Nanomaterials: Enabling Innovations to Plug into the Sun
Nanotechnology has come of age and rapidly moves into a development stage with exciting impacts on many industries. Nanotechnology is the logical convergence of basic sciences and engineering at the molecular scale, and is about the exploitation of the understanding of how nature works at the nanoscale level in building useful materials. Nanomaterials constructed from nanoscale building blocks often possess unique and much improved properties varying with their size. Such materials are promising in enabling innovative technologies for conversion and storage of clean and renewable energies for the future. With current challenges in climate change and sustainable development, nanotechnology is especially exciting because it provides great opportunities for technological advances in areas of solar power, solar hydrogen production and storage, and fuel cell-based sustainable transportation.
