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Nanomaterials and Environment

Summary

The subject focuses on all the aspects of nanomaterial production and application impacting the environment. Characteristics of the nanomaterials problematic in terms of their presence in the environment are introduced, and the ways of their leaking to water, soil and air, as well as their life cycle and specifics of their presence the main ecospheres, are discussed. Students are introduced to the methods of monitoring of the engineered nanoparticle presence in the environment, possibilities of assessments of their toxicity and risks they pose to the particular groups of organisms as well as human health. Attention is given to the prevention of the nanomaterial pollution, removal of this pollution and environmental technology applications of the nanomaterials.

Literature

SHATKIN, Jo Anne. Nanotechnology: health and environmental risks. Second edition. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1439881750 ;
SIDDIQUI, Manzer H., Mohamed H. AL-WHAIBI and Firoz MOHAMMAD, ed. Nanotechnology and plant sciences. First edition. New York, NY: Springer International Publishing, 2015. ISBN 978-3-319-14501-3.
KOLE, Chittaranjan, D. Sakthi KUMAR and Mariya V. KHODAKOVSKAYA, ed. Plant Nanotechnology: Principles and Practices. First edition. New York, NY: Springer International Publishing, 2016. ISBN 978-3-319-42152-0.

Advised literature

TIQUIA-ARASHIRO, Sonia M. and Debora FRIGI RODRIGUES, ed. Extremophiles: Applications in Nanotechnology. New York, NY: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2016. ISBN 978-3-319-45214-2 ;
PRASAD, Ram, Vivek KUMAR and Manoj KUMAR, ed. Nanotechnology: Food and Environmental Paradigm. Springer Singapore, 2017. ISBN 978-981-10-4677-3 ;
RAI, Mahendra a Nelson DURAN, ed. Metal nanoparticles in microbiology. Heidelberg: Springer, 2011. ISBN 978-364-2183-119 ;
HURST PETROSKO, Sarah and Emily S. DAY. Biomedical nanotechnology: methods and protocols. Second edition. New York: Humana Press, 2017. Springer protocols (Series), 1570. ISBN 978-1-4939-6838-1 ;


Language of instruction čeština, angličtina
Code 9360-0183
Abbreviation NZP
Course title Nanomaterials and Environment
Coordinating department CNT - Nanotechnology Centre
Course coordinator Mgr. Oldřich Motyka, Ph.D.