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consumers (economics) 240–1
contact angle methods 43
contact area (living cells) 97–8
contact topography methods 75–8, 79
contrast enhancement (metrology) 77–8
conventionally prepared nanoparticles 186
cooperativity 48–9, 179
Cooper–Nuttall spreading coefficient 44
copolymers 172–4
copper nanoparticles 121–2
corona 92–3
cotunneling 138
Coulomb electronics 139, 140
counterions 122
coupling peak width changes 98–9
covalent bonds 36
cracking 29–30, 120–1
critical single domain size 28
crystals:
absorption/emission spectra 12
crystallization 10, 114–15, 177–8
forces 41–2
graphene 191
growth/nucleation 108
nanoscales 19
supramolecular chemistry 114–15
two-dimensional crystallization 177–8
cutoff thickness (adhesion) 94
CVD see chemical vapor deposition
cylindrical microcavities 150
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daisy chain models 181
dangling bonds 185
Darwinian evolution 208
de Broglie relationship 80–1
de novo material fabrication 11–13
defects 202–4
dehydron 48, 238
‘demon’ (Maxwell) 7
denaturation 63, 64, 68–9, 209
density functional theory (DFT) 186, 205
deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA):
bionanotechnology 214–15, 221–2
nanomedicine 65
nanoscales 15–16
texture 90
depletion layers 135–6
Derjaguin approximation 40–1
detachment force 97–8
detector devices 128
devices 125–59
bionanotechnology 222–3, 224
capillary forces 45
carbon-based 189–97
concept systems 4–5
digital information 129–32
electronics 135–42, 187
fluidic 153–7, 158
mechanical 151–3
miniaturization 13–14, 127–9, 142–5
nanofacture 161–88
photonic 148–50
quantum computing 133–5
spintronics 145–8 see also nanobots
dewetting 43–4
diabetes 156
diagnosis (health) 236, 237–8
diamond 140, 189–90