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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Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) Film
A film of organic material (often surfactant molecules) assembled at the liquid-gas interface and subsequently transferred onto a solid substrate.

Lithography
A process for creating chemical patterns on a surface.

London Dispersion Forces
An attractive force between atoms or molecules caused by the numerous transient dipoles resulting from electronic superposition.

Lowest Unocupied Molecular Orbital (LUMO)
The lowest energy molecular orbital of an atom or molecule that does not contain an electron.