Encyclopedia Nanotech

Interdisciplinary nanotechnology requires thoroughly defined and re-defined terms. This encyclopedia serves the function of defining terms and then expanding upon how these words are used in nanotechnology. Click the word to view its encyclopedia entry. To see more words, click on a letter below to see the words that begin with that letter.

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Electron Beam
A stream of electrons moving in the same direction at the same speed.

Electron Beam Lithography (EBL)
A method of fabricating sub-micron and nanoscale features by exposing electrically sensitive surfaces to an electron beam.

Electron Transport Chain
Biomolecular machinery present in prokaryotic membranes and eukaryotic mitochnodria that couples the flow of electrons to proton pumps in order to convert energy from sugar to ATP.

Energy Conversion
Changing energy from one form to another.

Entanglement
From quantum mechanics, entanglement is a relationship between two systems in which they exist in more than one state simultaneously (by superposition), and the state of one system determines the state of the other.

Entropy
A measure of the disorder of a closed system. The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy (and disorder) increases as time moves forward.