Nano-Age: How Nanotechnology Changes our Future

Book by Mario Pagliaro
Wiley-VCH, Weinheim
ISBN 978-3-527-32676-1
Price: € 25,90 - To complete your order, just access the Wiley's website or fill-in and send the order form [PDF]
Date of publication: July 2010

Synopsis

Is the nano-age here to stay or will a bubble soon burst? This thought-provoking page-turner takes a critical glance at how nanotechnology has affected virtually all areas of our lives. From the pharmaceutical industry to energy production and storage, many fields have been truly revolutionized during the nano-age. This book explores the topic in nine entertaining chapters.

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
- References
FROM CHEMISTRY TO NANOCHEMISTRY
- Why Small is Different
- Nanochemistry
- The Chemical Approach to Nanotechnology
- An Insight into Chemical Methodology
- Making Nanomaterials
- References
STORING AND SUPPLYING CLEAN ENERGY
- Ending the Era of the Internal Combustion Engine
- Nanotechnology-Based Batteries
- Biological Fuel Cells
- Fuel Cells for the People
- References
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
- References
ORIGINALLY DOPED METALS
- A Watershed Development in Science
- The New Reactivity of Metal-Entrapped Molecules
- Two-for-One-Catalyst
- Chiral Metals
- References
PROTECTING OUR GOODS AND SAVING ENERGY
- Multifunctional Nanocoatings
- Multifunctional Textiles
- Protecting Cultural Heritage
- Protecting Goods from Light
- References
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 Hybrid, Welcome Science
- References
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
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