Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology

Of or pertaining to the manipulation of matter on an atomic or molecular scale. More specifically, it is the science and technology of matter manipulation from 1 to 100 nanometers.

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Protein design, protein engineering

Physics; Nanotechnology

The design and construction of new proteins; an enabling technology for nanotechnology.

Protein folding

Physics; Nanotechnology

The process by which proteins acquire their functional, preordained, three-dimensional structure after they emerge, as linear polymers of amino acids, from the ribosome.

Proteomics refers to the analysis of the expression, localizations, functions, and interactions of proteomes. The term proteome refers to all the proteins expressed by a genome, and thus proteomics ...

Quantum

Physics; Nanotechnology

Describes a system of particles in terms of a wave function defined over the configuration of particles having distinct locations is implicit in the potential energy function that determines the wave ...

Smart materials

Physics; Nanotechnology

Here, materials and products capable of relatively complex behaviour due to the incorporation of nanocomputers and nanomachines. Also used for products having some ability to respond to the ...

Smartdust

Physics; Nanotechnology

Also "Smartdust Motes" "...tiny, bottle-cap-shaped micro-machines fitted with wireless communication devices - that measure light and temperature . When clustered together, they automatically create ...

Space fountain

Physics; Nanotechnology

A vertical stream of magnetically accelerated pellets reaching out into space, where a station held aloft by its momentum reverses the direction and directs it towards a receiver on the ground. ...