Nanomaterials, the Glossary
Nanomaterials describe, in principle, chemical substances or materials of which a single unit is sized (in at least one dimension) between 1 and 100 nm (the usual definition of nanoscale).[1]
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Acid mine drainage
Acid mine drainage, acid and metalliferous drainage (AMD), or acid rock drainage (ARD) is the outflow of acidic water from metal mines and coal mines.
See Nanomaterials and Acid mine drainage
Acoustical engineering
Acoustical engineering (also known as acoustic engineering) is the branch of engineering dealing with sound and vibration.
See Nanomaterials and Acoustical engineering
Administrative controls
Administrative controls are training, procedure, policy, or shift designs that lessen the threat of a hazard to an individual.
See Nanomaterials and Administrative controls
Air pollution
Air pollution is the contamination of air due to the presence of substances called pollutants in the atmosphere that are harmful to the health of humans and other living beings, or cause damage to the climate or to materials.
See Nanomaterials and Air pollution
Allotropes of carbon
Carbon is capable of forming many allotropes (structurally different forms of the same element) due to its valency.
See Nanomaterials and Allotropes of carbon
Antibiotic
An antibiotic is a type of antimicrobial substance active against bacteria.
See Nanomaterials and Antibiotic
Antimicrobial
An antimicrobial is an agent that kills microorganisms (microbicide) or stops their growth (bacteriostatic agent).
See Nanomaterials and Antimicrobial
Artificial enzyme
See also artificial metalloenzyme. An artificial enzyme is a synthetic organic molecule or ion that recreates one or more functions of an enzyme.
See Nanomaterials and Artificial enzyme
Asbestos
Asbestos is a naturally occurring fibrous silicate mineral.
See Nanomaterials and Asbestos
Atom
Atoms are the basic particles of the chemical elements.
Atomic layer deposition
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a thin-film deposition technique based on the sequential use of a gas-phase chemical process; it is a subclass of chemical vapour deposition.
See Nanomaterials and Atomic layer deposition
Bacteria
Bacteria (bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell.
See Nanomaterials and Bacteria
Beak
The beak, bill, or rostrum is an external anatomical structure found mostly in birds, but also in turtles, non-avian dinosaurs and a few mammals.
Best practice
A best practice is a method or technique that has been generally accepted as superior to alternatives because it tends to produce superior results.
See Nanomaterials and Best practice
Biomass
Biomass is a term used in several contexts: in the context of ecology it means living organisms, and in the context of bioenergy it means matter from recently living (but now dead) organisms.
Biomedicine
Biomedicine (also referred to as Western medicine, mainstream medicine or conventional medicine)"." NCI Dictionary of Cancer Medicine.
See Nanomaterials and Biomedicine
Biosafety cabinet
A biosafety cabinet (BSC)—also called a biological safety cabinet or microbiological safety cabinet—is an enclosed, ventilated laboratory workspace for safely working with materials contaminated with (or potentially contaminated with) pathogens requiring a defined biosafety level.
See Nanomaterials and Biosafety cabinet
Biosensor
A biosensor is an analytical device, used for the detection of a chemical substance, that combines a biological component with a physicochemical detector.
See Nanomaterials and Biosensor
Blood
Blood is a body fluid in the circulatory system of humans and other vertebrates that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells, and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.
Bone
A bone is a rigid organ that constitutes part of the skeleton in most vertebrate animals.
BSI Group
The British Standards Institution (BSI) is the national standards body of the United Kingdom.
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Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist.
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Buckminsterfullerene
Buckminsterfullerene is a type of fullerene with the formula C60.
See Nanomaterials and Buckminsterfullerene
Cancer
Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.
Capsid
A capsid is the protein shell of a virus, enclosing its genetic material.
Carbon
Carbon is a chemical element; it has symbol C and atomic number 6.
Carbon black
Carbon black (with subtypes acetylene black, channel black, furnace black, lamp black and thermal black) is a material produced by the incomplete combustion of coal tar, vegetable matter, or petroleum products, including fuel oil, fluid catalytic cracking tar, and ethylene cracking in a limited supply of air.
See Nanomaterials and Carbon black
Carbon nanofiber
Carbon nanofibers (CNFs), vapor grown carbon fibers (VGCFs), or vapor grown carbon nanofibers (VGCNFs) are cylindrical nanostructures with graphene layers arranged as stacked cones, cups or plates.
