21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act 

 

Acrylation 

 

Acticoat

 

Active Targeted Drug Delivery

 

Aliphatic

 

Alliance for Nanohealth (ANH) 

 

Alliance for Nanomedical Technologies

 

Alpha methyl tryptophan (AMT)

 

Alzheimer's Disease

 

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

 

Amidization

 

Amorphous

 

Amphiphile 

 

Amphiphilic

 

Analgesia

 

Angiogenesis 

 

Antigen

 

Apparent Permeability

 

Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) 

 

Apoptosis

 

Aptamers

 

Arc Discharge 

 

Articular Cartilage 

 

Artificial Intelligence

 

Association Constant K 

 

Astrocytes

 

Atom Relay Switch

 

Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) 

 

Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) 

 

Atomic Layer Epitaxy 

 

Atomically Precise Manufacturing (APM)

 

Autologous replacement therapy 

 

Ballistic Conduction 

 

Basement Membrane 

 

Bending Force, F

 

b-pleated Sheets  

 

Binding Affinity 

 

Bioactivation

 

Biocavity Laser Chip

 

Biocompatibility

 

Biocomposite 

 

Bioengineering Nanotechnology Initiative

 

Biomimicry

 

Biomimetic 

 

Bionanoscience

 

Bionanotechnology

 

BioNEMS

 

Blood-brain barrier (BBB)

 

Bottom-Up Approach

 

Brachytherapy

 

Bradykinesia

 

Buckysomes

 

Burst Effect

 

Campus Biometropolis

 

Carbon Nanofiber

 

Carbon Nanotube 

 

Caspase

 

Catalase

 

Cell Culture 

 

Cellularization . 

 

Center for Environmental Implication of Nanotechnology (CEINT)

 

Ceramic

 

Cetuximab (Erbitux) 

 

Chemical Nanocomputer

 

Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) 

 

Chiral Vector 

 

Chitosan 

 

Chromallocytes

 

Circulatory System 

 

Class 977

 

Click Chemistry 

 

Clottocytes

 

Cluster Science 

 

Coercivity 

 

Coherent Light

 

Collagen 

 

Colloids 

 

Composite Nanodevice (CND) 

 

Computed Tomography (CT) 

 

Convection Enhanced Delivery (CED)  

 

Convergent Synthesis 

 

Covalent Bond

 

Critical Micelle Concentration (CMC)

 

Crystallinity

 

Cytomorphometry

 

Debye Length 

 

Dendrimer 

 

Density of States (DOS)

 

Dermis 

 

Desorption 

 

Deterministic nanotechnology 

 

Diffraction Limit

 

Dissociation Constant, Kd

 

Divergent Synthesis 

 

DNA Computing

 

DNA Origami

 

Donnan Potential

 

Down's Syndrome

 

Doxorubicin 

 

Drug Delivery 

 

Ductile

 

Electro-blowing

 

Electrohydrodynamic atomization (EHDA) 

 

Electronegativity

 

Electronic Nanocomputer

 

Electrospinning 

 

Electrospraying 

 

Elliptivity, e 

 

Embryoid Body 

 

Encapsulation 

 

Endoscopy

 

Enhanced Permeability and Retention Effect (EPR)

 

Endocytosis

 

Epidermis 

 

Epitope

 

Ester Product

 

Esterification 

 

Estrogen Response Element (ERE)

 

Euronanomed

 

European Technology Platform (ETP) in Nanomedicine

 

Excitotoxicity

 

Exfoliation 

 

Ex Vivo

 

Failure Analysis 

 

Fibroin 

 

Fowler Process 

 

Fullerene 

 

Fullerenol

 

Functionalized Fullerenes

Gain Medium

 

Gelatin 

 

Gelation 

 

GEM⁴  

 

Glioma

 

Glomerulus

 

Glucose Consumption Rate (GCR)

 

"Golden" Carbon Nanotubes (GNTs)

 

Gp120 Viral Glycoprotein

 

