Water safety is one of the major environmental issues. Drawbacks of the conventional
disinfection methods necessitate alternative, novel, low-cost, safe and highly efficient …

This thesis examines the feasibility of using silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) as a viable
disinfectant. It explores the opportunities and challenges of using AgNPs as an antimicrobial …

With increasing the biological contamination in drinking water day by day, the demand for
fresh drinking water is also increasing. The limitations of current traditional water disinfection …

Open defecation, improper disposal of sewer line wastes and mismanagement of infectious
biomedical wastes may cause severe biological contamination to the water reservoirs. On …

Highlights•The use of nano-sized silver as drinking water disinfectant.•Immobilization of
silver nanoparticles onto various surfaces.•Problems associated with silver disinfection …

Conventional water purification or disinfection techniques, such as chemical treatment,
water purification via ozone or chlorine based components lead to the generation of …

Pathogenic bacteria are one of the main reasons for worldwide water-borne disease
causing a big threat to public health, hence there is an urgent need to develop cost-effective …

Nanotechnology has been rapidly developing in the past decade, and metal nanomaterials
have shown promising improvement in microbial control. Metal nanoparticles have been …

Nanotechnology for water disinfection application gains increasing attention. Diatomite is
one kind of safe natural material, which has been widely used as absorbent, filtration agents …

Nanomaterials and their increasing use in manufactured products are of great concern to
wastewater treatment systems and the environment. Nanosilver has become one of the most …