See Nanomaterials and Carbon nanofiber
Carbon nanotube
A scanning tunneling microscopy image of a single-walled carbon nanotube Rotating single-walled zigzag carbon nanotube A carbon nanotube (CNT) is a tube made of carbon with a diameter in the nanometre range (nanoscale).
See Nanomaterials and Carbon nanotube
Catalysis
Catalysis is the increase in rate of a chemical reaction due to an added substance known as a catalyst.
See Nanomaterials and Catalysis
Cement
A cement is a binder, a chemical substance used for construction that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together.
Ceramic
A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature.
Claw
A claw is a curved, pointed appendage found at the end of a toe or finger in most amniotes (mammals, reptiles, birds).
Clay
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al2Si2O5(OH)4).
Colloid
A colloid is a mixture in which one substance consisting of microscopically dispersed insoluble particles is suspended throughout another substance.
Colloid vibration current
Colloid vibration current is an electroacoustic phenomenon that arises when ultrasound propagates through a fluid that contains ions and either solid particles or emulsion droplets.
See Nanomaterials and Colloid vibration current
Colloidal crystal
A colloidal crystal is an ordered array of colloidal particles and fine grained materials analogous to a standard crystal whose repeating subunits are atoms or molecules.
See Nanomaterials and Colloidal crystal
Colloidal gold
Colloidal gold is a sol or colloidal suspension of nanoparticles of gold in a fluid, usually water.
See Nanomaterials and Colloidal gold
Composite material
A composite material (also called a composition material or shortened to composite, which is the common name) is a material which is produced from two or more constituent materials.
See Nanomaterials and Composite material
Copper
Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.
Copper nanoparticle
A copper nanoparticle is a copper based particle 1 to 100 nm in size.
See Nanomaterials and Copper nanoparticle
Coral
Corals are colonial marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria.
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York.
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Cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.
Crystallite
A crystallite is a small or even microscopic crystal which forms, for example, during the cooling of many materials.
See Nanomaterials and Crystallite
Crystallographic defect
A crystallographic defect is an interruption of the regular patterns of arrangement of atoms or molecules in crystalline solids.
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Density
Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is a substance's mass per unit of volume.
Density functional theory
Density functional theory (DFT) is a computational quantum mechanical modelling method used in physics, chemistry and materials science to investigate the electronic structure (or nuclear structure) (principally the ground state) of many-body systems, in particular atoms, molecules, and the condensed phases.
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Diffusion
Diffusion is the net movement of anything (for example, atoms, ions, molecules, energy) generally from a region of higher concentration to a region of lower concentration.
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Directional freezing
Directional freezing freezes from only one direction.
See Nanomaterials and Directional freezing
Dispersity
In chemistry, the dispersity is a measure of the heterogeneity of sizes of molecules or particles in a mixture.
See Nanomaterials and Dispersity
Drug delivery
Drug delivery refers to approaches, formulations, manufacturing techniques, storage systems, and technologies involved in transporting a pharmaceutical compound to its target site to achieve a desired therapeutic effect.
See Nanomaterials and Drug delivery
Ductility
Ductility refers to the ability of a material to sustain significant plastic deformation before fracture.
See Nanomaterials and Ductility
Dust explosion
A dust explosion is the rapid combustion of fine particles suspended in the air within an enclosed location.
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Earth's crust
Earth's crust is its thick outer shell of rock, referring to less than one percent of the planet's radius and volume.
See Nanomaterials and Earth's crust
Electron microscope
An electron microscope is a microscope that uses a beam of electrons as a source of illumination.
See Nanomaterials and Electron microscope
Electrophoretic light scattering
Electrophoretic light scattering (also known as laser Doppler electrophoresis and phase analysis light scattering) is based on dynamic light scattering.
See Nanomaterials and Electrophoretic light scattering
Elemental analysis
Elemental analysis is a process where a sample of some material (e.g., soil, waste or drinking water, bodily fluids, minerals, chemical compounds) is analyzed for its elemental and sometimes isotopic composition.
See Nanomaterials and Elemental analysis
Engineering controls
Engineering controls are strategies designed to protect workers from hazardous conditions by placing a barrier between the worker and the hazard or by removing a hazardous substance through air ventilation.
See Nanomaterials and Engineering controls
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) is a decentralised agency of the European Union with the task of collecting, analysing and disseminating relevant information that can serve the needs of businesses, governments and specialists involved in safety and health at work.
