| Class Number |
Class Name |
No. of Patents |
| 977/840 |
Manufacture, treatment, or detection of nanostructure |
104 |
| 977/882 |
Assembling of separate components (e.g., by attaching, etc.) |
32 |
| 977/884 |
Assembled via biorecognition entity |
3 |
| 977/885 |
Via nucleic acid hybridization |
8 |
| 977/886 |
Via protein recognition |
2 |
| 977/883 |
Fluidic self-assembly ("fsa") |
25 |
| 977/890 |
Deposition of materials (e.g., coating, cvd, or ald, etc.) |
172 |
| 977/893 |
Deposition in pores (molding) with subsequent removal of mold |
20 |
| 977/892 |
Liquid phase deposition |
37 |
| 977/891 |
Vapor phase deposition |
68 |
| 977/841 |
Environmental containment or disposal of nanostructure material |
22 |
| 977/842 |
For carbon nanotubes or fullerenes |
186 |
| 977/843 |
Gas phase catalytic growth (i.e., chemical vapor deposition) |
175 |
| 977/844 |
Growth by vaporization or dissociation of carbon source using a high-energy heat source (e.g., electric arc, laser, plasma, e-beam, etc.) |
104 |
| 977/846 |
Internal modifications (e.g., filling, endohedral modifications, etc.) |
15 |
| 977/845 |
Purification or separation of fullerenes or nanotubes |
74 |
| 977/847 |
Surface modifications (e.g., functionalization, coating, etc.) |
85 |
| 977/848 |
Tube end modifications (e.g., capping, joining, splicing, etc.) |
25 |
| 977/894 |
Having step or means utilizing biological growth |
7 |
| 977/895 |
Having step or means utilizing chemical property |
51 |
| 977/896 |
Chemical synthesis (e.g., chemical bonding or breaking, etc.) |
129 |
| 977/899 |
Electrolytic |
7 |
| 977/898 |
Enzymatic |
31 |
| 977/897 |
Polymerization |
42 |
| 977/901 |
Having step or means utilizing electromagnetic property (e.g., optical, x-ray, electron beamm, etc.) |
47 |
| 977/900 |
Having step or means utilizing mechanical or thermal property (e.g., pressure, heat, etc.) |
80 |
| 977/887 |
Nanoimprint lithography (i.e., nanostamp) |
85 |
| 977/888 |
Shaping or removal of materials (e.g., etching, etc.) |
173 |
| 977/889 |
By laser ablation |
15 |
| 977/880 |
With arrangement, process, or apparatus for testing |
25 |
| 977/881 |
Microscopy or spectroscopy (e.g., sem, tem, etc.) |
135 |
| 977/849 |
With scanning probe |
139 |
| 977/852 |
For detection of specific nanostructure sample or nanostructure-related property |
177 |
| 977/853 |
Biological sample |
39 |
| 977/854 |
Semiconductor sample |
57 |
| 977/855 |
For manufacture of nanostructure |
53 |
| 977/857 |
Including coating |
54 |
| 977/856 |
Including etching/cutting |
56 |
| 977/858 |
Including positioning/mounting nanostructure |
24 |
| 977/859 |
Including substrate treatment |
25 |
| 977/850 |
Scanning probe control process |
77 |
| 977/851 |
Particular movement or positioning of scanning tip |
172 |
| 977/860 |
Scanning probe structure |
121 |
| 977/863 |
Atomic force probe |
104 |
| 977/864 |
Electrostatic force probe |
14 |
| 977/865 |
Magnetic force probe |
62 |
| 977/862 |
Near-field probe |
104 |
| 977/872 |
Positioner |
148 |
| 977/874 |
Probe tip array |
63 |
| 977/866 |
Scanning capacitance probe |
11 |
| 977/867 |
Scanning thermal probe |
23 |
| 977/861 |
Scanning tunneling probe |
140 |
| 977/873 |
Tip holder |
156 |
| 977/871 |
With environmental regulation means |
43 |
| 977/868 |
With optical means |
