Nanotechnology and the Challenges of Equity, Equality and Development (Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society)

Nanotechnology and the Challenges of Equity, Equality and Development (Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society)

Nanotechnology is enabling applications in materials, microelectronics, health, and agriculture, which are projected to create the next big shift in production, comparable to the industrial revolution. Such major shifts always co-evolve with social relationships. This book focuses on how nanotechnologies might affect equity/equality in global society. Nanotechnologies is likely to open gaps by gender, ethnicity, race, and ability status, as well as between developed and developing countries, unless steps are taken now to create a different outcome. Organizations need to change their practices, and cultural ideas must be broadened if currently disadvantaged groups are to have a more equal position in the nano-society rather than a more disadvantaged one. Economic structures are likely to shift in the nano-revolution, but policymakers and participatory processes can invent newly invented institutions for social welfare, better suited to the new economic order than those of the past.

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The Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society: Volume 1: Presenting Futures (Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society)

The Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society: Volume 1: Presenting Futures (Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society)

The ideas and imagery about the future that characterize nanotechnology today are shaped by multiple values and agendas which influence public investments,business strategies, infrastructure design, and public debate. Presenting Futures highlights a variety of ways that nanotechnology actors think about and seek to shape the future. It brings together social scientists, humanists, government officials, activist groups, designers, and public relations professionals into a multifaceted and at times conflicting dialogue through press releases, government reports, and advertisements taken from the front lines of the political discourse over nanotechnology, as well as original writings that situate nanotechnological futures within broader contexts. The chapters in this volume document various approaches to the future and how contemporary cultural conceptions about science, technology, and society are created and ultimately influence our own cognitive frames, social contests, and material practices.

More than a catalogue of visions, the Yearbook is designed to give social scientists, natural scientists, and the general public an opportunity to explore, reflect on, and ultimately critique these futures. In asking not so much what the future of nanotechnology may be, but rather how different social groups and organizations imagine and anticipate it, the Yearbook offers a series of starting points for exploring the role of the future in the present.

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Nanohybridization of Organic-Inorganic Materials (Advances in Materials Research)

Synthesis and application of nanoparticles have been often reported by researchers in material science, chemistry and physics. While nanoparticles themselves are well known to exhibit fascinating characteristics. interest in their improvement and promotion is now turning to the hybridization of organic and/or inorganic nano-materials. Although nano-level hybridization is an outstandingly novel and original technique, it encounters many difficulties to achieving the desired industrial application. To thoroughly review the research in this field, this book focuses on the synthesis, characterization and process of nano-hybrid materials, including nanoparticles and ultra-thin films.

It elucidates the fundamental aspects of nano-hybrid materials in the synthesis procedure, characterization, and processes with selected examples, from both the basic science and the engineering appications points of view. In fact, this is the first comprehensive compilation of new advances that covers the current status and topics of new synthetic information of nano-hybrid materials composed of organic and/or inorganic materials at the nano-meter level, in one volume. As such, the book provides a unique source of information and guidance for specialists and non-specialists alike.

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Nanomaterials Yearbook – 2009, from Nanostructures, Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies to Nanoindustry (Nanotechnology Science and Technology)

Nanomaterials Yearbook – 2009, from Nanostructures, Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies to Nanoindustry (Nanotechnology Science and Technology)

All the authors of this volume have worked in the field of nanostructures, nanomaterials and nanotechnology not more than 5-7 years. This is connected with the fact that 5-7 years ago this field of science practically did not exist. They are now working in the field of nanochemistry and nanoscience and arrived from other fields and brought with them knowledge they obtained in other arias of their work. The combination of their obtained knowledge in other fields and the new objectives produced a synergistic volume of knowledge.

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Nanomaterials Yearbook – 2009, from Nanostructures, Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies to Nanoindustry

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All the authors of this volume have worked in the field of nanostructures, nanomaterials and nanotechnology not more than 5-7 years. This is connected with the fact that 5-7 years ago this field of science practically did not exist. They are now working in the field of nanochemistry and nanoscience and arrived from other fields and brought with them knowledge they obtained in other arias of their work. The combination of their obtained knowledge in other fields and the new objectives produced a synergistic volume of knowledge.

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