See Nanomaterials and European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
European Commission
The European Commission (EC) is the primary executive arm of the European Union (EU).
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European Union Observatory for Nanomaterials
The European Union Observatory for Nanomaterials (EUON) is an initiative that aims to increase the transparency and availability of information on nanomaterials to the general public.
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Exposure assessment
Exposure assessment is a branch of environmental science and occupational hygiene that focuses on the processes that take place at the interface between the environment containing the contaminant of interest and the organism being considered.
See Nanomaterials and Exposure assessment
Feather
Feathers are epidermal growths that form a distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on both avian (bird) and some non-avian dinosaurs and other archosaurs.
Fibrosis
Fibrosis, also known as fibrotic scarring, is a pathological wound healing in which connective tissue replaces normal parenchymal tissue to the extent that it goes unchecked, leading to considerable tissue remodelling and the formation of permanent scar tissue.
See Nanomaterials and Fibrosis
Filtration
Filtration is a physical separation process that separates solid matter and fluid from a mixture using a filter medium that has a complex structure through which only the fluid can pass.
See Nanomaterials and Filtration
Flocculation
In colloidal chemistry, flocculation is a process by which colloidal particles come out of suspension to sediment in the form of floc or flake, either spontaneously or due to the addition of a clarifying agent.
See Nanomaterials and Flocculation
Fluorescence
Fluorescence is one of two kinds of emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light or other electromagnetic radiation.
See Nanomaterials and Fluorescence
Foraminifera
Foraminifera (Latin for "hole bearers"; informally called "forams") are single-celled organisms, members of a phylum or class of Rhizarian protists characterized by streaming granular ectoplasm for catching food and other uses; and commonly an external shell (called a "test") of diverse forms and materials.
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Force
A force is an influence that can cause an object to change its velocity, i.e., to accelerate, meaning a change in speed or direction, unless counterbalanced by other forces.
Fracture mechanics
Fracture mechanics is the field of mechanics concerned with the study of the propagation of cracks in materials.
See Nanomaterials and Fracture mechanics
Fullerene
A fullerene is an allotrope of carbon whose molecules consist of carbon atoms connected by single and double bonds so as to form a closed or partially closed mesh, with fused rings of five to seven atoms.
See Nanomaterials and Fullerene
Fume hood
A fume hood (sometimes called a fume cupboard or fume closet) is a type of local exhaust ventilation device that is designed to prevent users from being exposed to hazardous fumes, vapors and dusts.
See Nanomaterials and Fume hood
Fumed silica
Fumed silica (CAS number 112945-52-5), also known as pyrogenic silica because it is produced in a flame, consists of microscopic droplets of amorphous silica fused into branched, chainlike, three-dimensional secondary particles which then agglomerate into tertiary particles.
See Nanomaterials and Fumed silica
Gecko
Geckos are small, mostly carnivorous lizards that have a wide distribution, found on every continent except Antarctica.
Geodesic dome
A geodesic dome is a hemispherical thin-shell structure (lattice-shell) based on a geodesic polyhedron.
See Nanomaterials and Geodesic dome
Glass-ceramic
Glass-ceramics are polycrystalline materials produced through controlled crystallization of base glass, producing a fine uniform dispersion of crystals throughout the bulk material.
See Nanomaterials and Glass-ceramic
Glovebox
A glovebox (or glove box) is a sealed container that is designed to allow one to manipulate objects where a separate atmosphere is desired.
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Goggles
Goggles, or safety glasses, are forms of protective eyewear that usually enclose or protect the area surrounding the eye in order to prevent particulates, water or chemicals from striking the eyes.
Granuloma
A granuloma is an aggregation of macrophages (along with other cells) that forms in response to chronic inflammation.
See Nanomaterials and Granuloma
Graphene
Graphene is an allotrope of carbon consisting of a single layer of atoms arranged in a honeycomb nanostructure.
See Nanomaterials and Graphene
Hair
Hair is a protein filament that grows from follicles found in the dermis.
Harry Kroto
Sir Harold Walter Kroto (born Harold Walter Krotoschiner; 7 October 1939 – 30 April 2016) was an English chemist.
See Nanomaterials and Harry Kroto
Hazard elimination
Hazard elimination is a hazard control strategy based on completely removing a material or process causing a hazard.
