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The branch of science concerned with the properties of matter and energy and the relationships between them.

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quantum computer

Physics; Nanotechnology

A computer that takes advantage of quantum mechanical properties such as superposition and entanglement resulting from nanoscale, molecular, atomic and subatomic components. ...

quantum confined atoms (QCA)

Physics; Nanotechnology

Atoms caged inside nanocrystals. May find uses in clear-glass sunglasses, bio-sensors, and optical computing.

quantum cryptography

Physics; Nanotechnology

A system based on quantum- mechanical principles. Eavesdroppers alter the quantum state of the system and so are detected. Developed by Brassard and Bennett, only small laboratory ...

posthuman

Physics; Nanotechnology

Persons of unprecedented physical, intellectual, and psychological capacity, self-programming, self-constituting, potentially immortal, unlimited individuals.

protein design, protein engineering

Physics; Nanotechnology

The design and construction of new proteins; an enabling technology for nanotechnology.

protein folding

Physics; Nanotechnology

The process by which proteins acquire their functional, preordained, three-dimensional structure after they emerge, as linear polymers of amino acids, from the ribosome.

proteomics

Physics; Nanotechnology

Proteomics refers to the analysis of the expression, localizations, functions, and interactions of proteomes. The term proteome refers to all the proteins expressed by a genome, ...