The seminal literature of nanotechnology research

Kostoff, Ronald N.; Murday, J. S.; Lau, Clifford G. Y.; Tolles, W. M.

doi:10.1007/s11051-005-9034-9

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“…With regard to scientific publications, Kostoff and his co-authors (Kostoff et al 2006a(Kostoff et al , b, 2007a) in a series of papers analyzed the records of Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Engineering Compendex publications and found that although the growth of the global nanotechnology scientific articles is a worldwide phenomenon, the most rapid growth in publications during the past decade has occurred in the East Asian nations, notably China and South Korea. While the United States remains the leader in the production of aggregate nanotechnology research articles, China has achieved parity or has even taken the lead in some selected nanotechnology sub-areas.…”

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Nanoscience and technology publications and patents: a review of social science studies and search strategies

2010

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We undertake a comprehensive review of more than 120 social science studies on nanotechnology, 90% of which are based on the analyses of the nanotechnology publications and patents. We discussed four intellectual debates formed by these studies, namely whether nanotechnology is an interdisciplinary field, whether nanoscience and nanotechnology are closely interlinked, whether nanotechnology development is path dependent and who is winning the global nanorace. We also conduct a comparative analysis of bibliometric search strategies used in the literature to harvest the publications and patents, including lexical queries, evolutionary lexical queries, citation analysis, and the use of core journal sets to identify nanotechnology articles. Because most of the compared strategies, except the one using 10 core journals in the field, share a core set of keywords and thus harvest a common batch of publications, they produce very similar ranking tables of the top subject areas and journals and the most prolific countries and institutions. Moreover, the core journal strategy does not provide a robust delineation of an emerging field such as nanotechnology due to the fact that nanotechnology related articles are published in a wide range of journals. Also, the different criteria for selecting the core journals will affect the analytical results dramatically.

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Nanoscience and technology publications and patents: a review of social science studies and search strategies

2010

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“…In addition, it is well known that in free space, the stable atomic configuration of a nanocluster of a material may differ significantly from the crystalline lattice of the bulk state because of the surface effect [422][423][424][425]. In Section 5.2, it was mentioned that an elastically strained and coherent InAs thin film with the zinc-blende lattice on the GaAs(001) substrate should be mechanically unstable.…”

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Self-assembly of InAs quantum dots on GaAs(001) by molecular beam epitaxy

Jin

2015

Front. Phys.

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Currently, the nature of self-assembly of three-dimensional epitaxial islands or quantum dots (QDs) in a lattice-mismatched heteroepitaxial growth system, such as InAs/GaAs(001) and Ge/Si(001) as fabricated by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), is still puzzling. The purpose of this article is to discuss how the self-assembly of InAs QDs in MBE InAs/GaAs(001) should be properly understood in atomic scale. First, the conventional kinetic theories that have traditionally been used to interpret QD self-assembly in heteroepitaxial growth with a significant lattice mismatch are reviewed briefly by examining the literature of the past two decades. Second, based on their own experimental data, the authors point out that InAs QD self-assembly can proceed in distinctly different kinetic ways depending on the growth conditions and so cannot be framed within a universal kinetic theory, and, furthermore, that the process may be transient, or the time required for a QD to grow to maturity may be significantly short, which is obviously inconsistent with conventional kinetic theories. Third, the authors point out that, in all of these conventional theories, two well-established experimental observations have been overlooked: i) A large number of “floating” indium atoms are present on the growing surface in MBE InAs/GaAs(001); ii) an elastically strained InAs film on the GaAs(001) substrate should be mechanically unstable. These two well-established experimental facts may be highly relevant and should be taken into account in interpreting InAs QD formation. Finally, the authors speculate that the formation of an InAs QD is more likely to be a collective event involving a large number of both indium and arsenic atoms simultaneously or, alternatively, a morphological/structural transformation in which a single atomic InAs sheet is transformed into a three-dimensional InAs island, accompanied by the rehybridization from the sp 2-bonded to sp 3-bonded atomic configuration of both indium and arsenic elements in the heteroepitaxial growth system.

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“…In the fields of nanoscale research, these areas of research connect back to seminal citations in the scientific literature that include, but are not limited to, surfaces, thin films and multilayers, materials, nanowires and catalysts, quantum dots (QDs), carbon nanotubes (CNTs), titanium dioxide, optics and photonics, and electron and atomic force microscopes. Today we also have scientific literature that cover fullerenes, nanotoxicology, nanosensors, molecular genetics, self -assembled mono-layers, nanophotonics, and nanoelectronics, among other fields (Kostoff et al, 2006).Because of nanotechnology's interdisciplinary nature, terms are often contested; the rationale for using 'nanotechnology' as a catch-all frame of reference here is because the term has condensed in the public imagination, at least for those who have heard of, or have an understanding of, the term. Outside of specialist fields, however, the term is largely still unknown, as the public awareness research we present here shows.…”

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Nanotechnology, Society, and Environment ☆

Murphy¹,

Munshi²,

Kurian³

et al. 2017

Reference Module in Materials Science and Materials Engineering

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SynopsisNanotechnology talk is moving out of its comfort zone of scientific discourse. As new products go to market and national and international organizations roll out public engagement programs on nanotechnology to discuss environmental and health issues, various sectors of the public are beginning to discuss what all the fuss is about. NonGovernmental Organizations have long since reacted; however, now the social sciences have begun to study the cultural phenomenon of nanotechnology, thus extending discourses and opening out nanotechnology to whole new social dimensions. We report here on these social dimensions and their new constructed imaginings, each of which is evident in the ways in which discourses around nanotechnology intersects with the economy, ecology, health, governance, and imagined futures. We conclude that there needs to be more than just an 'environmental, legal and social implications', or 'ELSI', sideshow within nanotechnology. The collective public imaginings of nanotechnology include tangles of science and science fiction, local enterprise and global transformation, all looking forward towards a sustainable future, while looking back on past debates about science and nature. Nanotechnology is already very much embedded in the social fabric of our life and times. IntroductionThe six volumes in this series have described powerful opportunities that nanotechnology presents for society, as represented by those of us who work within and around the physical sciences. But how is nanotechnology represented to and understood by the rest of society? What are the risks, benefits and other perspectives of nanotechnology that can be said to be shared knowledge among and between nano-specialists and non-specialists?Much of the discussion on nanotechnology covered in this chapter is often placed under the banner of environmental health and safety (EHS) issues or environmental, legal and social implications (ELSI), separating them from the science of nanomaterials. We prefer, however, to fix our gaze on the shared visions of technological specialists and nonspecialists alike when imagining a world with nanotechnology. As nanotechnology is seen as an important future development, scientific, technological, health and environmental issues associated with its application are expected to be closely linked to wider social, ethical and cultural concerns.This chapter focuses then on what can broadly be called the 'public imaginary' of nanotechnology. In this context, the term 'public' needs to be defined better. We refer 3 here to 'publics' rather than a singular public, reflecting the contemporary sociological view that science and technology is understood and used by various different public contexts, and that scientists of different hues are also part of these publics. We do not have the space here to present a detailed case about why understanding public perspectives on science is important. But the various perspectives of nanotechnology here will present enough evidence about the complexities of nanotechn...

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The seminal literature of nanotechnology research

Cited by 67 publications

References 168 publications

Nanoscience and technology publications and patents: a review of social science studies and search strategies

Nanoscience and technology publications and patents: a review of social science studies and search strategies

Self-assembly of InAs quantum dots on GaAs(001) by molecular beam epitaxy

Nanotechnology, Society, and Environment ☆

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