§7509 Definitions

Summary

Defines key words used in the chapter. Advisory Panel is the President’s National Nanotechnology Advisory Panel set up or named under section 7503. Nanotechnology is the science and tech that lets people study, measure, control, and make things at the atomic, molecular, and supramolecular levels to create materials, devices, and systems with new molecular structures and functions. Program is the National Nanotechnology Program created under section 7501. Council is the National Science and Technology Council or a subgroup it names under section 7501(c). Advanced technology user facility is a federally funded nanotech R&D site open to U.S. researchers through competitive, merit-based review. Program component area is a major subject area set up under section 7501(c)(2) that groups related projects and activities under the Program.