76 |
| 977/870 |
Optical lever arm for reflecting light |
77 |
| 977/869 |
Optical microscope |
91 |
| 977/875 |
With tip detail |
82 |
| 977/877 |
Chemically functionalized |
17 |
| 977/879 |
Material |
52 |
| 977/876 |
Nanotube tip |
48 |
| 977/878 |
Shape/taper |
51 |
| 977/839 |
Mathematical algorithms, e.g., computer software, etc., specifically adapted for modeling configurations or properties of nanostructure |
15 |
| 977/963 |
Miscellaneous |
23 |
| 977/700 |
Nanostructure |
116 |
| 977/754 |
Dendrimer (i.e., serially branching or "tree-like" structure) |
18 |
| 977/724 |
Devices having flexible or movable element |
65 |
| 977/731 |
Formed from a single atom, molecule, or cluster |
16 |
| 977/727 |
Formed from biological material |
4 |
| 977/730 |
For electrical purposes |
2 |
| 977/729 |
From protein or unit thereof (e.g., enzyme or carboxyl group, etc.) |
7 |
| 977/728 |
Nucleic acids (e.g., dna or rna, etc.) |
17 |
| 977/732 |
Nanocantilever |
27 |
| 977/733 |
Nanodiaphragm |
13 |
| 977/725 |
Nanomotor/nanoactuator |
51 |
| 977/726 |
Using chemical reaction/biological energy (e.g., atp, etc.) |
1 |
| 977/827 |
Formed from hybrid organic/inorganic semiconductor compositions |
13 |
| 977/828 |
Biological composition interconnected with inorganic material |
7 |
| 977/830 |
Inorganic core or cluster coated with organic or biological shell |
17 |
| 977/829 |
Organic or biological core coated with inorganic shell |
7 |
| 977/734 |
Fullerenes (i.e., graphene-based structures, such as nanohorns, nanococoons, nanoscrolls, etc.) or fullerene-like structures (e.g., ws2 or mos2 chalcogenide nanotubes, planar c3n4, etc.) |
141 |
| 977/735 |
Carbon buckyball (c60, c70, etc., and derivatives and modifications thereof) |
34 |
| 977/737 |
Having a modified surface |
16 |
| 977/740 |
Modified with atoms or molecules bonded to the surface |
4 |
| 977/738 |
Modified with biological, organic, or hydrocarbon material |
18 |
| 977/739 |
Modified with an enzyme |
2 |
| 977/741 |
Modified with dissimilar atom or molecule substituted for carbon atoms of the buckyball (e.g., impurity doping or compositional substitution, etc.) |
5 |
| 977/736 |
Having atoms interior to the carbon cage |
12 |
| 977/742 |
Carbon nanotubes (cnts) |
318 |
| 977/745 |
Having a modified surface |
53 |
| 977/748 |
Modified with atoms or molecules bonded to the surface |
35 |
| 977/746 |
Modified with biological, organic, or hydrocarbon material |
25 |
| 977/747 |
Modified with an enzyme |
7 |
| 977/749 |
Modified with dissimilar atoms or molecules substituted for carbon atoms of the cnt (e.g., impurity doping or compositional substitution, etc.) |
12 |
| 977/744 |
Having atoms interior to the carbon cage |
12 |
| 977/743 |
Having specified tube end structure (e.g., close-ended shell or open-ended tube, etc.) |
33 |
| 977/752 |
Multi-walled |
25 |
| 977/750 |
Single-walled |
82 |
| 977/751 |
With specified chirality and/or electrical conductivity (e.g., chirality of (5,4), (5,5), (10,5), etc.) |
10 |
| 977/753 |
With polymeric or organic binder |
90 |
| 977/832 |
Having specified property (e.g., lattice-constant, thermal expansion coefficient, etc.) |
18 |
| 977/835 |
Chemical or nuclear reactivity/stability of composition or compound forming nanomaterial |
48 |
| 977/836 |
