Nano–Age: How Nanotechnology Changes Our Future

Is nanotechnology a hype, a bubble or will it really provide all the answers? Authored by an internationally well–known expert on nanotechnology and an experienced writer, this book consists of 8 chapters, each focusing on a different aspect of the nanotechnology revolution.
The chapters cover examples taken from many fields, ranging from energy production and sustainability to the pharmaceutical industry.
An entertaining and thought–provoking page–turner on the consequences of nanotechnology in our everyday lives.


Spis treści:
Preface
CAPTURING SUN′S ENERGY
Solar Power. Now
Never Trust the Skeptics
Solar Power for the Masses
Why Nanoscience is Relevant to the Solar Energy Industry
Expanding the Solar Business
Solar Hydrogen from Water
FROM CHEMISTRY TO NANOCHEMISTRY
Why Small is Different
Nanochemistry, The Chemical Approach to Nanotechnology
An Insight into Chemical Methodology
Making Nanomaterials
STORING AND SUPPLYING CLEAN ENERGY
Ending the Era of the Internal Combustion Engine
Nanotechnology–Based Batteries
Biological Fuel Cells
Fuel Cells for the People
CATALYSIS: GREENING THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
Pharma: An Industry to be Cleaned Up
Sol–Gel Catalysts: Philosopher′s Stones
Biogels: Marriage of Glass and Life
Nanocatalysts: Abating Polluting Emissions
ORIGINALLY DOPED METALS
A Watershed Development in Science
The New Reactivity of Metal–Entrapped Molecules
Two–for–One–Catalyst
Chiral Metals
PROTECTING OUR GOODS AND SAVING ENERGY
Multifunctional Nanocoatings
Multifunctional Textiles
Protecting Cultural Heritage
Protecting Goods from Light
BETTER MEDICINE THROUGH NANOCHEMISTRY
Nanomedicine
Hemostasis: Change in Surgery and Emergency Medicine
Biogels: Biotechnology Made Possible
Small is Beautiful? Nanotech Cosmetics
Nanotechnology in Orthopedics
A Hyb rid, Welcome Science
GETTING THERE CLEANLY
Sustainable Nanotechnology
Regulating Nanomaterials
Greening Nanomaterials
Communicating the Nanotech Risk
MANAGING THE (NANO)INNOVATION
Scholars, and not Researchers
Renewing Scientific and Management Education
The Nexus Science
In Praise of Scientific Culture
Communicating Nanochemistry

Nota biograficzna:
Mario Pagliaro has received his PhD in chemistry in 1998 from the University of Palermo. He works at the Palermo National Research Center where he heads the Organic Solar Sicily′s Research Pole and the Institute for Scientific Methodology. Mario Pagliaro has conducted research at prestigious institutions including the University of Leiden, the CNRS in Grenoble, the RWTH Aachen and the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie in Montpellier. He maintains fruitful international collaborations which have resulted in several innovations and patents. Besides his academic work Mario Pagliaro is active in management education and in promoting the role of science in society.