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Hazard substitution
Hazard substitution is a hazard control strategy in which a material or process is replaced with another that is less hazardous.
See Nanomaterials and Hazard substitution
Health and Safety Executive
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is a British public body responsible for the encouragement, regulation and enforcement of workplace health, safety and welfare.
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Hierarchy of hazard controls
Hierarchy of hazard control is a system used in industry to prioritize possible interventions to minimize or eliminate exposure to hazards.
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Horn (anatomy)
A horn is a permanent pointed projection on the head of various animals that consists of a covering of keratin and other proteins surrounding a core of live bone.
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IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation
IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published bimonthly by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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Inflammation
Inflammation (from inflammatio) is part of the biological response of body tissues to harmful stimuli, such as pathogens, damaged cells, or irritants.
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Infrared
Infrared (IR; sometimes called infrared light) is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with wavelengths longer than that of visible light but shorter than microwaves.
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Inhalation exposure
Inhalation is a major route of exposure that occurs when an individual breathes in polluted air which enters the respiratory tract.
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Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance
The Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance (Institut für Arbeitsschutz der Deutschen Gesetzlichen Unfallversicherung, IFA) is a German institute located in Sankt Augustin near Bonn and is a main department of the German Social Accident Insurance.
Interface and colloid science
Interface and colloid science is an interdisciplinary intersection of branches of chemistry, physics, nanoscience and other fields dealing with colloids, heterogeneous systems consisting of a mechanical mixture of particles between 1 nm and 1000 nm dispersed in a continuous medium.
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International Organization for Standardization
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an independent, non-governmental, international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries.
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ISO/TS 80004
The ISO/TS 80004 series of standards, from the International Organization for Standardization, describe vocabulary for nanotechnology and its applications.
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James R. Heath
James R. Heath (born 1962) is an American chemist and the president and professor of Institute of Systems Biology.
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Length scale
In physics, length scale is a particular length or distance determined with the precision of at most a few orders of magnitude.
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Light
Light, visible light, or visible radiation is electromagnetic radiation that can be perceived by the human eye.
List of software for nanostructures modeling
This is a list of computer programs that are used to model nanostructures at the levels of classical mechanics and quantum mechanics.
See Nanomaterials and List of software for nanostructures modeling
Lotus effect
The lotus effect refers to self-cleaning properties that are a result of ultrahydrophobicity as exhibited by the leaves of Nelumbo, the lotus flower.
See Nanomaterials and Lotus effect
Lubricant
A lubricant (sometimes shortened to lube) is a substance that helps to reduce friction between surfaces in mutual contact, which ultimately reduces the heat generated when the surfaces move.
See Nanomaterials and Lubricant
Magnetism
Magnetism is the class of physical attributes that occur through a magnetic field, which allows objects to attract or repel each other.
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Material
A material is a substance or mixture of substances that constitutes an object.
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Materials science
Materials science is an interdisciplinary field of researching and discovering materials.
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Matter wave
Matter waves are a central part of the theory of quantum mechanics, being half of wave–particle duality.
See Nanomaterials and Matter wave
Medical glove
Medical gloves are disposable gloves used during medical examinations and procedures to help prevent cross-contamination between caregivers and patients.
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Melanoma
Melanoma is the most dangerous type of skin cancer; it develops from the melanin-producing cells known as melanocytes.
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Melting point
The melting point (or, rarely, liquefaction point) of a substance is the temperature at which it changes state from solid to liquid.
See Nanomaterials and Melting point
Membrane bioreactor
Membrane bioreactors are combinations of membrane processes like microfiltration or ultrafiltration with a biological wastewater treatment process, the activated sludge process.
See Nanomaterials and Membrane bioreactor
MERS
Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is a viral respiratory infection caused by Middle East respiratory syndrome–related coronavirus (MERS-CoV).
Metrology
Metrology is the scientific study of measurement.
See Nanomaterials and Metrology
Microelectrophoresis
Microelectrophoresis is a method of studying electrophoresis of various dispersed particles using optical microscopy.
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Microfabrication
Microfabrication is the process of fabricating miniature structures of micrometre scales and smaller.
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Milk
Milk is a white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals.
Molecular-beam epitaxy
Molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE) is an epitaxy method for thin-film deposition of single crystals.
See Nanomaterials and Molecular-beam epitaxy
Molecule
A molecule is a group of two or more atoms held together by attractive forces known as chemical bonds; depending on context, the term may or may not include ions which satisfy this criterion.
