Actualización del currículum en educación química: la importancia de la luz solar en nuestra vida Authors Julia Pérez-Prieto Abstract Sunlight induced processes are essential for living organisms. Nature shows that thermal and photochemical processes are combined to provide vital molecules in living beings. Furthermore, there are a variety of technological applications based on the capacity of some materials to absorb light. Sunlight is, without doubt, the «greenest» chemical reagent. But we must also bear in mind that sun exposure can cause adverse effects in organisms and materials. Downloads Text complet (Català) Published 2014-07-30 Issue No. 17 (2014) Section Monografia: Química i sostenibilitat License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Educació Química, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Societat Catalana de Química (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Educació Química.Authors answer to Societat Catalana de Química for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.Societat Catalana de Química declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.Educació Química is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.