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Author:   Mario Pagliaro (CNR, Palermo, Italy)
Publisher:   Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH
Imprint:   Blackwell Verlag GmbH
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.508kg
ISBN:  

9783527326761

ISBN 10:   3527326766
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   23 June 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
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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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Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. (Choice, 1 May 2011)

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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 Maître de conférences associé at the Montpellier Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie. Besides his academic work, Professor Pagliaro is active in management education and in promoting the role of science in society.

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