The US National Nanotechnology Initiative project define nanotechnology as technology concerned with materials and systems whose structures and components exhibit novel and significantly improved physical, chemical and biological properties, phenomena and processes because of their small nanoscale size. The great variation in expert opinions is due to the nature of this emerging area as potential area that integrates so far separate, autonomous and to some extent unrelated disciplines.

The overview of research in nanotechnology in Lithuania was based on the methodology developed by the European Commission working group on mapping of excellence in that area. Formulating an appropriate search strategy for the mapping exercise depends critically on how the area that is to be mapped is defined.

The great variation in expert opinions is due to the nature of this emerging area as potential area that integrates so far separate, autonomous and to some extent unrelated disciplines. It includes variety of other topics. Structural features in the range of about 109 to 107 1 to nanometers determine important changes as compared to the behavior of isolated molecules 1 nanometer or of bulk materials.

The findings of mapping the competence in the field. Formulating an appropriate search strategy for the mapping exercise depends critically on how the area that is to be mapped is defined. Structural features in the range of about 109 to 107 1 to nanometers determine important changes as compared to the behavior of isolated molecules 1 nanometer or of bulk materials. Nanotechnology Research in Lithuania Valentinas Snitka Research Center for Microsystems and Nanotechnology, KTU, Kaunas, Lithuania What is nanotechnology? As recent studies shows, there is little consensus on what exactly nanotechnology is.

The overview of research in nanotechnology in Lithuania was based on the methodology developed by the European Commission working group on mapping of excellence in that area. The US National Nanotechnology Initiative project define nanotechnology as technology concerned with materials and systems whose structures and components exhibit novel and significantly improved physical, chemical and biological properties, phenomena and processes because of their small nanoscale size. Structural features in the range of about 109 to 107 1 to nanometers determine important changes as compared to the behavior of isolated molecules 1 nanometer or of bulk materials.