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Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies

Getting started

Not sure where to begin? Try a topic explorer that allows you to see a larger field and its subfields. A great source for this is Credo Reference.

Credo Reference topic page for nanotechnology

Nanotechnology topic page in Credo Reference

Credo Reference mind map for nanotechnology

Nanotechnology mind map page for Credo

 

Team Presentation Topics

Team presentations will be on the topics below. Use Credo to begin your search. Sample entries include:

Society journal websites

Don't forget about the society journal websites that will help you find peer-reviewed articles about nanotechnology right away. Recommended ones include:

Recommended society databases (x = particularly strong in this field)

Society name Environment I & II Energy capture & storage Electronics & photonics Medicine I & II
ACS - American Chemical Society x x x x
AIP - American Institute of Physics   x x  
ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers x x    
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers   x x  
NCBI - National center for Biotechnology Information       x
PubMed - biomedical literature       x
ScienceDirect - a database of peer-reviewed articles; particularly strong in biology and medicine x x x x

Search suggestions

Sample Primo searches include the topics below. A few are linked to actual Primo searches so you can see how the search is formed and how it affects the search results. Just go to Primo and copy one of these searches in to see your results:

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