Table Of ContentCHEMICAL SCIENCE AND
ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY
Perspectives on Interdisciplinary Research
CHEMICAL SCIENCE AND
ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY
Perspectives on Interdisciplinary Research
Edited by
Devrim Balköse, PhD
Ana Cristina Faria Ribeiro, PhD
A. K. Haghi, PhD
Suresh C. Ameta, PhD
Tanmoy Chakraborty, PhD
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Devrim Balköse, PhD, Ana Cristina Faria Ribeiro, PhD, A. K. Haghi, PhD, Suresh C. Ameta, PhD,
Tanmoy Chakraborty, PhD.
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ABOUT THE EDITORS
Devrim Balköse, PhD
Devrim Balköse, PhD, is currently a retired faculty member in the Chemical
Engineering Department at Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey.
She graduated from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara,
Turkey, with a degree in chemical engineering. She received her MS
and PhD degrees from Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, in 1974 and 1977,
respectively. She became Associate Professor in macromolecular chemistry
in 1983 and Professor in process and reactor engineering in 1990. She
worked as a research assistant, assistant professor, associate professor, and
professor between 1970 and 2000 at Ege University. She was the Head of
Chemical Engineering Department at Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir,
Turkey, between 2000 and 2009. She is now a retired faculty member in
the same department. Her research interests are in polymer reaction engi-
neering, polymer foams and films, adsorbent development, and moisture
sorption. Her research projects are on nanosized zinc borate production,
ZnO polymer composites, zinc borate lubricants, antistatic additives, and
metal soaps.
Ana Cristina Faria Ribeiro, PhD
Ana C. F. Ribeiro, PhD, is a researcher in the Department of Chemistry at the
University of Coimbra, Portugal. Her area of scientific activity is physical
chemistry and electrochemistry. Her main areas of research interest are
transport properties of ionic and nonionic components in aqueous solutions.
She has experience as a scientific adviser and teacher of different practical
courses. Dr. Ribeiro has supervised master degree theses as well as some PhD
theses and has been a theses jury member. She has been referee for various
journals as well as an expert evaluator of several research programs funded
by the Romanian government through the National Council for Scientific
Research. She has been a member of the organizing committee of scientific
conferences, and she is an editorial member of several journals. She has
received several grants, consulted for a number of major corporations and is
a frequent speaker for national and international audiences. She is a member
of the Research Chemistry Centre, Coimbra, Portugal.
vi About the Editors
A. K. Haghi, PhD
A. K. Haghi, PhD, is the author and editor of 165 books, as well as 1,000
published papers in various journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Haghi
has received several grants, consulted for a number of major corporations,
and is a frequent speaker to national and international audiences. Since 1983,
he served as professor at several universities. He is currently Editor-in-Chief
of the International Journal of Chemoinformatics and Chemical Engineering
and Polymers Research Journal and has served on the editorial boards of
many international journals. He is also a member of the Canadian Research
and Development Center of Sciences and Cultures (CRDCSC), Montreal,
Quebec, Canada. He holds a BSc in urban and environmental engineering
from the University of North Carolina (USA), an MSc in mechanical engi-
neering from North Carolina A&T State University (USA), a DEA in applied
mechanics, acoustics and materials from the Université de Technologie de
Compiègne (France), and a PhD in engineering sciences from Université de
Franche-Comté (France).
Suresh C. Ameta, PhD
Suresh C. Ameta, PhD, is currently Dean of the Faculty of Science at
PAHER University, Udaipur, India. He has served as Professor and Head
of the Department of Chemistry, and as Head of the Department of Polymer
Science, at North Gujarat University, Patan and M. L. Sukhadia University,
Udaipur. He also served as Dean of Postgraduate Studies. Prof. Ameta has
held the position of President of the Indian Chemical Society, Kolkata and is
now a life-long Vice President. He received a number of prestigious awards
during his career such as national prizes twice for writing chemistry books
in Hindi. He also received the Prof. M. N. Desai Award (2004), the Prof. W.
U. Malik Award (2008), the National Teacher Award (2011), the Prof. G. V.
Bakore Award (2007) and a Life-time Achievement Award from the Indian
Chemical Society (2011) and the Indian Council of Chemist (2015). He has
successfully guided 81 PhD students. Having more than 350 research publi-
cations to his credit in journals of national and international repute, he is also
the author of many undergraduate- and postgraduate-level books. He has
published three books with Apple Academic Press: Chemical Applications
of Symmetry and Group Theory, Microwave-Assisted Organic Synthesis,
and Green Chemistry: Fundamentals and Applications and two with Taylor
and Francis: Solar Energy Conversion and Storage and Photocatalysis. He
has also written chapters in books published by several other international
publishers. Prof. Ameta has delivered lectures and chaired sessions at
About the Editors vii
national conferences and is a reviewer of number of international journals.
In addition, he has completed five major research projects from different
funding agencies, such as DST, UGC, CSIR, and Ministry of Energy, Govt.
of India.
Tanmoy Chakraborty, PhD
Tanmoy Chakraborty, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of
Chemistry at Manipal University, Jaipur, India. He has been working in the
challenging field of computational and theoretical chemistry for the last six
years. He completed his PhD with the University of Kalyani, West Bengal,
India, in the field of application of QSAR/QSPR methodology in bioactive
molecules. He has published many international research papers in peer-
reviewed international journals with high-impact factors. Dr. Chakraborty
is serving as an editorial board member of the International Journal of
Chemoinformatics and Chemical Engineering. He is also reviewer of the
World Journal of Condensed Matter Physics (WJCMP). Dr. Chakraborty
received the prestigious Paromeswar Mallik Smawarak Padak from Hooghly
Mohsin College, Chinsurah (University of Burdwan) in 2002.
CONTENTS
Contributors ..................................................................................................xi
Abbreviations ..............................................................................................xiii
Preface .......................................................................................................xvii
PART I: Frontiers in Computational Chemistry....................................1
1. Evolutionary Computation: A Critical Overview and a
Vision for the Future .......................................................................................3
Sukanchan Palit
2. Theoretical Computation of Periodic Descriptors
Invoking Periodic Properties .......................................................................31
Shalini, Prabhat Ranjan, and Tanmoy Chakraborty
PART II: Analytical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology ......................41
3. Antimicrobial Activity of Nanosized Photocatalytic Materials.................43
Rakshit Ameta, Monika Trivedi, Jayesh Bhatt, Dipti Soni, Surbhi Benjamin,
and Suresh C. Ameta
4. Nanodevices and Organization of Single Ion Magnets
and Spin Qubits .............................................................................................67
Francisco Torrens and Gloria Castellano
5. Developing Sustainability Via Nanosystems and Devices:
Science–Ethics ...............................................................................................75
Francisco Torrens and Gloria Castellano
6. Synthesis, Characterization, and Bioappplicability of
Protein Conjugated Nanomaterials .............................................................85
Divya Mandial and Poonam Khullar
PART III: Key Issues in Industrial Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering ..................................................................133
7. A Comprehensive Review of Thymoquinone Extraction from
Nigella sativa and Its Characterization .....................................................135
Ali Yalçın and Mehmet Gönen
