Advancing Nanochemistry Education

5-Jun-2015. Europe's leading chemistry journal, Chemistry: A European Journal, due to publish in a few more days our study (DOI: 10.1002/chem.201501042) on nanochemistry education which identifies the requirements of an undergraduate course aimed to educate future chemistry and materials science scholars.

The chemical approach to nanotechnology emerged in the last three decades proved to be extremely fertile.

As chemistry increasingly turns into nanochemistry, and renewable solar energy available in sunlight and in biomass emerges as the main energy and raw materials source available to mankind, effective teaching of nanochemistry becomes increasingly important.

Among three distinctive features, the study includes a suggested approach to continuous learning and innovating in environmentally responsible ways.

The Author

A chemistry and solar energy scholar based at Italy's Research Council, Mario Pagliaro leads a research Group whose achievements are reflected in over 130 research papers spanning many fields of contemporary chemical and solar energy research.

He has been often cited for his excellence in teaching and writing.

Dr Pagliaro is the co-founder of Sicily's Solar Pole, and chairs the scientific organization of the international SuNEC and FineCat meetings in solar energy and catalysis science held annually in Sicily since 2011.

Among his 20 renowned books, Nano-Age (2010) has been called by Angewandte "... a perspective about the impact (past, present, and possibly future) of nanotechnology in society -- certainly a delicate topic, but one that the author -- appears to navigate comfortably" .

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