List of nanotechnology topics

For a gentler introduction to nanotechnology, see List of basic nanotechnology topics

This is a hierarchical list of (all) topics related to nanotechnology. Items marked with an asterisk (*) appear more than once in the list.

General

Vicki Colvin Director for the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology, Rice University
Norio Taniguchi - coined the term "nanotechnology"
Richard Feynman - gave the first mention of some of the distinguishing concepts in a 1959 talk
Eric Drexler - was the first to theorise about nanotechnology in depth and popularised the subject
Robert Freitas - nanomedicine theorist
Ralph Merkle - nanotechnology theorist
Sumio Iijima - discoverer of nanotubes
Richard Smalley - co-discoverer of buckminsterfullerene
Harry Kroto - co-discoverer of buckminsterfullerene
Erwin Müller - invented the field ion microscope, and the atom probe.
Gerd Binnig - co-inventor of the scanning tunneling microscope
Heinrich Rohrer - co-inventor of the scanning tunneling microscope
Chris Phoenix - co-founder of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology
Mike Treder - co-founder of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology
Phaedon Avouris - first electronic devices made out of carbon nanotubes
Akhlesh Lakhtakia - conceptualized sculptured thin films
Alex Zettl - Built the first molecular motor based on carbon nanotubes
Andre Geim - Discoverer of 2-D carbon film called graphene

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