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Nano-Age M Pagliaro

Nano-Age By M Pagliaro

Nano-Age by M Pagliaro

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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.

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Nano-Age: How Nanotechnology Changes Our Future by M Pagliaro

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. The internationally renowned author explores the topic in nine entertaining chapters.

Nano-Age Reviews

Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. (Choice, 1 May 2011)

About M Pagliaro

Mario Pagliaro is a research chemist based at the Palermo National Research Center where he heads Sicily's Photovoltaics Research Pole and the Institue of Scientific Methodology. He has conducted research on the development of functional materials at the University of Leiden, the CNRS in Grenoble, and the RWTH Aachen. Professor Pagliaro has co-invented several innovative technologies, some of which have been commercialized, and has six books, numerous scientific papers and four international patents to his name. Since 2004 he has been the organizer of the Seminar Marcello Carapezza, and in 2005 was appointed Maitre de conferences associe at the Montpellier Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie. Besides his academic work, Professor Pagliaro is active in management education and in promoting the role of science in society.

Table of Contents

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 PHARMA INDUSTRY Pharma: An Industry to Be Cleaned Up Sol-Gel Catalysts: Philosopher's Stones Biogels: Marriage of Glass and Life Nanocatalysts: Abating Polluting Emissions and Product Contamination 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 Hybrid, Welcome Science GETTING THERE CLEANLY Why Sustainable Nanotechnology? Regulating Nanomaterials Greening Nanomaterials Understand the Risks and Minimize Them Communicating the Nanotech Risk MANAGING (NANO)INNOVATION Scholars, and not Researchers Renewing Management and Scientific Education Nexus of the Science In Praise of Scientific Culture Communicating Nanochemistry

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GOR012759607
9783527326761
3527326766
Nano-Age: How Nanotechnology Changes Our Future by M Pagliaro
M Pagliaro
Used - Good
Hardback
Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH
20100623
196
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