The access to renewable and sustainable energy vectors, environment protection and preservation together with the development of technologies allowing to enhance healthcare and life quality for the aging world population are humanity’s greatest challenge in the 21st century. Succeeding in addressing this challenge is the only hope of ensuring prosperity of our modern society.
The development of renewable energy sources and of alternative, efficient energy conversion devices, enables global economic growth, minimizing environmental impact. This requires a multidisciplinary effort involving many fields like chemistry, physics, materials science, biology, medicine, nanotechnology, just to name a few.