Hamiltonian Path

 

Hanging Drop Cell Culture

 

Hardness 

 

Hemostasis  

 

Hirsh-Bingel Chemistry

 

Hooke's Law

 

Hyaluronic Acid 

 

Hybridoma 

 

Hydroxyapatite (HA) 

 

Hyperlens

 

Hyperthermia

 

Hypoxia

 

Idiopathic

 

Immunoconjugates

 

Implant 

 

Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN)

 

Integrins 

 

International Council on Nanotechnology (ICON)

 

Intracellular Nanosurgery

 

Intravenous Injection

 

Ion Beam-Assisted Deposition (IBAD)

 

Ion Gelification

 

Ionization (laser)

 

In situ

 

Intrabiliary Infusion

 

IV Curve

 

Kanzius RF Therapy

 

Kaplan-Meier Survival Curve 

 

Keratinocyte 

 

Kinesin

 

Kirby-Bauer Antibiotic Testing (KB Test)

 

Krafft Temperature

 

Laser 

 

Laser Ablation 

 

Laser-assisted Nanosuturing 

 

Laser Doppler Vibrometer (LDV)  

 

Laser Nanosurgery  

 

Layer-by-layer (LbL) Assembly 

 

Ligaments 

 

Ligand

 

Liposome 

 

Localized Injection

 

Lower Critical Solution Temperature (LCST) 

 

Lymphoscintigraphy

 

Macrophage 

 

Magnetic Fluid-loaded Liposome (MFL)

 

Magnetic Hysteresis

 

Magnetism-Engineered Iron Oxide (MEIO) Nanoparticles

 

Matrigel^TM

 

Maxwell's Demon 

 

Mechanical Nanocomputer

 

Metal Chelators

 

Metalloceramics

 

Methotrexate

 

Micelle 

 

Microarray

 

Microbivores

 

Microfluidics

 

Microglia  

 

Micrometastases

 

Micropore 

 

Mitochondria

 

Molecular Beam Epitaxy

 

Molecular Planetary Gear

 

Molecular Sentinels (MS)

 

Molecular Shuttle Switch 

 

Monoclonal Antibodies

 

Moore's Law

 

Multi-valent

 

Nano

 

Nano-1

 

Nano2Life

 

Nanoaxotomy

 

Nanobiochips

 

NanobioFab

 

Nanobiosensor

 

Nanobiotechnology  

 

Nanobot

 

Nanocoating 

 

Nanocomputer 

 

Nanocrystals 

 

Nanodiagnostics 

 

Nanofibers

 

Nanofluidics 

 

Nanogear 

 

Nanogel

 

Nanohealth

 

Nanolaser Scanning Confocal Spectroscopy

 

Nanologue 

 

Nanomaterial 

 

Nanomedicine

 

Nanometer (nm) 

 

Nanomotor

 

Nanoneedle

 

Nanonephrology

 

Nanoneural Interface

 

Nanoparticle 

 

Nanopolymer Scaffolds

 

Nanopore

 

Nanoprecipitation  

 

Nanoproteomics

 

Nanopulse

 

Nanorobot

 

Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology Subcommittee of the NSTC

 

Nanoscience 

 

Nanoscopic Scale 

 

Nanostructuring 

 

Nanoshell 

 

Nanosphere 

 

Nanotechnology 

 

Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory (NCL)

 

Nanotechnology Engagement Group (NEG)

 

Nanotechnology Victoria, Ltd 

 

Nanotechnology Working Group of the EPA

 

Nanotool 

 

Nanotree

 

Nanotube-Based Nanomotor

 

Nanowire-Based Nanomotor

 

National Enabling Technologies Strategy

 

National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI)

 

National Nanotechnology Strategy Task Force (NNST) 

 

NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer 

 

Nephron

 

Nitric Oxide

 

Non-Covalent Bond

 

Nucleic Acid Nanotechnology 

Neuroprotection

 

