The 3rd National Seminar on Chemistry and its Applications (SNCA-3-2025)

Abstract

Nanomaterials represent a versatile and rapidly evolving class of materials with significant potential across multiple strategic sectors, including environmental remediation, biomedicine, electronics, agriculture, and catalysis. The molecular engineering of these nanomaterials through appropriate functionalization provides them with new and adaptable multifunctional properties, enhances their interactions with surrounding environmental and biological targets, and improves their physicochemical and mechanical properties, as well as their stability and bioavailability. These advances open up new opportunities for the development of next-generation nanomaterial-based systems, providing more efficient, selective, and sustainable solutions for critical challenges spanning water treatment, health, and industrial processes. This presentation will showcase representative examples of functionalized hybrid nanomaterials engineered to serve as adsorbents, catalytic systems, or sensing platforms for the selective detection, separation, and removal of environmental contaminants and pathogenic bacteria.