1. Edition - June 2010
24.90 Euro
2010. XIV, 182 Pages, Hardcover
134 Fig. (15 Colored Fig.), 2 Tab. 
- General Reading -
ISBN-10: 3-527-32676-6
ISBN-13: 978-3-527-32676-1 - Wiley-VCH, Weinheim






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Is nanotechnology a hype, a bubble or will it really give the answers? Authored by an internationally renowned expert and experienced writer, 9 thought-provoking chapters each focus on different aspects of the nanotechnology revolution, taking examples from many everyday fields.

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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