See Nanomaterials and Molecule
Morpho rhetenor
Morpho rhetenor, the Rhetenor blue morpho, is a Neotropical butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.
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Nacre
Nacre, also known as mother of pearl, is an organicinorganic composite material produced by some molluscs as an inner shell layer.
Nanocomposite
Nanocomposite is a multiphase solid material where one of the phases has one, two or three dimensions of less than 100 nanometers (nm) or structures having nano-scale repeat distances between the different phases that make up the material.
See Nanomaterials and Nanocomposite
Nanocrystalline material
A nanocrystalline (NC) material is a polycrystalline material with a crystallite size of only a few nanometers.
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Nanofiber
Nanofibers are fibers with diameters in the nanometer range (typically, between 1 nm and 1 μm).
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Nanofoam
Nanofoams are a class of nanostructured, porous materials (foams) containing a significant population of pores with diameters less than 100 nm.
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Nanomaterial-based catalyst
Nanomaterial-based catalysts are usually heterogeneous catalysts broken up into metal nanoparticles in order to enhance the catalytic process.
See Nanomaterials and Nanomaterial-based catalyst
Nanomechanics
Nanomechanics is a branch of nanoscience studying fundamental mechanical (elastic, thermal and kinetic) properties of physical systems at the nanometer scale.
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Nanomedicine
Nanomedicine is the medical application of nanotechnology.
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Nanoparticle
A nanoparticle or ultrafine particle is a particle of matter 1 to 100 nanometres (nm) in diameter.
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Nanopore
A nanopore is a pore of nanometer size.
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Nanoporous materials
Nanoporous materials consist of a regular organic or inorganic bulk phase in which a porous structure is present.
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Nanoribbon
Nanoribbon may refer to.
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Nanorod
In nanotechnology, nanorods are one morphology of nanoscale objects.
Nanostructure
A nanostructure is a structure of intermediate size between microscopic and molecular structures.
See Nanomaterials and Nanostructure
Nanostructured film
A nanostructured film is a film resulting from engineering of nanoscale features, such as dislocations, grain boundaries, defects, or twinning.
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Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers (nm).
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Nanotextured surface
A nanotextured surface (NTS) is a surface which is covered with nano-sized structures.
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Nanotopography
Nanotopography refers to specific surface features which form or are generated at the nanoscopic scale.
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Nanotube
A nanotube is a nanometer-scale hollow tube-like structure.
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Nanowire
doi-access.
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National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements
The National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP), formerly the National Committee on Radiation Protection and Measurements, and before that the Advisory Committee on X-Ray and Radium Protection (ACXRP), is a U.S. organization.
See Nanomaterials and National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is the United States federal agency responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related injury and illness.
See Nanomaterials and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Nelumbo nucifera
Nelumbo nucifera, also known as sacred lotus, Indian lotus, or simply lotus, is one of two extant species of aquatic plant in the family Nelumbonaceae.
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Occupational exposure limit
An occupational exposure limit is an upper limit on the acceptable concentration of a hazardous substance in workplace air for a particular material or class of materials.
See Nanomaterials and Occupational exposure limit
OECD
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.
OLED
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED), also known as organic electroluminescent (organic EL) diode, is a type of light-emitting diode (LED) in which the emissive electroluminescent layer is an organic compound film that emits light in response to an electric current.
Oleyl alcohol
Oleyl alcohol, or cis-9-octadecen-1-ol, is an unsaturated fatty alcohol with the molecular formula or the condensed structural formula.
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Opal
Opal is a hydrated amorphous form of silica (SiO2·nH2O); its water content may range from 3% to 21% by weight, but is usually between 6% and 10%.
Optics
Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it.
Optoelectronics
Optoelectronics (or optronics) is the study and application of electronic devices and systems that find, detect and control light, usually considered a sub-field of photonics.
See Nanomaterials and Optoelectronics
Organic solar cell
An organic solar cell (OSC) or plastic solar cell is a type of photovoltaic that uses organic electronics, a branch of electronics that deals with conductive organic polymers or small organic molecules, for light absorption and charge transport to produce electricity from sunlight by the photovoltaic effect.
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Paint
Paint is a material or mixture that, when applied to a solid material and allowed to dry, adds a film-like layer.
