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General
Main article: Nanotechnology
- History of nanotechnology
- Implications of nanotechnology
- List of nanotechnology applications
- List of nanotechnology organizations
- Nanotechnology in fiction
Fundamental Nanoscience
Nanomaterials
Main article: Nanomaterials
Fullerenes and carbon forms
Main article: Fullerene
- Allotropes of carbon
- Aggregated diamond nanorods
- Buckypaper
- Carbon nanofoam
- Carbon nanotube
- Fullerene chemistry
- Fullerenes in popular culture
- Endohedral fullerenes
- Fullerite
- Graphene
- Potential applications of carbon nanotubes
- Timeline of carbon nanotubes
Nanoparticles and Colloids
Main article: Nanoparticle
Nanomedicine
Main article: Nanomedicine
Molecular self-assembly
Main article: Molecular self-assembly
Nanoelectronics
Main article: Nanoelectronics
- Break junction
- Chemical vapor deposition
- Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
- Nanocircuits
- Nanocomputer
- Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS)
- Surface micromachining
Molecular electronics
Main article: Molecular electronics
Nanolithography
Main article: Nanolithography
- Dip Pen Nanolithography
- Electron beam lithography
- Ion-beam sculpting
- Nanoimprint lithography
- Photolithography
Molecular nanotechnology
Main article: Molecular nanotechnology
- Grey goo
- Mechanosynthesis
- Molecular assembler
- Molecular modelling
- Nanorobotics
- Nanochondria
- Programmable matter
- Self reconfigurable
- Self-replication
Devices
Microscopes and other devices
Main article: Microscopy
- Atomic force microscope
- Scanning tunneling microscope
- Scanning probe microscope
- IBM Millipede
- Sarfus
Institutions and corporations
Persons involved in nanotechnology research
- Vicki Colvin Director for the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology, Rice University
- 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 Wilhelm 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
- Andre Geim - Discoverer of 2-D carbon film called graphene
- Carlo Montemagno - inventor ATP nanobiomechanical motor (UCLA)
- Russell M. Taylor II - co-director of the UNC CISMM
- Adriano Cavalcanti - nanorobot expert working at CAN
- Lajos P. Balogh - editor in chief of Nanomedicine: NBM journal
- Charles M. Lieber - pioneer on nanoscale materials (Harvard)
Related fields
Subfields
- Bionanotechnology
- Ceramic engineering
- Green nanotechnology
- Materials science
- Nanoarchitectonics
- Nanoengineering
- Nanomechanics
Overlaps
- Calculus
- Chemistry
- Computer science
- Engineering
- Miniaturization
- Physics
- Protein engineering
- Quantum mechanics
- Self-organization
- Science
- Supramolecular chemistry
- Tissue engineering
Miscellaneous
- Catalyst
- Macromolecule
- Mesh networking
- Monolayer
- Nanometer
- Photonic crystal
- Potential well
- Quantum confinement
- Quantum tunneling
- Self-assembly
- Self-organization
- Technological singularity
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