Journal of Geography  & Natural Disasters
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Department Science, Cairo University of nature sciences, Cairo, Egypt

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• Perspective   
  Use of Nanotechnology in Remediation of Heavy Metals Polluted Soils
  Author(s): Mohamed Ibrahim D H*
  
  Heavy metals polluted soils are a significant worldwide environmental problem. The crops cultivated in polluted soils often contain significant levels of heavy metals that can impair human health. The current technologies such as removing up of pollutants, stabilization/solidification of pollutants, verification, soil capping, etc., used in remediation of polluted soils are not adequate. Smarter and cheaper techniques still to be addressed to decontaminate polluted soil. In the present study, nanotechnology has been adopted to immobilize heavy metals in polluted soil, in which Nano-particles; Nano-scale zero valiant iron, bentonite-nZVI, Nano alginate, Nano carbon and dendrites are used as immobilizing agents. Six soil samples collected from different locations in Egypt which have been polluted by either sewage sludge, industrial wastes, or vehicle exhausts, are treated with Nano-immo.. View More»
  

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