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nanotechnology

Also known as nanotech, nanotechnology engineering

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175,303 papers

Impact of nanotechnology on drug delivery.ReviewACS nano · 2009Farokhzad OC, Langer RDOI: 10.1021/nn900002m
The History of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: From Chemical-Physical Applications to Nanomedicine.ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Bayda S, Adeel M, Tuccinardi T et al.DOI: 10.3390/molecules25010112
Nanotechnology-Driven Cell-Based Therapies in Regenerative Medicine.ReviewThe AAPS journal · 2022Alzate-Correa D, Lawrence WR, Salazar-Puerta A et al.DOI: 10.1208/s12248-022-00692-3
Encapsulins: Nanotechnology's future in a shell.ReviewAdvances in applied microbiology · 2023Quinton AR, McDowell HB, Hoiczyk EDOI: 10.1016/bs.aambs.2023.09.001
Nanotechnology Approaches in Chronic Wound Healing.ReviewAdvances in wound care · 2021Blanco-Fernandez B, Castaño O, Mateos-Timoneda MÁ et al.DOI: 10.1089/wound.2019.1094
Nanotechnology development in surgical applications: recent trends and developments.ReviewEuropean journal of medical research · 2023Abaszadeh F, Ashoub MH, Khajouie G et al.DOI: 10.1186/s40001-023-01429-4
Nanotechnology Reprogramming Metabolism for Enhanced Tumor Immunotherapy.ReviewACS nano · 2024Zhou Y, Yuan J, Xu K et al.DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c11260
Nanotechnology for CAR T cells and tumour-infiltrating lymphocyte therapies.ReviewNature nanotechnology · 2025Lafuente-Gómez N, Kang S, Mooney DJDOI: 10.1038/s41565-025-02008-w

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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
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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.