Having biological reactive capability |
10 |
| 977/838 |
Magnetic property of nanomaterial |
93 |
| 977/834 |
Optical properties of nanomaterial (e.g., specified transparency, opacity, or index of refraction, etc.) |
59 |
| 977/837 |
Piezoelectric property of nanomaterial |
37 |
| 977/833 |
Thermal property of nanomaterial (e.g., thermally conducting/insulating or exhibiting peltier or seebeck effect, etc.) |
54 |
| 977/701 |
Integrated with dissimilar structures on a common substrate |
29 |
| 977/712 |
Formed from plural layers of nanosized material (e.g., stacked structures, etc.) |
73 |
| 977/714 |
Containing protein |
1 |
| 977/713 |
Including lipid layer |
1 |
| 977/702 |
Having biological material component |
10 |
| 977/706 |
Carbohydrate |
3 |
| 977/703 |
Cellular |
0 |
| 977/704 |
Nucleic acids (e.g., dna or rna, etc.) |
18 |
| 977/705 |
Protein or peptide |
10 |
| 977/707 |
Having different types of nanoscale structures or devices on a common substrate |
21 |
| 977/720 |
On an electrically conducting, semi-conducting, or semi-insulating substrate |
42 |
| 977/722 |
On a metal substrate |
12 |
| 977/721 |
On a silicon substrate |
33 |
| 977/723 |
On an electrically insulating substrate |
26 |
| 977/715 |
On an organic substrate |
10 |
| 977/716 |
Biological cell surface |
0 |
| 977/718 |
Carbohydrate substrate |
0 |
| 977/717 |
Lipid substrate |
4 |
| 977/719 |
Nucleic acid substrate |
1 |
| 977/708 |
With distinct switching device |
18 |
| 977/709 |
Including molecular switching device |
5 |
| 977/710 |
Biological switching |
1 |
| 977/711 |
Nucleic acid switching |
0 |
| 977/773 |
Nanoparticle (structure having three dimensions of 100 nm or less) |
351 |
| 977/774 |
Exhibiting three-dimensional carrier confinement (e.g., quantum dots, etc.) |
57 |
| 977/775 |
Nanosized powder or flake (e.g., nanosized catalyst, etc.) |
264 |
| 977/776 |
Ceramic powder or flake |
112 |
| 977/777 |
Metallic powder or flake |
139 |
| 977/755 |
Nanosheet or quantum barrier/well (i.e., layer structure having one dimension or thickness of 100 nm or less) |
27 |
| 977/756 |
Lipid layer |
1 |
| 977/757 |
Layer containing protein |
0 |
| 977/758 |
Mono-atomic layer on delta-doped sheet |
4 |
| 977/759 |
Quantum well dimensioned for intersubband transitions (e.g., for use in unipolar light emitters or quantum well infrared photodetectors, etc.) |
54 |
| 977/760 |
Superlattice with graded effective bandgap (e.g., "chirp-graded" superlattice, etc.) |
25 |
| 977/761 |
Superlattice with well or barrier thickness adapted for increasing the reflection, transmission, or filtering of carriers having energies above the bulk-form conduction or valence band energy level of the well or barrier (i.e., well or barrier with ninteger^carrier/4 thickness) |
31 |
| 977/762 |
Nanowire or quantum wire (axially elongated structure having two dimensions of 100 nm or less) |
160 |
| 977/766 |
Bent wire (i.e., having nonliner longitudinal axis) |
3 |
| 977/768 |
Helical wire |
3 |
| 977/769 |
Formed with nucleic acid |
2 |
| 977/770 |
Formed with polyamide polymers |
4 |
| 977/767 |
Mesh structure |
3 |
| 977/771 |
Nanoring |
0 |
| 977/772 |
Formed from circular biomolecule (e.g., dna, heme, chelators, etc.) |
0 |
| 977/763 |
Formed along or from crystallographic terraces or ridges |
14 |
| 977/765 |
