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24 sectionsContents
- Origins
- Fundamental concepts
- Larger to smaller: a materials perspective
- Simple to complex: a molecular perspective
- Molecular nanotechnology: a long-term view
- Research
- Nanomaterials
- Bottom-up approaches
- Top-down approaches
- Functional approaches
- Biomimetic approaches
- Speculative
- Dimensionality in nanomaterials
- Tools and techniques
- Scanning microscopes
- Lithography
- Bottom-up
- Applications
- Implications
- Health and environmental concerns
- Regulation
- See also
- References
- External links
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Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers (nm). At this scale, commonly known as the nanoscale, surface area and quantum mechanical effects become important in describing properties of matter. This definition of nanotechnology includes all types of research and technologies that deal with these special properties. It is common to see the plural form "nanotechnologies" as well as "nanoscale technologies" to refer to research and applications whose common trait is scale. An earlier understanding of nanotechnology referred to the particular technological goal of precisely manipulating atoms and molecules for fabricating macroscale products, now referred to as molecular nanotechnology.