Emerging Nanocomposites and Their Impact on Effective Dye Degradation

Abstract

Nanocomposites are a class of nanomaterials where there is more than one phase in nano dimension. Simply, they are multiphase solid materials in nano dimension. Nanocomposites are found to be attractive because of their large aspect ratio. There are different types of nanocomposites like metal, organic, metal-organic polymer, carbon nano tubes, and nano fibres. Different methodologies were adopted to synthesize the nanocomposite which includes sol-gel, wet chemical method, thermal decomposition, Pechini method, insitu polymerisation, solution blending methods, etc. The nanocomposites are found to be used mainly in photodegradation, drug delivery, sensors, biomedical applications, artificial implants, and batteries. Significant research has been carried out to analyse the dye degradation property of the nanocomposites. This chapter particularly concentrates to explain the synthesis of nanocomposite and their catalytic activity towards dye degradation.