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Environmental Monitoring and Remediation

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Environmental media such as air, water or soil are polluted due to industrial, agricultural and human activities that threat humans, wildlife and plants. The arid zone of Rajasthan is severely affected with poor quality underground water due to high fluoride, salinity and other geogenic contamination. The high salinity of water has drastically reduced soil fertility. The silicosis and industrial air pollution are other challenging aspects in western Rajasthan.

We are developing novel materials for efficient and sustainable catalytic converters for automobiles, in-house air quality monitoring and improvement, water quality monitoring and treatment, and saline soil remediation for increasing fertility. 

Representative Publication: 

  1. Shejale,K.P., Laishram,D., and Sharma,R.K., (2018), “Engineered ZnO-TiO2 Nanospheres for High Performing Membrane Assimilated Photocatalytic Water Remediation and Energy Harvesting,” ChemistrySelect (Wiley), Vol. 3, pp 7291-7301

  2. Soni,V.K., Roy,T., Dhara,S., Choudhary,G., Sharma,P.R., Sharma,R.K., (2018), On the investigation of acid and surfactant modification of natural clay for photocatalytic water remediation, Journal Material Science, (Springer), Vol. 53 pp 10095-10110.

  3. Devika,L., Shejale,K.P., Gupta,R., and Sharma,R.K., (2018), “Heterostructured HfO2/TiO2 Nano-Spheroids for Visible Photocatalytic Water Remediation,” Material Letters, (Elsevier) Vol. 231, pp 225-228

  4. Devika,L., Shejale,K.P., Gupta,R., and and Sharma,R.K., (2018), “Solution Processed Hafnia Nanoaggregates: Influence of Surface Oxygen on Catalytic Soot Oxidation,” ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, (American Chemical Society) Vol. 6, pp 11286-11294

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