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Advances in Nanocomposite Materials for Environmental and Energy Harvesting Applications pp 3–14Cite as

Nanocomposites Materials and Their Applications: Current and Future Trends

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Different nanostructures responsiveness and processability in exact shapes or dimensions are becoming increasingly important in a variety of applications, including environmental remediation (e.g., wastewater treatment), energy generation, and storage (e.g., biomedicine).

Nanotechnology and nanoscience have risen to the top of the list of the most intriguing fields of research being conducted today. By providing regulated functional building blocks into the nanomaterial society, graphene, an incomparable morphological 2-D carbon material, has sparked a gold rush in the nanomaterial society. Furthermore, the mechanical, electrical, and optical properties of graphene make it a promising candidate for use in solar energy conversion and electrochemical energy devices, among other uses.

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The authors 1 & 3 gratefully acknowledge the support from BCMaterials to pursue that work. Furthermore, Author 1 thanks the National Research grants from MINECO, Spain, “Juan de la Cierva” [FJCI-2018-037717] and he is currently on leave from CMRDI. The authors 1&3 acknowledge funding by the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERFD) through the project PID2019-106099RB-C43/AEI/https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011033 and from the Basque Government Industry and Education Department under the ELKARTEK and PIBA (PIBA-2018-06) programs, respectively.

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  1. BCMaterials, Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures, Martina Casiano, UPV/EHU Science Park, Barrio Sarriena S/N, 48940, Leioa, Spain

    Ahmed Esmail Shalan & Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez

  2. Central Metallurgical Research and Development Institute (CMRDI), P. O. Box 87, Helwan, 11421, Cairo, Egypt

    Ahmed Esmail Shalan & Abdel Salam Hamdy Makhlouf

  3. Engineering, Metallurgy, Coatings and Corrosion Consultancy (EMC3), Austin, TX, USA

    Abdel Salam Hamdy Makhlouf

  4. IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, 48009, Bilbao, Spain

    Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez

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Shalan, A.E., Makhlouf, A.S.H., Lanceros-Méndez, S. (2022). Nanocomposites Materials and Their Applications: Current and Future Trends. In: Shalan, A.E., Hamdy Makhlouf, A.S., Lanceros‐Méndez, S. (eds) Advances in Nanocomposite Materials for Environmental and Energy Harvesting Applications. Engineering Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94319-6_1

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