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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Photolithographic Mask
A template used in photolithography that allows selective exposure of a photosensitive surface.

Photolithography
Writing or creating patterns by means of light.

Photonic Band Gap (PBG)
An energy range (and corresponding wavelength range) for which a material neither absorbs light nor allows light propagation.

Polymer
A molecule consisting of many smaller sub-units covalently linked together.

Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
A chemical reaction that uses the polymerase enzyme to carry out in vitro replication of DNA.

Potential Energy
Energy stored in an object due to its position or internal structure.

Proteomics
The study of the full expression of proteins in an organism.