Probably the two most useful ways of organizing the nanotech world are through the technology, i.e. what is being made, and through applications, i.e. where these products will find a home. For our concise introduction, we use a mixture:
- Tools
- Materials
- Devices
- Techniques for Building Nanoscale Structures
- Electronics and Information Technology
- Life Sciences
- Power and Processes and the Environment
Any attempt to categorize the world in such a crude way is necessarily imperfect and there will always be certain technologies that span groups or do not fit neatly into one or the other. Furthermore, the multidisciplinary nature of nanotechnology means that is difficult to separate advances in, for example, tools, from their effect on life sciences.
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