7/10 The escalating developments of polarization, populism and political apathy threaten the stability of democratic societies. Worldwide concerns such as climate change, mass extinctions, pandemics, immigration, and economic globalization are all pressing issues.

8/10 Philosophers of education, education policy makers and international organisations such as UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 all think that critical thinking can help with these issues in the future. This is why it is being promoted as one of the most important educational goals in the 21st century.

9/10 In my own work I have explored the question of what we should do in cases when the two educational ideals of democracy and critical thinking seem to pull in opposite directions. educationjournal.web.illinois.edu/ojs/index.php/…

10/10 I have also suggested in my research that the philosophical image of an ideal critical thinker is overly idealized. This becomes apparent when we consult the current psychological knowledge of how individuals actually reason. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Thank you, Henri Pettersson, for talking about the importance of critical thinking for our societies and for the future! Let us all practice this futureproof skill also on the 364 days that are not April fool’s day!😄

(1/10) #Hydrogen as fuel of the future can avoid any of the negative effects of fossil fuels. We want to perform #HydrogenProduction from #WaterSplitting using non-toxic #Nanomaterials as #Photocatalysts and only light as energy source. 😎💧🌍RossellaGreco #OuluTC

(2/10) By memorizing/decomposing/transforming data about previously studied materials, #MachineLearning algorithms can give insights into the future😎. It allows to predict the best #Nanomaterials for photocatalytic #HydrogenProduction. (Romain Botella) #OuluTC #datadrivenscience

(4/10) 🔬 #Bottom-upMethods like hydrothermal methods, sol-gel methods, and spray pyrolysis can control size and composition, for highly efficient #HydrogenProduction systems. 💧🌍 Filipp Temerov #OuluTC #Nanotechnology

(5/10) The #CharacterizationTechniques 🔬 allow to understand if the #Nanomaterials synthesized are useful in #HydrogenProduction by investigating the properties of the materials such as morphology, optical properties, electric properties 💧🌍. (Javier Fernández-Catalá) #OuluTC

(6/10) The #CharacterizationTechniques 🔬 help researchers to follow the changes of #Nanomaterials in a catalytic process, as photocatalytic #HydrogenProduction 😎, to give information about their stability for improving their real application. (Javier Fernández-Catalá) #OuluTC

(7/10) ⚛️#SynchrotronRadiation techniques offer insights into the world of catalysts prepared by #Nanotechnology down to the atomic scale 🔍. These powerful tools unravel the structural 📊 and electronic properties for improving #Photocatalytic performance. (Shubo Wang) #OuluTC

(8/10) 💡 #SynchrotronRadiation techniques as X-ray absorption and photoemission spectroscopy allow to understand interfacial charge transfer dynamics and surface reactions for superior #Photocatalytic performance of #Nanomaterials in #HydrogenProduction 🚀(Shubo Wang) #OuluTC

(9/10) To test our #Photocatalysts in #HydrogenProduction, we use quartz reactor and a LED light source😎. Afterwards, the gas chromatogram will quantify the amount of #Hydrogen generated from #WaterSplitting💧. RossellaGreco #OuluTC

(10/10) Once experiment is done, #ComputationalMaterialScience 🖥️solves the fundamental equations of physics. This helps in studying the #Nanomaterials themselves 💎but also how the molecules are breaking and reforming to form #Hydrogen⚗️. (Romain Botella) #OuluTC

Sounds like #SustainableHydrogen can solve many problems that we are facing in the future! Thank you for sharing your expertise with this topic NANOMO Research Unit, your team is making significant effort on unlocking the power of sustainable hydrogen production!

A big thank you to all our followers and speakers from the organizing team @MiraKoski and Heidi Peuraniemi! Hopefully you got interesting insights to your work with #ResearchFuture and #FutureResearch! Looking forward to continuing the discussions!