A Definite Vision
5.16 Conclusion, Summary, and Vast Scientific Perspectives
Environmental engineering, chemical engineering, and water process engineering are today gearing forward towards newer avenues scientific vision, profundity, and girth. The vast scientific perspectives in the field of nanotechnology and composite science needs to be re-envisioned and reframed as human civilization and human scientific genre surpasses one vast frontier over another. In this chapter, the authors repeatedly pronounce the needs of composite science, material science, and smart materials towards greater emancipation of water purification and industrial waste- water treatment. Future research trends in material science are changing the face of human civilization and human scientific progress. This chap- ter pointedly focuses on the vision and success of environmental process engineering, chemical process engineering, and material science with the sole objective of furtherance of science and engineering globally. Arsenic and heavy metal groundwater contamination are the bane to human scien- tific progress today. Developing and developed nations around the world are in the midst of deep scientific introspection, scientific fortitude, and deep scientific redemption. The author with vast scientific conscience and lucidity stresses on the need of carbon nanocomposites in the applications in hazardous wastes removal, as adsorbents and diverse avenues of scien- tific research pursuit. Human scientific and academic rigor are today in the midst of deep fortitude and redemption. Nanocomposite applications will surely open up newer future thoughts and newer visionary avenues in deep scientific research pursuits. Water technology and water purification are one such avenue of scientific might, grit, and determination. Scientific subtleties and articulation of engineering science will veritably open newer avenues in research pursuit in water process engineering, nanotechnology, and material science in decades to come.
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