Quantum Dots Based Materials for Water Treatment
Chetna Tewari, Sumit Kumar, Neema Pandey, Sandeep Pandey, Nanda Gopal Sahoo
Quantum dot is a new class of nanomaterials having size in nanometers (˂10 nm). This material has excellent photo-catalytic activity towards dyes and pollutants with great absorbance and photoluminescence properties. It shows shifting of peak in UV-FL data which indicates the excitation dependent emission spectra means tunable properties in different wavelength and this property makes it a wonderful probe for sensing application for different heavy metals, pollutants present in water. In this chapter the synthesis, properties, types, application of quantum dots and focus on the research that has been done in field of water treatment with possible future outcomes is discussed.
Keywords
Metal Detection, Photo-Catalytic Activity, Quantum Dots, Sensor, Water Treatment
Published online 2/1/2020, 25 pages
Citation: Chetna Tewari, Sumit Kumar, Neema Pandey, Sandeep Pandey, Nanda Gopal Sahoo, Quantum Dots Based Materials for Water Treatment, Materials Research Foundations, Vol. 96, pp 280-304, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644901250-11
Part of the book on Quantum Dots
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