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This page aims to be a heierarchical directory of all topics related to nanotechnology. Items marked with an asterisk (
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Contents

General

Nanomaterials

Fullerenes and carbon forms

Nanoparticles and Colloids

Scanning probe microscopy

Microscopes and other devices

Processes

Nanolithography and nanoelectronics

Molecular nanotechnology

Devices

Institutions and corporations

Persons involved in nanotechnology research

Related fields

Subfields

Overlaps

Miscellaneous

General

Main articles: Nanotechnology


★ History of nanotechnology

★ Implications of nanotechnology

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★ Nanotoxicology

★ List of nanotechnology applications

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★ Energy Applications of Nanotechnology

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★ Potential applications of carbon nanotubes
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★ List of nanotechnology organizations

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★ Nanotechnology education

★ Nanotechnology in fiction

Nanomaterials

Main articles: Nanomaterials

Fullerenes and carbon forms

Main articles: Fullerene


★ Allotropes of carbon

★ Aggregated diamond nanorods

★ Buckypaper

★ Carbon nanofoam

★ Carbon nanotube

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★ Nanoknot
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★ Fullerene chemistry

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★ Bingel reaction

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★ Endohedral hydrogen fullerene

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★ Prato reaction

★ Fullerenes in popular culture

★ Endohedral fullerenes

★ Fullerite

★ Graphene

★ Potential applications of carbon nanotubes
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★ Timeline of carbon nanotubes

Nanoparticles and Colloids

Main articles: Nanoparticle


★ Colloid

★ Diamondoids

★ Nanocomposite

★ Nanocrystal

★ Nanostructure

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★ Nanocrystalline silicon

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★ Nanoknot
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★ Nanoring

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★ Nanorod

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★ Nanoshell

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★ Nanotube

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★ Nanowire

★ Quantum dot

★ Quantum wire

Scanning probe microscopy

Main articles: Scanning probe microscopy

Microscopes and other devices

★ Atomic force microscope

★ Scanning tunneling microscope

★ IBM Millipede

Processes

★ Dip Pen Nanolithography
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★ Feature-oriented scanning

Nanolithography and nanoelectronics

Main articles: Nanolithography, nanoelectronics


★ Break junction

★ Chemical vapor deposition

★ Dip Pen Nanolithography
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★ Electron beam lithography

★ Ion-beam sculpting

★ Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)

★ Nanocircuits

★ Nanocomputer

★ Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS)

★ Nanoimprint lithography

★ Photolithography

★ Surface micromachining

Molecular nanotechnology

Main articles: Molecular nanotechnology


★ Grey goo

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★ Grey goo in fiction

★ Mechanosynthesis

★ Molecular assembler

★ Nanorobotics

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★ Smartdust

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★ Utility fog

★ Nanochondria

★ Programmable matter

★ Self reconfigurable

★ Self-replication

Devices

★ Lab-on-a-chip

★ Micromachinery

★ Nano-abacus

★ Nanomotor

★ Nanopore

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★ Nanopore sequencing

★ Nanosensor

★ Quantum point contact

★ Synthetic molecular motors

Institutions and corporations

★ Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN), Rice University
:''See List of nanotechnology organizations.''

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 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

★ Mamuka Matsaberidze - Researcher of technology of medicinal preparations against HIV/AIDS

Related fields

Subfields

★ Bionanotechnology

★ DNA nanotechnology

★ Molecular self-assembly

★ Nanobiotechnology

★ Nanoengineering

★ Nanomedicine

★ Synthetic molecular motors

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