Nanotechnology - Interdisciplinarity, patterns of collaboration and differences in application

Scientometrics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 195-205

  Meyer, M ^a,b   Persson, O ^c  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 0000566876     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02458355     Document Type: Article

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12. Search terms used by Braun et al. as follows (all terms searched begin with nano): ∼crystalline, ∼structure, ∼particle, ∼scale, ∼composite, ∼tube, ∼crystal, ∼gram, ∼meter-Size, ∼phase, ∼cluster,∼size, ∼capsule, ∼crystallite, ∼sphere, ∼flagellate, ∼metric, ∼filtration, ∼lithography, ∼fabrication, ∼indentation, ∼technology, ∼colloid, ∼porous, ∼wire, ∼bridge, ∼crystallization, ∼tubule, ∼electronics, ∼vid, ∼particulate, ∼tribology, ∼foam, ∼diffraction, ∼tip, ∼aggregate, ∼crystallized, ∼flare, ∼material, ∼dispersed, ∼filament, ∼powder, ∼rheology, ∼architecture, ∼layer, ∼lithographic, ∼channel, ∼device, ∼electronic, ∼fiber, ∼granular, ∼heterogeneous, ∼meter-Thick, ∼peptide, ∼space, ∼Y-∼TZP/A12O3, ∼droplet, ∼feature, ∼gold, ∼grained, ∼mechanics, ∼multilayer, ∼pore, ∼probe, ∼whisker, ∼analysis, ∼ball, ∼cavity, ∼characterization, ∼column, ∼constriction, ∼disperse, ∼dispersion, ∼electrode, ∼fibrillar, ∼manipulation, ∼precipitate, ∼radian, ∼system, ∼technique, ∼template, ∼topography, ∼world, ∼analytical, ∼band, ∼cell, ∼cermet, ∼chemical, ∼chemistry, ∼coll, ∼crack, ∼cyrstalline, ∼diamond, ∼dissection, ∼domain, ∼engineering, ∼friction, ∼grain, ∼granule, ∼hardness, ∼heterostructure, ∼laminate, ∼layered, ∼machined, ∼mechanical, ∼metal, ∼meter-Particle, ∼meter-Thickness, ∼molecular, ∼photonics, ∼physics, ∼porosity, ∼processing, ∼replica, ∼rod, ∼science, ∼titanate, ∼twin, ∼vision, ∼wear, ∼AMP, ∼Mg2Si, ∼NMR, ∼Na-15, ∼composite, ∼-SnO2, ∼-Tin, ∼-ZrO2, ∼-object, ∼-optical, ∼amorphous, ∼anatomy, ∼anodization, ∼apatite, ∼battery, ∼body, ∼building, ∼cage, ∼capillarity, ∼capsular, ∼carbon, ∼carrier, ∼catalysis, ∼ceramics, ∼climate, ∼compound, ∼conductor, ∼cone, ∼construction, ∼contact, ∼crystal-Doped, ∼cube, ∼cyclitic, ∼deformation, ∼dimension, ∼dimensional,∼disk, ∼dislocation, ∼displacement, ∼drop, ∼droplet-ABA, ∼dynamical, ∼elastohydrodynamics, ∼electromechanical, ∼electron, ∼element, ∼encapsulated, ∼environment, ∼equivalent, ∼etching, ∼fabricated, ∼fibril, ∼filtered, ∼gate, ∼gauge, ∼glass, ∼heterogeneity, ∼heterotrophic, ∼hole, ∼inclusion, ∼ionics, ∼junction, ∼kinematics, ∼laminated, ∼lithographically, ∼machine, ∼machining, ∼magnetism, ∼mask, ∼matrix, ∼mechanism, ∼mental, vmeric, ∼meter-Structure, ∼meter-T, ∼meter-Thin, ∼meter-Width, ∼metersized, ∼modification, ∼optics, ∼pattern, ∼pinhole, ∼pipe, ∼pit, ∼polar, vpolyhedra, ∼porous,∼positioner, ∼precipitation, ∼programmed, ∼reaction, ∼reactor, ∼rheological, ∼roughness, ∼scaffolding, ∼scatterer, ∼sled, ∼slider, ∼solid, ∼source, ∼spacing, ∼spectroscopy, ∼strain, ∼strip, ∼subharmonics, ∼surface, ∼texture, ∼textured, ∼thin, ∼tool, ∼trace, ∼tubue, ∼welding, ∼word.
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16. The patent data were retrieved from the US patent data abstract file #25 via Dialog based on the keywords used for article retrieval plus a limited number of other expressions relevant. The search terms were as follows (all terms searched begin with nano): ∼crystalline?, ∼filter?, ∼illumination?, ∼inclusions?, ∼indentation?, ∼laminate?, ∼layer?, ∼lithography?, ∼matrix?, ∼mechanic?, ∼meric?, ∼meter?, ∼metes?, ∼metr?, ∼mhase?, ∼trimeters?, ∼modification?, ∼mole?, ∼mters?, ∼osized?, ∼particles?, ∼particulates?, ∼perm?, ∼piqment?,∼polyhedron?, ∼por?, ∼powder?, ∼probe?, ∼program?, ∼rom?, ∼sampling?, ∼seal?, ∼sequencer?, ∼shell?, ∼sized?,∼slider?, ∼sol?, ∼sphere?, ∼sponge?, ∼store?, ∼structur?, ∼substituted?, ∼substrate?, ∼suspensions?, ∼technology?, ∼titanate?, ∼tube?, ∼tubul?, ∼units?,∼whiskers?, ∼wire?
17. Institutions and individuals from China and Russia do not hold any US patents yet. This is why they are neglected here.
18. A. GIBBONS et al., The New Production of Knowledge, London, Sage. 1994.