Abstract

Environmental pollution has been bigger concern for both developing and developed countries. Nanotechnology has been an emerging area of research due to its versatile applications in many research domain due to their high surface area, reactivity and better performance in cleaning the environment. It is interesting to note that due to large surface area to volume ratio and the presence of larger number of reactive sites where nano size materials could be highly reactive. These characteristic of nano size materials allows higher affinity of the contaminants for the quick remediation of the contaminants. The current talk will be focused on the over view of nanotechnology and its potential applications for environmental remediations.