Nanotechnologies – Nomenclature
1. Nanomaterials
a) Nanopowder materials, nanoparticles, quantum dots, and nanofibres
b) Composite materials containing nanoparticles
c) Materials with carbon nanotubes or fullerenes
d) Thin layers, nanolayers, and nanocoatings
e) Nanostructural metals and alloys
f) Nanoceramics
g) Polymer nanocomposites and polymer nanomaterials
2. Nanotechnology for the storage and transmission of information, micro- and nanoelectronics
a) Nanoelectronics, materials and equipment
b) Photonics
c) Optic materials, structures and equipment
d) Magnetic materials and equipment, spintronics
e) Organic photonics and bioelectronics
f) MEMS, NEMS
3. Nanobiotechnology and nanomedicine
a) Encapsulating of drugs
b) Targeted transport of medicine
c) Tissue engineering
d) Biocompatible and bio-analogical materials and layers
e) Molecular analysis and DNA analysis
f) Biological-inorganic interface and hybrids
g) Diagnostics and molecular recognition
4. Nanotechnology for applications in sensors
a) Sensors utilising nanomaterials
b) Biomolecular sensors
5. Nanotechnology in the (electric) chemical processing technologies
a) Filtration, membranes, molecular sieves, and zeolites
b) Catalysis or electrodes with nanostructural surfaces
c) Chemical synthesis, supramolecular chemistry
6. Long-term research with the wide spectrum of applications
a) Self-assembly
b) Quantum physics, quantum phenomena in nanosizes, and nanophysics
c) Nano- and mesoscopic systems
d) Chemical materials and processes - nanochemistry
e) Ultra-precise engineering
7. Instruments and facilities, research and applications of technologies
a) Analytical instruments, methods, techniques, and research
b) Manufacture (preparation) of nanopowders (nanoparticles) and their processing
c) Facilities and methods for the creation of layers and coatings
d) Facilities and methods for the creation of objects (patterning, ECAP, fibre fabrication, etc.)
e) Ultra-precise machining and nanometrology
8. Health, ecological, ethical, social and other aspects of nanotechnologies
a) Toxicity of nanoparticles
b) Environmental aspects
c) Social and ethical aspects
d) Standardisation
e) Patenting
f) Roadmaps and foresight
g) Popularisation of nanotechnologies
h) Trade in nanoproducts