With specified cross-sectional profile (e.g., belt-shaped, etc.) |
14 |
| 977/764 |
With specified packing density |
7 |
| 977/831 |
Of specified ceramic or electrically insulating compositions |
12 |
| 977/813 |
Of specified inorganic semiconductor composition (e.g., periodic table group iv-vi compositions, etc.) |
49 |
| 977/824 |
Group ii-vi nonoxide compounds (e.g., cdxmnyte, etc.) |
20 |
| 977/815 |
Group iii-v based compounds (e.g., alagabincnxpyasz, etc.) |
23 |
| 977/822 |
Boron-containing compounds |
4 |
| 977/819 |
Iii-as based compounds (e.g., alxgayinzas, etc.) |
6 |
| 977/816 |
Iii-n based compounds (e.g., alxgayinzn, etc.) |
6 |
| 977/817 |
High-indium-content ingan pooling or clusters |
2 |
| 977/818 |
Iii-p based compounds (e.g., alxgayin2p, etc.) |
7 |
| 977/820 |
Iii-sb based compounds (e.g., alxgayinzsb, etc.) |
5 |
| 977/821 |
Mixed group v compounds (e.g., iii-nxpy, etc.) |
1 |
| 977/823 |
Tl-containing or bi-containing compounds |
2 |
| 977/814 |
Group iv based elements and compounds (e.g., cxsiygez, porous silicon, etc.) |
20 |
| 977/825 |
Heterojunction formed between semiconductor materials that differ in that they belong to different periodic table groups (e.g., ge (group iv) - gaas (group iii-v) or inp (group iii-v) - cdte (group ii-vi), etc.) |
9 |
| 977/826 |
Nonstoichiometric semiconductor compounds (e.g., iiixvy; x does not equal y, etc.) |
3 |
| 977/810 |
Of specified metal or metal alloy composition |
37 |
| 977/811 |
Of specified metal oxide composition (e.g., conducting or semiconducting compositions such as ito, znox, etc.) |
90 |
| 977/812 |
Perovskites and superconducting composition (e.g., baxsr1-xtio3, etc.) |
4 |
| 977/788 |
Of specified organic or carbon-based composition |
181 |
| 977/795 |
Composed of biological material |
52 |
| 977/796 |
For electrical or electronic purpose |
6 |
| 977/789 |
In array format |
17 |
| 977/790 |
With heterogeneous nanostructures |
1 |
| 977/794 |
Chemical library array |
1 |
| 977/791 |
Molecular array |
4 |
| 977/792 |
Nucleic acid array (e.g., human genome array, etc.) |
18 |
| 977/793 |
Protein array |
8 |
| 977/797 |
Lipid particle |
18 |
| 977/798 |
Having internalized material |
6 |
| 977/799 |
Containing biological material |
3 |
| 977/801 |
Drug |
62 |
| 977/800 |
Nucleic acid (e.g., dna or rna, etc.) |
24 |
| 977/809 |
Organic film on silicon |
5 |
| 977/802 |
Virus-based particle |
41 |
| 977/803 |
Containing biological material in its interior |
14 |
| 977/805 |
Containing drug |
9 |
| 977/804 |
Containing nucleic acid |
40 |
| 977/806 |
With exterior chemical attachment |
3 |
| 977/807 |
Exterior attachment for detection |
0 |
| 977/808 |
Exterior attachment for targeting (e.g., drug targeting, etc.) |
20 |
| 977/778 |
Within specified host or matrix material (e.g., nanocomposite films, etc.) |
73 |
| 977/784 |
Electrically conducting, semi-conducting, or semi-insulating host material |
17 |
| 977/785 |
Electrically insulating host material |
13 |
| 977/786 |
Fluidic host/matrix containing nanomaterials |
26 |
| 977/787 |
Viscous fluid host/matrix containing nanomaterials |
13 |
| 977/783 |
Organic host/matrix (e.g., lipid, etc.) |
32 |
| 977/780 |
Possessing fully enclosed nanosized voids or physical holes |
13 |
| 977/779 |
