List of nanotechnology topics
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[edit] Devices
[edit] Actual
- Break junction
- Micromachinery
- Nano-abacus
- Nanomotor
- Nanopore
- Nanocircuits
- Quantum point contact
- Synthetic molecular motors
[edit] Putative
[edit] Institutions and corporations
[edit] Nanomaterials
[edit] Fullerenes and carbon forms
- Allotropes of carbon
- Aggregated diamond nanorods
- Bingel reaction
- Buckypaper
- Carbon nanofoam
- Carbon nanotube
- Endohedral fullerenes
- Fullerene
- Fullerite
- Graphene
- Nanoknot
[edit] Nanoparticles and Colloids
[edit] Nanostructures
[edit] Persons involved in nanotechnology research
- Norio Taniguchi - coined the term "nanotechnology"
- Richard Feynman - gave the first mention of some of the distinguishing concepts in a 1959 talk
- Eric Drexler - was the first to theorise about nanotechnology in depth and popularised the subject
- Robert Freitas - nanomedicine theorist
- Ralph Merkle - nanotechnology theorist
- Sumio Iijima - discoverer of nanotubes
- Richard Smalley - co-discoverer of buckminsterfullerene
- Harry Kroto - co-discoverer of buckminsterfullerene
- Erwin Müller - invented the field ion microscope, and the atom probe.
- Gerd Binnig - co-inventor of the scanning tunneling microscope
- Heinrich Rohrer - co-inventor of the scanning tunneling microscope
- Chris Phoenix - co-founder of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology
- Mike Treder - co-founder of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology
- Phaedon Avouris - first electronic devices made out of carbon nanotubes
- Akhlesh Lakhtakia - conceptualized sculptured thin films
- Alex Zettl - Built the first molecular motor based on carbon nanotubes
[edit] Processes and instrumentation
- Atomic force microscope
- Chemical vapor deposition
- Electron beam lithography
- Ion-beam sculpting
- Nanoimprint lithography
- Nanolithography
- Photolithography
- Scanning probe microscopy
- Scanning tunneling microscope
- Surface micromachining
[edit] Related fields
- History of nanotechnology
- Implications of nanotechnology
- List of nanotechnology applications
- Nanotechnology education
- Nanotechnology in fiction
[edit] Subfields
- Bionanotechnology
- DNA Nanotechnology
- Mechanochemistry
- Mechanosynthesis
- Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
- Molecular nanotechnology
- Molecular self-assembly
- Nanobiotechnology
- Nanoelectronics
- Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS)
- Nanoengineering
- Nanomedicine
- Nanorobotics
- Synthetic molecular motors
[edit] Overlaps
- Calculus
- Chemistry
- Computer science
- Engineering
- Miniaturization
- Physics
- Protein engineering
- Quantum mechanics
- Self-organization
- Science
- Supramolecular chemistry
- Tissue engineering
