offer great sensibility and precision, along with carbon nanotubes displaying the ability for adsorption to remove impurities with great rates and excellent amelioration competency. Carbon nanotubes have made essential contributions to a responsible future in wastewater treatment, air pollution management, biotechnologies, nano sensors, and sorbents. Carbon nanotubes are also utilized as a reinforcing material in green nanocomposites, which are essential for achieving desired characteristics and are ecologically benign. The utilisation of carbon nanotubes as hybrid filters, nano sensors, sorbents, and other materials is covered in this chapter, as well as its advantages for the environment.
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Introduction

In recent years, innovative nanometer-scale elements have been discovered, developed, and, in some cases, massively processed and distributed. These new nanomaterials are made up of inorganic or organic ingredients, and that they have just recently been studied in terms of their environmental impact. Carbon nanotubes are used in all of them (CNTs). Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are carbon allotropes that are tubular and composed of graphite. Their diameter and chirality determine their values. Carbon nanotubes offer a broad radius-length ratio, muscular mechanical strength and long service life. Carbon nanotubes may be utilized as metallic, semi-conductive, or insulating materials, and they are proving to be quite valuable right now. The employment of high mechanical characteristics, exceptional electrical features, high chemical and thermal stability, and large, particular surface areas is expanding in prospective methods, such as wastewater treatment, air pollution, nanosensors, compost filters, absorbers and antimicrobial agents, etc.

Figure 1.

Single wall nanotube (SWCNT) schematic designs and multi wall carbon nanotube schematics (MWCNT) (1).

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