Nanotechnology in Environment

Generating Less Pollution

  • One example of this is how researchers have demonstrated that the use of silver nanoclusters as catalysts can significantly reduce the polluting byproducts generated in the process used to manufacture propylene oxide.
  • Propylene oxide is used to produce common materials such as plastics, paint, detergents and brake fluid.

Solar Cells

  • Researcher have demonstrated that an array of silicon nanowires embedded in a polymer results in low cost but high efficiency solar cells.
  • This, or other efforts using nanotechnology to improve solar cells, may result in solar cells that generate electricity as cost effectively as coal or oil.


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