Design and Synthesis of Functional Materials for Universal Water Purification with Simultaneous Value Addition

Abstract

The present doctoral thesis work mainly focuses on the preparation of sustainable engineered newlinefunctional materials and their modules such as solvothermal carbon based membrane, newlinebiopolymer based aerogels membrane and nanofibrils based membrane for water purification. newlineThe contemporary research aims to involve facile eco-friendly preparation methods such as newlinelow-temperature solvothermal method, simple co-precipitation method and sol-gel preparation newlinemethod. The present research also aims to tune physico-chemical properties of the synthesized newlineproperties such as surface area, surface functionalities and also metal atoms or heteroatom newlinedoped materials. Importantly, focusing on discovering the use of new sustainable solvents for newlinesolvothermal preparation which yields novel solvothermal carbon with properties competing newlinewith carbonaceous materials prepared by harsh synthetic protocols. Also, the research newlineconcentrating on engineering environmentally abundant biopolymers such as chitosan, newlineagarose, Bombyx mori silk fibres decorated with task specific nanocomposites for universal newlinewater purification. Apart from this, research aims to discover value-addition application such newlineas organic transformation and photocatalysis for the synthesized functional materials. newline