Nanotechnologies, Sabrina Zuccalà awarded as Italian excellence

“I am very proud to have achieved this important result, which rewards my ten-year commitment in research with nanomaterials. I understood that nature, if well understood, offers ingenious solutions to difficulties that seem insurmountable with simplicity. Nanotechnologies are this: a secret stolen from the infinite Wisdom of Creation. But it is the work of man and the confidence in his own means that have done what these technologies do today: an extraordinary solution to the most disparate problems “. This was said by Sabrina Zuccalà, president of the international nanotechnology laboratory ‘4ward360’, after receiving the award for Italian excellence on the orange terrace of the Waldof Astoria resort in Rome during the annual gala of Italian excellence. In the fifth edition of the event Claudio Cecchetto, talent scout, producer and host, were also awarded; Alex Pinna, famous sculptor and exponent of contemporary art; Pier Francesco Rimbotti, CEO and owner of Infrastructure Spa, leader in the field of renewable energy; Annamaria Bernardini De Pace, lawyer and journalist, the best known Italian marriage lawyer; Aldo Cingolani CEO and owner of Bertone Design, a symbol of made in Italy in the world; Adriano Panatta, legend of national tennis, Alfredo Cestari, founder of the Cestari Group. “For my business – continues Zuccalà – I have received many awards, including, recently, the International Award of Excellence for Merit of the Italian Republic and that of Ambassador Business Woman last week, a very important international recognition. However, what is really important to me is knowing that thanks to the studies and research of my laboratory we can find concrete solutions to the lives of ordinary people every day and collaborate on important projects with the Leonardo Institute or the Ministry of Defense. In fact, we pioneered the preservation of cultural heritage with nanomaterials with Qin Shi Huang’s terracotta army protection and conservation treatment in Xi’an, China, we were the first to discover porous surface water and oil repellent materials. to intervene in many construction projects, and recently we have treated the first masks with nanotechnologies. I am pleased, among other things, that merit and women who commit themselves with enormous sacrifices in the world of work will be rewarded ”. “Gradually during these years I have discovered – continues Zuccalà – that the principle that informs this technology, which was still little known until a few years ago, is revolutionary: it is a new approach based on the knowledge of the properties of matter on a nanometric scale. (the nanometer corresponds to one billionth of a meter), i.e. on the atomic and molecular scale. Able to respond to critical issues in the field of protection and preservation from degradation of material surfaces, nanotechnology can have an infinite series of applications in many sectors, from electronics to digitalization, from medicine to artificial intelligence to the most varied industrial sectors up to renewable energy, the conservation of cultural heritage and much, much more. I remember my first assignment from the City of Milan, I was able to explain, despite my inexperience, that nanotechnological formulations act at the molecular level, but do not affect the surface and internal characteristics of the materials “.