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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Far-Field Diffraction Limit
A physical limit to how focused a beam of light can be.

Fractal
A mathematical construct that has a fractional dimension.

Fullerene
A class of cage-like carbon compounds composed of fused, pentagonal and/or hexagonal sp² carbon rings.

Functional Group
Part of a molecule (group of atoms) with the potential to take part in a chemical reaction or interaction.