Meet the editors

Dr. Indrajit Sinha is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University, BHU), Varanasi. He obtained his Masters in Chemistry from IIT Delhi (India) and PhD from BHU. Areas of research include nanoparticles, catalysis, and computational physical chemistry. He has about 46 peer-reviewed research publications that include papers in reputed

international journals, book chapters, etc.

Dr. Madhulata Shukla received her BSc and MSc degrees from Banaras Hindu University (BHU). She completed her PhD at the Department of Chemistry, Institute of Science, BHU, in 2014. After that she moved to the Department of Chemistry, IIT-BHU for National Post-Doctoral Research. At present she is a permanent faculty and head in the Department of Chemistry, G. B. College Ramgarh, Veer Kunwar Singh University,

Bihar. Her present research interests are: synthesis, structure, and interaction in ionic liquids, spectroscopic study, density functional theory calculation, and nanoparticle synthesis in ionic liquids. She has 20 international publications in reputed journals and three book chapters. She is also the editorial board member of an international journal and life member of the Indian Science Congress Association and Chemical Research Society of India.

Contents

Fuel Cells

Decontamination

Free Conditions

*by Xiao-Lan Huang*

*and Nobanathi W. Maxakato*

Environmental Pollution Remediation

*by Sundaram Singh and Shivam Bajpai*

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 9**

**Chapter 3 27**

**Chapter 4 43**

**Chapter 5 55**

**Chapter 6 75**

**Chapter 7 97**

**Chapter 8 125**

Transition Metal Chalcogenide (TMC) Nanocomposites for Environmental

Recent Development of Graphitic Carbon Nitride-Based Photocatalyst for

*by Mohamad Fakhrul Ridhwan Samsudin, Nurfatien Bacho and Suriati Sufian*

Platinum Group Metal Based Nanocatalysts for Environmental

Eco-Friendly and Facile Synthesis of Substituted Imidazoles via Nano Zirconia Catalyzed One-Pot Multicomponent Reaction of Isatin Derivatives with Ammonium Acetate and Substituted Aromatic Aldehydes under Solvent

*by Sarre M.K. Nzaba, Bhekie B. Mamba and Alex T. Kuvarega*

Remediation Application over Extended Solar Irradiation *by Sivagowri Shanmugaratnam and Shivatharsiny Rasalingam*

Ceria as an Efficient Nanocatalyst for Organic Transformations

Iron Oxide Nanoparticles: An Inorganic Phosphatase

*by Farha Naaz, Umar Farooq and Tokeer Ahmad*

Introductory Chapter: Salient Features of Nanocatalysis *by Alkadevi Verma, Madhulata Shukla and Indrajit Sinha*

*by Sandile Surprise Gwebu, Philiswa N. Nomngongo* 

Platinum-Based Carbon Nanodots Nanocatalysts for Direct Alcohol
