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List of ContributorsForewordAcknowledgements1 Nanocatalysts and biofuels: Applications and future challengesDesikan Ramesh, Thangavelu Kiruthik, Balasubramaniam Prabha, Maduraimuthu Djanaguiraman and Subbramu Karthikeyan2 Nanomaterials: Types, Synthesis, and CharacterizationZahra Vaseghi, Ali Nematollahzadeh3 Recent advances on classification, properties, synthesis and characterization ofnanomaterialsVeer Singh, Priyanka Yadav, Vishal Mishra4 Synthesis of metallic and metal oxide nanomaterialsAyse Demirbas, Tuna Karaytug, Nihan Arabaci, Ebru Sebnem Yilmaz, Ismail Ocsoy5 Analysis of various green methods to synthesize nanomaterialPavlos Nikolaidis6 Biosynthesis of Silver Nanoparticle from Acacia nilotica (L.)Wild. Ex. Delile Leaf ExtractKarishma I Sheikh and Kalpesh B Ishnava7 Nanomaterials for enzyme immobilizationNihan Arabaci, Tuna Karaytug, Ayse Demirbas, Ismail Ocsoy, Ahmet Kati8 Nanomaterial Biosynthesis and Enzyme Immobilization: Methods and applicationsIndu, Ankush, Mrinal Kanti Mandal, Kashyap Kumar Dubey9 Carbon nanotubes for hydrogen purification and storagePietro Bartocci, Giovanni Russo, Haiping Yang, Song Hu, Oyvind Skreiberg, Liang Wang, Fausto Gallucci, Gianni Bidini, Francesco FantozziIndex