Nanomanufacturing

**Semantic type:** Classification

**Definition:** R&D aimed at enabling scaled-up, reliable, cost effective manufacturing of nanoscale materials, structures, devices, and systems. Includes R&D and integration of ultra-miniaturized top-down processes and increasingly complex bottom-up or self-assembly processes.

**Synonyms:** - NNI Project Component Area 5 - National Nanotechnology Initiative Project Component Area 5