- "Nanotechnology, often shortened to nanotech, is the use of matter on atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scales for industrial purposes."
Application of nanotechnology in energy generation, conversion, and storage.
Nanomaterials: The creation and characterization of materials at the nanoscale level, and their unique properties and potential applications in energy technologies.
Energy conversion and storage: The use of nanotechnology to improve the efficiency and performance of energy conversion and storage technologies, such as solar cells, batteries, and fuel cells.
Nanoscale devices and sensors: The development of nanoscale devices and sensors for monitoring and controlling energy systems, such as smart grids and energy storage systems.
Quantum mechanics: The application of quantum mechanics principles to the design and optimization of nanoscale energy materials and technologies.
Nanofabrication techniques: The methods used to create and manipulate nanoscale structures and devices, including lithography, etching, and deposition.
Environmental impact: The potential environmental impact of nanotechnology-enabled energy technologies, including issues related to toxicity, waste, and sustainability.
Nanomaterials safety: The study of the risks associated with the manufacture, use, and disposal of nanoscale materials, including their potential effects on human health.
Nanotechnology policy and regulation: The development of policies and regulations to ensure the safe and responsible use of nanotechnology in the energy sector.
Biomimetics and bio-inspired nanotechnology: The use of nature-inspired design principles to create efficient and sustainable energy technologies.
Computational modeling and simulation: The use of computational techniques to model and simulate the behavior of nanoscale energy materials and devices, aiding in their design and optimization.
Nanomaterials: This refers to the use of nanoparticles and other nanoscale materials in raw form or as composites, often for the design of advanced materials for energy storage or conversion applications.
Nanoelectronics: This involves the use of nanoscale devices and circuits implemented for energy harvesting, energy storage, and other electronic applications.
Nanobiosensors: These are nanosensors that are able to detect and analyze biological molecules, often used in energy conversion and storage applications.
Nanofluids: These are fluids that contain nanoparticles or other nanoscale materials, often used in energy storage and heat transfer applications.
Nanocoatings: These are nanoscale coatings designed to provide enhanced functionality, durability, or specific surface properties, often used in energy storage or solar cell applications.
Nanoporous materials: These have a high surface area to volume ratio, and often possess unique optical, electronic, and catalytic properties that make them useful in energy conversion and storage applications.
Nanotubes and Nanowires: These are cylindrical or rod-shaped molecules that possess unique mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties that make them useful as energy storage or electronic components.
Nanophotonics: This includes the study of light and its interaction with nanoparticles and other nanoscale materials, which has applications in solar energy and light-based communication technologies.
Nanolithography: This refers to the manufacture of intricate structures on a nanoscale using various methods, including conventional photolithography and scanning probe microscopy, and are often used in electronic and energy applications.
Supramolecular Nanochemistry: It involves the study and design of self-assembling molecules that can potentially provide various benefits such as increased stability, reactivity, and energy efficiency. These supramolecular systems have applications ranging from energy conversion, storage to sensing and catalysis.
- "The earliest, widespread description of nanotechnology referred to the particular technological goal of precisely manipulating atoms and molecules for fabrication of macroscale products, also now referred to as molecular nanotechnology."
- "The National Nanotechnology Initiative defined nanotechnology as the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers (nm)."
- "This definition reflects the fact that quantum mechanical effects are important at this quantum-realm scale."
- "Nanotechnology as defined by size is naturally broad, including fields of science as diverse as surface science, organic chemistry, molecular biology, semiconductor physics, energy storage, engineering, microfabrication, and molecular engineering."
- "Nanotechnology may be able to create many new materials and devices with a vast range of applications, such as in nanomedicine, nanoelectronics, biomaterials energy production, and consumer products."
- "nanotechnology raises many of the same issues as any new technology, including concerns about the toxicity and environmental impact of nanomaterials, and their potential effects on global economics, as well as speculation about various doomsday scenarios."
- "These concerns have led to a debate among advocacy groups and governments on whether special regulation of nanotechnology is warranted."
- "Scientists currently debate the future implications of nanotechnology."
- "The earliest, widespread description of nanotechnology referred to the particular technological goal of precisely manipulating atoms and molecules for fabrication of macroscale products, also now referred to as molecular nanotechnology."
- "This definition reflects the fact that quantum mechanical effects are important at this quantum-realm scale."
- "A more generalized description of nanotechnology was subsequently established by the National Nanotechnology Initiative, which defined nanotechnology as the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers (nm)."
- "nanotechnology raises many of the same issues as any new technology, including concerns about the toxicity and environmental impact of nanomaterials, and their potential effects on global economics."
- "Nanotechnology may be able to create many new materials and devices with a vast range of applications, such as in nanomedicine."
- "Nanotechnology as defined by size is naturally broad, including fields of science as diverse as surface science, organic chemistry, molecular biology, semiconductor physics, energy storage, engineering, microfabrication, and molecular engineering."
- "These concerns have led to a debate among advocacy groups and governments on whether special regulation of nanotechnology is warranted."
- "nanotechnology raises many of the same issues as any new technology, including concerns about the toxicity and environmental impact of nanomaterials."
- "The associated research and applications are equally diverse, ranging from extensions of conventional device physics to completely new approaches based upon molecular self-assembly."
- "nanotechnology raises many of the same issues as any new technology, including concerns about the toxicity and environmental impact of nanomaterials."
- "the definition shifted from a particular technological goal to a research category inclusive of all types of research and technologies that deal with the special properties of matter which occur below the given size threshold."