Neurodegenerative Disease        

 

Neuroscience 

 

nProber

 

Nucleic Acid-Based Nanomotor

 

Nude Mice

 

OECD's Working Party on Nanotechnology 

 

Optical Lithography

 

Optomechanical Energy Conversion

 

Osteoconductivity

 

Outmessaging

 

Output Coupler

 

Oxidative Stress

 

Parallel Assembly 

 

Parkinson's Disease 

 

Parchment Model 

 

Pascal 

 

Passive Targeted Drug Delivery

 

PC12 Cell

 

PCR Amplicon

 

Pegylation

 

Peptides

 

Perfluorocarbon (PFC) 

 

P-glycoprotein (P-gp)

 

Phagocytes

 

Phagocytosis

 

Phase separation 

 

Phonons 

 

Phosphodiester Bond

 

Pi Electron Stacking  

 

Plasmonic Nanobubbles

 

Pluripotency 

 

Pluronic P85

 

Poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) 

 

Polychelating Amphiphilic Polymers (PAPs)

 

Polydispersity Index (PDI)

 

Polyion complex micelles

 

Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA)

 

Polymeric Nanofiber

 

Polymersome 

 

Polysorbate 80 (Tween 80) 

 

Porosity 

 

Proboscis

 

Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN)

 

Proposal for Regulatory Reform of Nanomaterials

 

Protamine

 

Protein Adsorption

 

Pulse Intensity

 

Pumping (Laser)

 

Qubits

 

Quantitative Nanoproteomics (QNanoPX)

 

Quantum Nanocomputer

 

Quantum Plasma Oscillation

 

Quantum Size Effect

 

Quantum Tunneling

 

Raman Shift

 

Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS)

 

Redox

 

Refined Molecular Relay

 

Regenerative Medicine and Nanomedicine Initiative (RMNI)

 

Renal Tubule

 

Resonant Frequency

 

Respirocytes

 

Responsible Nano Code

 

Restenosis

 

Reticuloendothelial system (RES)

 

RGD Peptide

 

Ribozymes

 

Roadmap on Nanomedicine Initiative

 

Rod Logic

 

Rose Bengal

 

Rotaxane

 

Russian Doll Model

 

Sanger Method 

 

Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM)  

 

Scatchard Equation

 

 

Schiff Base Linkage

 

Sciatic Nerve  

 

Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR)

 

SELEX 

 

Self-assembly 

 

Sepsis

 

Singularity Theory

 

Small Molecules 

 

Solid-Phase Peptide Synthesis  

 

Solvent Displacement Method 

 

Specific Absorption Rate (SAR)

 

Spin-Lattice Relaxation Time, T1

 

St. Louis Institute of Nanomedicine Working Group

 

Starburst ® PAMAM dendrimers 

 

Stochastic Nanotechnology 

 

Strain 

 

Stress 

 

Structure Factor

 

SU-8

 

Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide (SPIO) Nanoparticles

 

Superparamagnetism 

 

Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)

 

Surface Plasmon

 

Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) 

 

Surface Plasmons

 

Surfactant

 

Surgery

 

Suture

 

Synapses

 

Targeted Drug Delivery

 

Taylor cone 

 

Theranostics

 

Thermal Spraying

 

Tissue Culture

 

Top-Down Approach

 

Transcendent Man

 

Transcytosis

 

Transfection 

 

Transferrin    

 

Translocation Event Signal 

 

Tropoelastin 

 

Tumor-Associated Antigen

 

Tumor-Specific Antigen

 

Ultrafast Laser Nanosurgery 

 

Ultramicroscope

 

Ultra-Web® 

 

University of Houston Nanofabrication Facility

 

U.S. Food and Drug Administration Nanotechnology Task Force 

 

van der Waals Attractive Forces

 

Van Hove Singularities

 

Watson-Crick Base-Pairing 

 

Wave Interference

 

Wet Chemistry Synthesis

 

Whole-Genome Diagnostics