Paper
Paper is a thin sheet material produced by mechanically or chemically processing cellulose fibres derived from wood, rags, grasses, or other vegetable sources in water, draining the water through a fine mesh leaving the fibre evenly distributed on the surface, followed by pressing and drying.
Particle aggregation
Particle agglomeration refers to the formation of assemblages in a suspension and represents a mechanism leading to the functional destabilization of colloidal systems.
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Particle counter
A particle counter is used for monitoring and diagnosing particle contamination within specific clean media, including air, water and chemicals.
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Particle size
Particle size is a notion introduced for comparing dimensions of solid particles (flecks), liquid particles (droplets), or gaseous particles (bubbles).
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Particle-size distribution
In granulometry, the particle-size distribution (PSD) of a powder, or granular material, or particles dispersed in fluid, is a list of values or a mathematical function that defines the relative amount, typically by mass, of particles present according to size.
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Personal protective equipment
Personal protective equipment (PPE) is protective clothing, helmets, goggles, or other garments or equipment designed to protect the wearer's body from injury or infection.
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Phase (matter)
In the physical sciences, a phase is a region of material that is chemically uniform, physically distinct, and (often) mechanically separable.
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Photoinduced electron transfer
Photoinduced electron transfer (PET) is an excited state electron transfer process by which an excited electron is transferred from donor to acceptor.
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Photonic crystal
A photonic crystal is an optical nanostructure in which the refractive index changes periodically.
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Pigment
A pigment is a powder used to add color or change visual appearance.
Plasma (physics)
Plasma is one of four fundamental states of matter (the other three being solid, liquid, and gas) characterized by the presence of a significant portion of charged particles in any combination of ions or electrons.
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Polymer
A polymer is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules linked together into chains of repeating subunits.
Porosity
Porosity or void fraction is a measure of the void (i.e. "empty") spaces in a material, and is a fraction of the volume of voids over the total volume, between 0 and 1, or as a percentage between 0% and 100%.
See Nanomaterials and Porosity
Potential well
A potential well is the region surrounding a local minimum of potential energy.
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Pulmonary fibrosis
Pulmonary fibrosis is a condition in which the lungs become scarred over time.
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Pyrolytic carbon
Pyrolytic carbon is a material similar to graphite, but with some covalent bonding between its graphene sheets as a result of imperfections in its production.
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Quantum dot
Quantum dots (QDs) or semiconductor nanocrystals are semiconductor particles a few nanometres in size with optical and electronic properties that differ from those of larger particles via quantum mechanical effects.
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Quantum mechanics
Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory that describes the behavior of nature at and below the scale of atoms.
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Radon
Radon is a chemical element; it has symbol Rn and atomic number 86.
Raman spectroscopy
Raman spectroscopy (named after physicist C. V. Raman) is a spectroscopic technique typically used to determine vibrational modes of molecules, although rotational and other low-frequency modes of systems may also be observed.
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Recommended exposure limit
A recommended exposure limit (REL) is an occupational exposure limit that has been recommended by the United States National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
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Respirator
A respirator is a device designed to protect the wearer from inhaling hazardous atmospheres including lead fumes, vapours, gases and particulate matter such as dusts and airborne pathogens such as viruses.
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Rice University
Rice University, formally William Marsh Rice University, is a private research university in Houston, Texas, United States.
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Richard Smalley
Richard Errett Smalley (June 6, 1943 – October 28, 2005) was an American chemist who was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy at Rice University.
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Robert Curl
Robert Floyd Curl Jr. (August 23, 1933 – July 3, 2022) was an American chemist who was Pitzer–Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences and professor of chemistry at Rice University.
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Safety culture
Safety culture is the element of organizational culture which is concerned with the maintenance of safety and compliance with safety standards.
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Scattering
In physics, scattering is a wide range of physical processes where moving particles or radiation of some form, such as light or sound, are forced to deviate from a straight trajectory by localized non-uniformities (including particles and radiation) in the medium through which they pass.
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Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
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Semiconductor
A semiconductor is a material that has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass.
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Silica gel
Silica gel is an amorphous and porous form of silicon dioxide (silica), consisting of an irregular tridimensional framework of alternating silicon and oxygen atoms with nanometer-scale voids and pores.
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Silicon dioxide
Silicon dioxide, also known as silica, is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula, commonly found in nature as quartz.
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Silicon nanotube
Silicon nanotubes are nanoparticles which create a tube-like structure from silicon atoms.
