Green nanotechnology – use of nanotechnology to enhance the environmental-sustainability of processes currently producing negative externalities. It also refers to the use of the products of nanotechnology to enhance sustainability.Nanoengineering – practice of engineering on the nanoscale.Wet nanotechnology – involves working up to large masses from small ones.Nanobiotechnology – intersection of nanotechnology and biology.Ceramic engineering – science and technology of creating objects from inorganic, non-metallic materials.Materials science – interdisciplinary field applying the properties of matter to various areas of science and engineering. It investigates the relationship between the structure of materials at atomic or molecular scales and their macroscopic properties.Nanoarchitectonics – arranging nanoscale structural units, which are usually a group of atoms or molecules, in an intended configuration.Molecular engineeringNanoelectronics – use of nanotechnology on electronic components, including transistors so small that inter-atomic interactions and quantum mechanical properties need to be studied extensively.Nanomechanics – branch of nanoscience studying fundamental mechanical (elastic, thermal and kinetic) properties of physical systems at the nanometer scale.Nanophotonics – study of the behavior of light on the nanometer scale.CalculusChemistryComputer scienceEngineeringMiniaturizationPhysicsProtein engineeringQuantum mechanicsSelf-organizationScienceSupramolecular chemistryTissue engineeringRoboticsmedicineImplications of nanotechnology
Health impact of nanotechnologyEnvironmental impact of nanotechnologyRegulation of nanotechnologySocietal impact of nanotechnologyEnergy applications of nanotechnologyQuantum computing – computation using quantum mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement, to perform data operations.List of nanotechnology applicationsNanomaterials – field that studies materials with morphological features on the nanoscale, and especially those that have special properties stemming from their nanoscale dimensions.Fullerene – any molecule composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, or tube. Fullerene spheres and tubes have applications in nanotechnology.
Allotropes of carbon –Aggregated diamond nanorods –Buckypaper –Carbon nanofoam –Carbon nanotube –Nanoknot –Nanotube membrane –Fullerene chemistry –Bingel reaction –Endohedral hydrogen fullerene –Prato reaction –Fullerenes in popular culture –Endohedral fullerenes –Fullerite –Graphene –Graphene nanoribbon –Potential applications of carbon nanotubes –Timeline of carbon nanotubes –Nanoparticles and colloids
Nanoparticle –
Ceramics processing –Colloid –Colloidal crystal –Diamondoids –Nanocomposite –Nanocrystal –Nanostructure –Nanocages –Nanocomposite –Nanofabrics –Nanofiber –Nanofoam –Nanoknot –Nanomesh –Nanopillar –Nanopin film –Nanoring –Nanorod –Nanoshell –Nanotube –Quantum dot –Quantum heterostructure –Sculptured thin film –Nanomedicine –
Lab-on-a-chip –Nanobiotechnology –Nanosensor –Nanotoxicology –Molecular self-assembly –
DNA nanotechnology –DNA computing –DNA machine –DNA origami –Self-assembled monolayer –Supramolecular assembly –Nanoelectronics –
Break junction –Chemical vapor deposition –Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)Nanocircuits –Nanocomputer –Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS)Surface micromachining –Nanoelectromechanical relaysMolecular electronics –
Nanolithography –
Electron beam lithography –Ion-beam sculpting –Nanoimprint lithography –Photolithography –Scanning probe lithography –Molecular self-assembly –IBM Millipede –Molecular nanotechnology –
Grey goo –Mechanosynthesis –Molecular assembler –Molecular modelling –Nanorobotics –Smartdust –Utility fog –Nanochondria –Programmable matter –Self reconfigurable –Self-replication –Micromachinery –Nano-abacus –Nanomotor –Nanopore –Nanopore sequencing –Quantum point contact –Synthetic molecular motors –Carbon nanotube actuators –Microscopes and other devices
Microscopy –
Atomic force microscope –Scanning tunneling microscope –Scanning probe microscope –Sarfus –List of nanotechnology organizations
National Cancer Institute (US)National Institutes of Health (US)National Nanotechnology Initiative (US)Russian Nanotechnology Corporation (RU)Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) (EU)American Chemistry Council (US)American Nano Society (US)Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (US)Foresight Institute (US)Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (global)Cerion, Nanoparticles (US)OCSiAl, Carbon Nanotubes (Luxembourg)Vicki Colvin Director for the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology, Rice UniversityNorio Taniguchi - coined the term "nano-technology"Richard Feynman - gave the first mention of some of the distinguishing concepts in a 1959 talkEric Drexler - was the first to theorise about nanotechnology in depth and popularised the subjectRobert Freitas - nanomedicine theoristRalph Merkle - nanotechnology theoristJoseph Wang - pioneer in electrochemical sensors xploiting nanostructured materials; synthetic nanomotorsSumio Iijima - discoverer of carbon nanotubeRichard Smalley - co-discoverer of buckminsterfullereneHarry Kroto - co-discoverer of buckminsterfullereneErwin Wilhelm Müller - invented the field ion microscope, and the atom probe.Gerd Binnig - co-inventor of the scanning tunneling microscopeHeinrich Rohrer - co-inventor of the scanning tunneling microscopeChris Phoenix - co-founder of the Center for Responsible NanotechnologyMike Treder - co-founder of the Center for Responsible NanotechnologyPhaedon Avouris - first electronic devices made out of carbon nanotubesAkhlesh Lakhtakia - conceptualized sculptured thin filmsAlex Zettl - Built the first molecular motor based on carbon nanotubesAndre Geim - Discoverer of 2-D carbon film called grapheneCarlo Montemagno - inventor ATP nanobiomechanical motor (UCLA)Russell M. Taylor II - co-director of the UNC CISMMAdriano Cavalcanti - nanorobot expert working at CANLajos P. Balogh - editor in chief of Nanomedicine: NBM journalCharles M. Lieber - pioneer on nanoscale materials (Harvard) 