In the list below, black type indicates terms chosen for the Nanoscale Science and Technology Supplement. Terms in gray type show the placement of the chosen terms within the overall scheme.
| 00. | GENERAL |
| 03. | Quantum mechanics, field theories, and special relativity |
| 03.67.-a | Quantum information |
| 03.67.Ac | Quantum algorithms, protocols, and simulations |
| 03.67.Bg | Entanglement production and manipulation |
| 03.67.Dd | Quantum cryptography and communication security |
| 03.67.Hk | Quantum communication |
| 03.67.Lx | Quantum computation architectures and implementations |
| 03.67.Mn | Entanglement measures, witnesses, and other characterizations |
| 03.67.Pp | Quantum error correction and other methods for protection against decoherence |
| 07. | Instruments, apparatus, and components common to several branches of physics and astronomy |
| 07.10.-h | Mechanical instruments and equipment |
| 07.10.Cm | Micromechanical devices and systems |
| 07.79.-v | Scanning probe microscopes and components |
| 07.79.Cz | Scanning tunneling microscopes |
| 07.79.Fc | Near-field scanning optical microscopes |
| 07.79.Lh | Atomic force microscopes |
| 07.79.Pk | Magnetic force microscopes |
| 07.79.Sp | Friction force microscopes |
| 30. | ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS |
| 37. | Mechanical control of atoms, molecules, and ions |
| 37.25.+k | Atom interferometry techniques |
| 40. | ELECTROMAGNETISM, OPTICS, ACOUSTICS, HEAT TRANSFER, CLASSICAL MECHANICS, AND FLUID DYNAMICS |
| 42. | Optics |
| 42.50.-p | Quantum optics |
| 42.50.Ex | Optical implementations of quantum information processing and transfer |
| 42.50.Wk | Mechanical effects of light on material media, microstructures and particles |
| 42.70.-a | Optical materials |
| 42.70.Qs | Photonic bandgap materials |
| 47. | Fluid dynamics |
| 47.61.-k | Micro- and nano- scale flow phenomena |
| 47.61.Cb | Non-continuum effects |
| 47.61.Fg | Flows in micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) and nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS) |
| 47.61.Jd | Multiphase flows |
| 47.61.Ne | Micromixing |
| 60. | CONDENSED MATTER: STRUCTURAL, MECHANICAL, AND THERMAL PROPERTIES |
| 61. | Structure of solids and liquids; crystallography |
| 61.46.-w | Structure of nanoscale materials |
| 61.46.Bc | Structure of clusters (e.g., metcars; not fragments of crystals; free or loosely aggregated or loosely attached to a substrate) |
| 61.46.Df | Structure of nanocrystals and nanoparticles ("colloidal" quantum dots but not gate-isolated embedded quantum dots) |
| 61.46.Fg | Nanotubes |
| 61.46.Hk | Nanocrystals |
| 61.46.Km | