Citation: Chinchilla-Rodríguez Z, Ocaña-Rosa K and Vargas-Quesada B (2016) How to Combine Research Guarantor and Collaboration Patterns to Measure Scientific Performance of Countries in Scientific Fields: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology as a Case Study. Front. Res. Metr. Anal. 1:2. doi: 10.3389/frma.2016.00002 how to combine research guarantor and collaboration Patterns to Measure scientific Per...

Nanoscience and nanotechnology are critically important in the 21 century (National Research Council, 2006; National Science and Technology Council, 2007). This is the field in which major sciences are joining, blending, and integrating (Battelle Memorial Institute & Foresight Nanotech Institute, 2007; Goodsell, 2004). The prospect of nanoscience and nanotechnology in tomorrow’s science and tec...

Hot embossing of micro-lens array on bulk metallic glass C.T. Pan a,∗, T.T. Wu a, M.F. Chen a, Y.C. Chang b, C.J. Lee b, J.C. Huang b a Department of Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering, and Center for Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaoshiung 804, Taiwan, ROC b Institute of Materials Science & Engineering, Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Nati...

In the last few years, nanoscience and nanotechnology have become a very important branch of science technology. 10-9 stands for nano particles size less than 100 nm are said to be nanomaterial. Nanoscience connects chemistry, physics, biology, medicine, engineering sciences others. Nanomaterials synthesized in number ways, but conventional methods costly, time consuming pollute environment. Ho...

nanostructures by electric conditions on iron surfaces exposed to reactive oxygen plasmas U. Cvelbar, K. Ostrikov, I. Levchenko, M. Mozetic, and M. K. Sunkara Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova cesta 39, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Plasma Nanoscience Centre Australia (PNCA), CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering, P.O. Box 218, Lindfield, New South Wales 2070, Australia Plasma Nanoscience, School ...

In 2000, the National Institute of Health launched the National Nanotechnology Initiative to support, coordinate, and advance research and development of nanoscale projects. The impact of this new program on health-science related research and development became quickly visible. Broad governmental financial support advanced the start of new, and the deepening of already existing, interdisciplin...

G. de Lange, D. Ristè, M. J. Tiggelman, C. Eichler, L. Tornberg, G. Johansson, A. Wallraff, R. N. Schouten, and L. DiCarlo Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5046, 2600 GA Delft, Netherlands Department of Physics, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, MC2, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Gothenbu...

Systems Jan Lipfert,†,‡ Maarten M. van Oene,‡ Mina Lee,‡ Francesco Pedaci,‡,§ and Nynke H. Dekker*,‡ †Department of Physics, Nanosystems Initiative Munich, and Center for NanoScience (CeNS), Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Amalienstrasse 54, 80799 Munich, Germany ‡Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft, The ...

Cover illustrations: TOP LEFT: Ordered lubricants confined to nanoscale gap (Peter Cummings). BOTTOM LEFT: Hypothetical spintronic quantum computer (Sankar Das Sarma and Bruce Kane). TOP RIGHT: Folded spectrum method for free-standing quantum dot (Alex Zunger). MIDDLE RIGHT: Equilibrium structures of bare and chemically modified gold nanowires (Uzi Landman).

Xiao Lin,1 Niklas Nilius,1,* Martin Sterrer,1 Pekka Koskinen,2 Hannu Häkkinen,2,3 and Hans-Joachim Freund1 1Fritz-Haber Institut der MPG, Faradayweg 4-6, D14195 Berlin, Germany 2Department of Physics, Nanoscience Center, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35 (YFL), FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland 3Department of Chemistry, Nanoscience Center, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35 (YFL), FI-40014 Jyväs...