The interdisciplinary approach to emerging technologies: an Italian academic initiative

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  • Giorgia Guerra University of Padova

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https://doi.org/10.2966/scrip.070310.574

Abstract

The development of a consensus that ethical, legal and social issues are of the utmost importance in the governance of emerging technologies prompted the University of Padua to launch a new academic research initiative to seize the opportunities and promises of emerging nanotechnologies. It has established the Centre for Environmental Law Decisions and Corporate Ethical Certification (CIGA),1 in the Italian town of Rovigo, in the Veneto Region, with the aim of giving proper attention to their ethical and social sustainability.
'Fractal Geometric Valley', by Michael Oliveri, This microscape was digitally stitched together from multiple field scans from a Scanning Electron Microscope. The base surface is made of highly aligned, dense zinc oxide nanorods, which were grown inside a tube furnace system by oxidizing zinc foil at high temperatures. The higher, complex structures are also made from zinc oxide, which were grown by absorbing the reactants from the vapor. The nano structures were created by UGA Physics and Engineering Assistant Professor Dr. Zhengwei Pan and his research associates.

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Published

01-Dec-2010

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Vol. 7 No. 3 (2010)

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