In Honor of Nobel Laureate Prof. M Stanley Whittingham
| NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY AND THEIR APPLICATIONS TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND UNITED NATIONS’ SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS Hilmi S. Salem1; 1SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Bethlehem, Palestinian Territory, Occupied; PAPER: 146/Physics/Regular (Oral) OS SCHEDULED: 12:20/Fri. 1 Dec. 2023/Showroom ABSTRACT: Nanoscience (NS) and nanotechnology (NT) are innovative research fields that have achieved a lot over the last decades since Nobel Prize Winner Richard Feynman introduced the concept of "nano" in 1959. These fields of knowledge deal with materials and devices with nanometer dimensions. Nanotechnology, often shortened to "nanotech," is the use of matter at atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scales for industrial purposes. It refers to a branch of science and engineering dedicated to the design, production, and use of structures, devices, and systems by manipulating atoms and molecules on a nanoscale, that is, to have one or more dimensions with the order of 100 nanometers (100 millionths of a millimeter) or less. A nanometer (nm) is an extremely small unit of length—a billionth (10-9) of a meter. On the other hand, sustainable development (SD) is an organizing principle that aims to achieve human development while also enabling natural systems to provide necessary natural resources and ecosystem services to humans. The Sustainable Development Goals, developed by the United Nations (UN’s SDGs), are a set of seventeen interrelated goals designed to serve as “a common blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and in the future, or simply the blueprint for achieving a future that is better and more sustainable for everyone. This paper attempts to investigate how NS and NT are currently used to serve SD and UN’s SDGs. Nowadays, NT and NS have many applications in various fields that serve humans, ecosystems, the environment, and nature in general. Some of these applications are medicine, pharmaceutical industry, wastewater treatment, agriculture, and others. This paper aims to investigate the relationship between NS, NT, SD, and UN’s SDGs in terms of some successful applications.
KEYWORDS: Nanoscience (NS) and Nanotechnology (NT); Sustainable Development (SD) and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN’s SDG); Some Applications of NS and NT to Serve SD and UN’s SDGs.
References: [1] Advances in Nanomaterials Sciences and Nanotechnology for Sustainable Development: A Review Gervas E. Assey* and Wilhelm S. Malasi<br />[2] Nanotechnology for a Sustainable Future: Addressing Global Challenges with the International Network4Sustainable Nanotechnology<br />[3] Nanotechnology for sustainable development: retrospective and outlook |
