Benign-by-design advanced nanomaterials for environmental and energy-related applications

Society is facing significant daunting challenges in the 21st century, mostly related to the availability of resources, climate change, energy demands, water supply, and efficiency of processes for a more sustainable development. The future generations will have to address those issues through a multidisciplinary approach encompassing disciplines including (bio)chemistry, materials science, and engineering in an unprecedented coordinated monitoring and modeling of many factors, from social to economic, and environmental standpoints. This major task will be possible only by a multistakeholder global strategy involving not only natural and social scientists and engineers but also the industrial world, the civil society, and government