Posted: December 15, 2008

Scientific output in nanoscience increased by nearly 16% per year during the last decade

(Nanowerk News) Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Nanotechnology - World R&D Report 2008 - Research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology" report to their offering.

This bibliometric report examines scientific activity in nanoscience using scientific papers, as well as intellectual property in nanotechnology using patents granted by the USPTO. The central aim of the scientometric and technometric analyses is to identify areas in which high-output, high-intensity, and high-impact research is being conducted. For this purpose, emphasis is placed on ranking research at the country, company and university levels. In addition, the report examines how nanoscale research and technology are evolving over time and features detailed analyses of eight non-mutually exclusive domains of nanoscale R&D.

Nanoscience and nanotechnology are hotbeds of R&D wherein emergent properties of matter, which are present only at extremely small feature scales, are discovered and exploited. R&D Reports uses bibliometric indicators calculated on peer-reviewed papers in the Scopus database and granted patents in the USPTO database to produce multicriteria rankings and collaboration networks of countries, universities and companies.

These show, at a glance, the leaders' scientific and technological positions in eight key domains of nanoscience and nanotechnology:

General Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Materials

Electronics and Computing

Optics and Photonics

Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS)

Medicine and biology

Energy

Environment

Metrology

Key findings include:

The scientific output in nanoscience increased at a compound annual growth rate of nearly 16% during the last decade.

The scientific output in Republic of Korea and China exhibit spectacular growth.

The number of patents granted has also grown rapidly (10%).

Nanomaterials, nanophotonics, nanoelectronics and nanoscience in medicine & biology represent the largest concentration of R&D.

Growth is particularly fast in emerging domains, namely NEMS, energy and environment.

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Source: Research and Markets