Population growth causes increasing in intensive food production in many developed and rapidly growing economies towards food security. To maximize crop yields and a significant increase in livestock production, high levels of agrochemicals are used, globally. The toxic agrochemicals degrade the downstream water quality and result in the eutrophication of water bodies. To remove the excess amount of agrochemicals in water, diverse approaches have been developed. Among them, nanoremediation is an emerging one that is defined as decontamination mediated by nanostructures. In the talk, recent advances of different mechanisms of nanoremediation including nanophotocatalysts, nanoadsorbents and nanobiocatalysts will be discussed.

Amene Naseri received her Ph.D. in Nanotechnology from the Institute for Nanoscience & Nanotechnology (INST) of Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Iran in 2018. After one year and a half of working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Physics Department of SUT on “shape-dependent electrocatalytic activity of rGO supported Pd nanoparticles”, she joined the Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran (ABRII) (located in Karaj, Iran) in 2020 as an assistant professor of Nanotechnology Department. Her current research interests focus on the synthesis and characterization of different nanostructures for clean energy and environmental applications.