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Single-layer materials
In materials science, the term single-layer materials or 2D materials refers to crystalline solids consisting of a single layer of atoms.
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Sintering
Sintering or frittage is the process of compacting and forming a solid mass of material by pressure or heat without melting it to the point of liquefaction.
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Skin
Skin is the layer of usually soft, flexible outer tissue covering the body of a vertebrate animal, with three main functions: protection, regulation, and sensation.
Slurry
A slurry is a mixture of denser solids suspended in liquid, usually water.
Solubility
In chemistry, solubility is the ability of a substance, the solute, to form a solution with another substance, the solvent.
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Solvent
A solvent (from the Latin solvō, "loosen, untie, solve") is a substance that dissolves a solute, resulting in a solution.
Sunscreen
Sunscreen, also known as sunblock, sun lotion or sun cream, is a photoprotective topical product for the skin that helps protect against sunburn and prevent skin cancer.
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Superconductivity
Superconductivity is a set of physical properties observed in certain materials where electrical resistance vanishes and magnetic fields are expelled from the material.
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Superparamagnetism
Superparamagnetism is a form of magnetism which appears in small ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic nanoparticles.
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Surface charge
A surface charge is an electric charge present on a two-dimensional surface.
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Surface modification
Surface modification is the act of modifying the surface of a material by bringing physical, chemical or biological characteristics different from the ones originally found on the surface of a material.
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Surface plasmon resonance
Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) is a phenomenon that occurs where electrons in a thin metal sheet become excited by light that is directed to the sheet with a particular angle of incidence, and then travel parallel to the sheet.
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Suspension (chemistry)
In chemistry, a suspension is a heterogeneous mixture of a fluid that contains solid particles sufficiently large for sedimentation.
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Tarantula
Tarantulas comprise a group of large and often hairy spiders of the family Theraphosidae.
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Thin film
A thin film is a layer of material ranging from fractions of a nanometer (monolayer) to several micrometers in thickness.
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Tissue engineering
Tissue engineering is a biomedical engineering discipline that uses a combination of cells, engineering, materials methods, and suitable biochemical and physicochemical factors to restore, maintain, improve, or replace different types of biological tissues.
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Titanium dioxide
Titanium dioxide, also known as titanium(IV) oxide or titania, is the inorganic compound derived from titanium with the chemical formula.
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Titanium dioxide nanoparticle
Titanium dioxide nanoparticles, also called ultrafine titanium dioxide or nanocrystalline titanium dioxide or microcrystalline titanium dioxide, are particles of titanium dioxide with diameters less than 100 nm.
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Tropaeolum
Tropaeolum, commonly known as nasturtium (literally "nose-twister" or "nose-tweaker"), is a genus of roughly 80 species of annual and perennial herbaceous flowering plants.
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Ultrafine particle
Ultrafine particles (UFPs) are particulate matter of nanoscale size (less than 0.1 μm or 100 nm in diameter).
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Ultramicroscope
An ultramicroscope is a microscope with a system that lights the object in a way that allows viewing of tiny particles via light scattering, and not light reflection or absorption.
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Ultrasound
Ultrasound is sound with frequencies greater than 20 kilohertz.
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Ultrasound attenuation spectroscopy
Ultrasound attenuation spectroscopy is a method for characterizing properties of fluids and dispersed particles.
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Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths of 10–400 nanometers, shorter than that of visible light, but longer than X-rays.
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Van der Waals force
In molecular physics and chemistry, the van der Waals force (sometimes van de Waals' force) is a distance-dependent interaction between atoms or molecules.
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Vented balance safety enclosure
Vented balance safety enclosures are used in pharmaceutical, chemical, biological, and toxicological laboratories to provide maximum containment for weighing operations in weighing scales.
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Water filter
A water filter removes impurities by lowering contamination of water using a fine physical barrier, a chemical process, or a biological process.
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Wavelength
In physics and mathematics, wavelength or spatial period of a wave or periodic function is the distance over which the wave's shape repeats.
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White coat
A white coat, also known as a laboratory coat or lab coat, is a knee-length overcoat or smock worn by professionals in the medical field or by those involved in laboratory work.
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Zeolite
Zeolite is a family of several microporous, crystalline aluminosilicate materials commonly used as commercial adsorbents and catalysts.
Zeta potential
Zeta potential is the electrical potential at the slipping plane.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanomaterials
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