Possessing nanosized particles, powders, flakes, or clusters other than simple atomic impurity doping |
56 |
| 977/782 |
Possessing nanosized physical convexity, ridge, or protrusion extending upward from the host's surface |
9 |
| 977/781 |
Possessing nonosized surface openings that extend partially into or completely through the host material |
23 |
| 977/902 |
Specified use of nanostructure |
94 |
| 977/962 |
For carrying or transporting |
25 |
| 977/903 |
For conversion, containment, or destruction of hazardous material |
20 |
| 977/932 |
For electronic or optoelectronic application |
150 |
| 977/953 |
Detector using nanostructure |
42 |
| 977/957 |
Of chemical property or presence |
28 |
| 977/958 |
Of biomolecule property |
25 |
| 977/959 |
Of disease state |
9 |
| 977/960 |
Of magnetic property |
20 |
| 977/956 |
Of mechanical property |
10 |
| 977/954 |
Of radiant energy |
30 |
| 977/955 |
Of thermal property |
11 |
| 977/952 |
Display |
56 |
| 977/948 |
Energy storage/generating using nanostructure (e.g., fuel cell, battery, etc.) |
70 |
| 977/940 |
In a logic circuit |
58 |
| 977/941 |
Including dna logic element |
3 |
| 977/942 |
Including protein logic element |
3 |
| 977/936 |
In a transistor or 3-terminal device |
89 |
| 977/939 |
Electron emitter (e.g., spindt emitter tip coated with nanoparticles, etc.) |
84 |
| 977/938 |
Field effect transistors (fets) with nanowire- or nanotube-channel region |
83 |
| 977/937 |
Single electron transistor |
35 |
| 977/943 |
Information storage or retrieval using nanostructure |
134 |
| 977/944 |
Biochemical memory |
3 |
| 977/946 |
Nucleic acid memory |
1 |
| 977/945 |
Protein memory |
0 |
| 977/947 |
With scanning probe instrument |
129 |
| 977/949 |
Radiation emitter using nanostructure |
27 |
| 977/950 |
Electromagnetic energy |
51 |
| 977/951 |
Laser |
58 |
| 977/933 |
Spintronics or quantum computing |
74 |
| 977/934 |
Giant magnetoresistance (gmr) |
38 |
| 977/935 |
Spin dependent tunnel (sdt) junction (e.g., tunneling magnetoresistance (tmr), etc.) |
24 |
| 977/904 |
For medical, immunological, body treatment, or diagnosis |
115 |
| 977/925 |
Bioelectrical |
13 |
| 977/923 |
Cell culture |
11 |
| 977/919 |
Dental |
7 |
| 977/920 |
Detection of biochemical |
87 |
| 977/922 |
Of explosive material |
1 |
| 977/921 |
Of toxic chemical |
3 |
| 977/927 |
Diagnostic contrast agent |
84 |
| 977/930 |
Mri contrast agent |
39 |
| 977/929 |
Ultrasound contrast agent |
42 |
| 977/928 |
X-ray agent |
51 |
| 977/906 |
Drug delivery |
169 |
| 977/907 |
Liposome |
119 |
| 977/918 |
Immunological |
66 |
| 977/908 |
Mechanical repair performed/surgical |
10 |
| 977/911 |
Cancer cell destruction |
23 |
| 977/912 |
Cancer cell repair |
17 |
| 977/909 |
Obstruction removal |
0 |
| 977/913 |
Stem cell therapy implantation |
0 |
| 977/910 |
Strengthening cell or tissue |
17 |
| 977/931 |
Medical device coating |
17 |
| 977/914 |
Protein engineering |
20 |
| 977/905 |
Specially adapted for travel through blood circulatory system |
43 |
| 977/915 |
Therapeutic or pharmaceutical composition |
226 |
| 977/916 |
Gene therapy |
40 |
| 977/917 |
Vaccine |
34 |
| 977/926 |
Topical chemical (e.g., cosmetic or sunscreen, etc.) |
102 |
| 977/924 |
Using nanostructure as support of dna analysis |
55 |
| 977/961 |
For textile or fabric treatment |
11 |
