Arghya Chakravorty's research while affiliated with VIT University and other places

... Other active agents such as essential oils or nanoparticles are embedded into this matrix to enhance the antimicrobial or the antifungal properties of the food packaging materials. Carbohydrate polymers-based edible films have also been developed which are highly available, eco-friendly, nontoxic [33] and biodegradable. ...

... Due to properties such as non-toxicity, biocompatibility, and microbiological activity, but also properties that result from the modification of the polymer chain, chitosan is the subject of many studies in terms of potential applications [31,61]. Literature data indicate that chitosan is used in many industries such as agriculture, food industry, environmental protection, and medicine [31,54,[62][63][64][65][66][67]. Figure 4 shows the possibility of using chitosan to produce chitosan films and its potential applications. of the solvent, which results in the loosening of the ordered chitosan structures, and then the breaking of the hydrogen bonds and transferring the polymer to the solution [58,60]. ...

... Because of their effective physical and chemical characteristics, such as their surface area to volume ratio, reaction sites, suitable pore size, and particle size, nanoparticles are appealing. Differently synthesized NPs are used in agriculture and food systems as nano sensors, nano-fertilizers, nano-insecticides, nano-remediators, and other diverse applications (Chavali and Nikolova 2019;Nazneen et al. 2022) Table 1. On the other hand, the mechanisms and roles of NPs interactions with plants are still being investigated (Singh et al. 2016). ...

... Plants in surface waterways can be processed to eliminate toxins from water (Newete and Byrne, 2016). Macrophytes (for example, freshwater-adapted angiosperms, pteridophytes, and greeneries) are specifically used to remediate border of water bodies (Mehta et al., 2021). ...

... Impacts from climate change are also expected to increase the transmission of vector-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue, chikungunya fever, and zika virus fever. Climatic events influence insect vectors' reproduction and survival rates, habitat, prosperity, and transmission; similarly, they affect the proliferation and survival rates of the infectious agent inside the vector (Rayan et al., 2021), facilitating the reemergence or expansion of endemic vector-borne diseases and promoting the migration of these diseases to new regions (Noyes et al., 2009). ...

... WWTPs are effective both in the protection of ecological life and in the sustainability of water resources (Cipolletta et al., 2021). Water availability and usability are under pressure from pollutants (Banerjee et al., 2021). Eutrophication of surface waters and coastal areas is expected to increase almost everywhere by 2030 (Friedland et al., 2021). ...

... In the past few centuries, materials experts have discovered carbon-based materials and mineral elemental blends exhibiting potential optoelectronic and dimensional qualities that are greater than the majority of their complements [8][9][10][11]. Organic NPs include carbon in the arrangement of liposomes, fullerenes, dendrimers, and polymeric micelles, and inorganic NPs consisting of magnetic, noble metal, and semiconductor NPs [12][13][14][15]. Metallic NPs are important in research, due to the fact that their precise properties are not easily accessible in isolated molecules [16]. ...

... The word cloud in Figure 3 presented the various terms or words tweeted by users and visualized the most frequently used words. The highlighted and bigger words represent the most frequently used words in the datasets, and the small highlighted words represent the words that are used less frequently [51]. The frequently used words according to the word cloud are: "Omicron", "subvariant", "COVID19", "subvariant", "health official", "new COVID19", "XBB15", "XBB15 ...

... With the passage of time, the demand for NPs due to their superb adsorption ability has increased [29]. They are currently applied in different industries including the biomedical field (acting as antimicrobial, drug delivery, biosensing, biomarker mapping, molecular imaging, targeted therapy, and antitumor agents) [30]. The green synthesis of ZnO nanoparticles has increased the demand for these nanomaterials because of their ecofriendly nature, cost-effectivity, and time-and energy-saving process compared to other conventional physicochemical processes [31]. ...

... The toxins generated in this way may lead to various adverse health effects, including immune dysfunction, endocrine disruption, cancer, damage to the gastrointestinal tract, and kidney functions. 18,19 Polystyrene is a plastic found in various forms, such as microplastics and nanoplastics. ...