Zirconium and rhodium-based nanomaterials: Green synthesis and emerging applications
Md. Ahad Ali, Md. Abu Bin Hasan Susan
Zirconium (Zr) and rhodium (Rh)-based nanomaterials (NMs) have gained a surge of interest as potential candidates for new applications. There have been numerous attempts to synthesize NMs of this kind with optimum sizes, shapes, and morphologies. Most often, the successful routes for synthesis of these NMs involve hazardous chemicals and byproducts to render them unfriendly to human health and environment. Novel, more efficient, and sustainable methods for synthesizing NMs with higher stability and biocompatibility are thus critically sought for. Green chemistry has been exploited to reduce negative impacts and improve environmental benignity, and sustainability of the techniques. The application of biomolecules like fucoidans, enzymes, proteins, carbohydrates, polyphenols, alkaloids, terpenoids, flavonoids, saponins, amino acids, etc. has been proven useful as a green source in synthesis of such NMs. This chapter focuses on green syntheses of Zr and Rh-based NMs. The developments so far have been summarized and their uses in emerging application have been highlighted through an extensive review of literature. Finally, future directions and prospects of green methods have been pointed out for diverse applications.
Keywords
Green Synthesis, Zirconium, Rhodium, Nanomaterial, Emerging Application
Published online 10/20/2024, 18 pages
Citation: Md. Ahad Ali, Md. Abu Bin Hasan Susan, Zirconium and rhodium-based nanomaterials: Green synthesis and emerging applications, Materials Research Foundations, Vol. 169, pp 231-248, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644903261-9
Part of the book on Green Synthesis and Emerging Applications of Frontier Nanomaterials
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