Advances in Food Nanotechnology Enhancing Nutrition, Safety and Sustainability

In a world with an ever-growing population and where climate change is impacting global food production, it is crucial to advance research in sustainable farming methods that can generate higher yields to meet the rising food demand. Where traditional farming methods are limited by production capabilities and sometimes by policy, nanotechnology has the potential to address productivity and mitigate damage to local ecosystems. Dedicated to the intersection of nanotechnology and food science, this book examines how nanotechnology, electronics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can revolutionize food production, processing, and distribution to address climate change and global food security challenges. Additionally, the book explores a wide range of topics across the food production system, from soil fertility, crop yield and pest management to food fortification, processing and packaging and it reports on the latest advances in AI, Smart Farming, the Internet of Things (IoT) and nanotechnology and how these can contribute to increased global food security. Providing a detailed overview of the latest advances in nanotechnology and its applications in many areas of the food industry, this book provides vital information for researchers, academics, professionals and policy makers working in nanotechnology, food science, agriculture and environmental science.

Dr Ratneshwar Kumar Ratnesh is an Assistant Professor of the Electronics & Communication Engineering Department at the Netaji Subhas University of Technology (NSUT), Delhi, India. He received a BTech degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from UPTU, MTech degree from Jamia Millia Islamia Central University, Delhi, India, and PhD from Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India in 2017. He serves as a visiting faculty member at several universities and institutes in India and abroad (NGCEF, Australia). He is a member of the editorial boards of more than five journals and reviews for approximately 20 international SCI-indexed journals. He has published more than 60 international SCI/Scopus journal papers and 15 conference papers, with total citations of ~1030, h-index: 20 and i-10 Index: 30. He has been deeply involved in electronics and medical research in both private and academic institutions. He is a recipient of a DST SERB-TARE grant as well as completing two AICTE sponsored projects from the Government of India, and currently has an ongoing ANRF-sponsored project based on solar cell efficiency improvement. He has received three consultancy projects from the Government of India (Mint) and two from private organizations. He has secured four patents (three Indian and one German). He received the Commendable Research Award twice, in 2017 and 2018, at DTU, Delhi, India. He is the author of three international books in the fields of Industry 4.0 and recent advancements in electronics. His current research interests include the development of very large-scale integrated circuits using nanotechnologies such as carbon nanotube field-effect tran­sistor (CNTFET), quantum dots (QDs)-based sensors, food technology, qubit, metamaterials, and thin-film technology. Furthermore, he is also associated with synthesis, characterization, modelling and simulation of smart semiconductor material CNT and QDs at the nanoscale.

Ramesh Kumar is an Assistant Professor of the Electronics & Communication Engineering Department at the Manipal University Jaipur, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. He received his B.E. in Electronics Instrumentation & control engineering from the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur in 2007 and his M.Tech degree in Instrumentation & Control from Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, in 2009. He subsequently received his Ph.D degree in Instrumentation from Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, in 2019. From 2014 to 2019 he was a Research Scholar with the Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar under the Signal Processing Laboratory and from 2009-14 and then from 2019-present, he has been an Assistant Professor with the Electronics Department. He is the author or edited of five books and more than 75 SCI/Scopus/conference articles. He has received two MHRD CRS grant R&D projects from Govt. of India and One Project ongoing allocated by SERB Govt. of India. His research interests include Biomedical Instrumentation, Tomography application in medical and industrial settings.

Dr. Jay Singh has been working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Institute of Sciences at Banaras Hindu University since 2017. He received his Ph.D. degree in Polymer Science from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology in 2010 and received his MSc and BSc from Allahabad University, Uttar Pradesh, India. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Physical Laboratory in New Delhi, Chonbuk National University in South Korea and Delhi Technological University. He has also received many prestigious fellowships like the CSIR (RA), DST-Young scientist fellowship, DST-INSPIRE faculty award and more. His research interests include the development of various chemically and biologically synthesized nanomaterials and their nanobiocomposite, conducting polymer and self-assembled monolayers and their application in biosensors. He has published more than 160 international research papers with total citations of more than 6000 and a h-index of 43. He has completed various research projects in different funding agencies and he has more than 18 edited or authored books and has authored more than 60 book chapters for publications with Elsevier, Springer Nature, IOP, Wiley, and CRC. He has also successfully handled many special issues in various journals with Elsevier, Willey Springer, MDPI and Frontiers. He is currently actively engaged in fabricating sustainable metal oxide-based biosensors for clinical diagnosis, food packaging applications, drug delivery and tissue engineering applications. His research has contributed significantly to the fundamental understanding of interfacial charge transfer processes and sensing aspects of metal nanoparticles.