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Journal of Nanomaterials
Volume 2015, Article ID 979026, 2 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/979026

Editorial
Nanomaterials for Energy and Environmental Applications

Sesha Srinivasan,1 Arunachalanadar M. Kannan,2 Nikhil Kothurkar,3

Yehia Khalil,4 and Sarada Kuravi5
1
Florida Polytechnic University, 4700 Research Way, Lakeland, FL 33805, USA
2
The Polytechnic School, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ 85212, USA
3
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritanagar, Coimbatore 641112, India
4
United Technologies Research Corporation, 411 Silver Lane, East Hartford, CT 06118, USA
5
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA

Correspondence should be addressed to Sesha Srinivasan; ssrinivasan@flpoly.org

Received 19 November 2015; Accepted 23 November 2015

Copyright © 2015 Sesha Srinivasan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution
License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly
cited.

Nanomaterials enabled technologies have been seamlessly
integrated into applications such as aviation and space, chem-
ical industry, optics, solar hydrogen, fuel cell, batteries, sen-
sors, power generation, aeronautic industry, building/con-
struction industry, automotive engineering, consumer elec-
tronics, thermoelectric devices, pharmaceuticals, and cos-
metic industry. Clean energy and environmental applications
often demand the development of novel nanomaterials that
can provide shortest reaction pathways for the enhancement
of reaction kinetics. Understanding the physicochemical,
structural, microstructural, surface, and interface properties
of nanomaterials is vital for achieving the required efficiency,
cycle life, and sustainability in various technological appli-
cations. Nanomaterials with specific size and shape such as
nanotubes, nanofibers/nanowires, nanocones, nanocompos-
ites, nanorods, nanoislands, nanoparticles, nanospheres, and
nanoshells to provide unique properties can be synthesized
by tuning the process conditions.
The major objective of this special issue is to bring out
the salient research paradigms of nanomaterials and their
potential impacts on clean energy generation, storage, uti-
lization, waste heat recovery, environmental detoxification,
and disinfection and advocate the process sustainability. The
research papers accepted after thorough review process for
publication in this issue are briefly narrated below. The poten-
tial clean energy and environmental applications where the
nanomaterials are employed and reported in this special issue
are for (a) microcombustion and thermoelectric devices,
(b) compressed natural gas reservoirs fabrication, (c) high
temperature shale well drilling, and (d) water purification by
removal of arsenic (V) and bisphenol.
D. McNally et al. reported the design of a thermoelec-
tric device using approximately 8 nm platinum nanoparti-
cles as catalysts for microcombustion applications. The as-
developed Pt nanoparticles seem to play a major role in
controlling the fuel conversion (in case of ethanol, methane,
propane, and butane) and the heat production rate as well.
For the fabrication of natural gas reservoirs, it is reported
by G. J. Pavani et al. that polymeric nanocomposites tandem
with carbon fiber composites (i) improved the strengths of
the liner, (ii) reduced the final weight of the reservoir, and
(iii) decreased the gas permeability as well. These nanocom-
posites based compressed natural gas (CNG) reservoirs are
potential alternative for vehicular applications. X. Yang et
al. have successfully developed stabilization processes of
silica nanoparticles based brine muds for the shale gas
wells drilling applications. These nanoparticles brine muds
(NPBMs) enhanced the mud systems’ capabilities such as
physical plugging of nanoparticles, balanced chemical activ-
ity with inorganic salts (NaCl, KCl, etc.), rational drilling
mud density, and the wellbore stability. Other potential appli-
cations of water treatment residual nanoparticles (nWTR)
as sorbents for the arsenic removal is demonstrated by E.
Elkhatib et al. According to the authors, the nWTR consists
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of iron, silicon, calcium, and aluminum in either oxide

or hydroxide forms. It is claimed that the nWTR showed
at least 16 times higher reactivity in arsenic (V) removal
when compared to their bulk counterparts. Similar to arsenic
removal mentioned above, K. Mphahlele et al. have shown the
removal of bisphenol A (BPA) from aqueous solution using
Fe/N-CNTs-𝛽-cyclodextrin nanocomposites. All the above
research papers are original and are well aligned with the
scope of this special issue.

Acknowledgments
We thank all the contributing authors and reviewers for their
help in bringing out this special issue. We also thank the
editorial board for the smooth process flow and publication.
Sesha Srinivasan
Arunachalanadar M. Kannan
Nikhil Kothurkar
Yehia Khalil
Sarada Kuravi
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