Weinheim, 7-Dec-2016
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Mario Pagliaro has been invited by
ChemPubSoc Europe to join the
Editorial Advisory Board of
ChemistryOpen, starting January
1st 2017.
An open access
general chemistry journal of high impact published
by Wiley-VCH and ChemPubSoc Europe since 2011,
ChemistryOpen in 2015 received an
impact factor of 3.585.
Dr Pagliaro has been proposed as a scientist who can distinguish
high quality for the journal. The initial term of Dr
Pagliaro's membership is four years (which may be extended to a
further period of four years).
A group of 16 European chemical Societies,
ChemPubSoc
Europe
was formed in the late 1990s for the purpose of publishing high-quality
chemistry journals. Together with Wiley-VCH, they publish a number of
high-quality titles including
Chemistry
– A European Journal,
ChemSusChem,
and of course
ChemistryOpen.
"J
oining
the board of this prestigious scientific journal is another opportunity
to reshape environmental, energy and innovation policies in Italy's
largest region", comments Dr Pagliaro - the renowned chemistry
and energy scholar based at Italy's CNR whose work is developed in co-operation with leading researchers based
in 20 countries.
His research interests are in the broad areas of
nanochemistry, solar energy and the
bioeconomy.
In 2008 he introduced the term "Helionomics" in the book
Flexible Solar Cells.
His Group's research achievements, include over 180 research papers,
20 books, several book chapters and green chemistry technologies used
across the world. He has a prolonged interest also in sustainability
and management topics. Between September and December 2015 he was
president of Palermo's public energy utility.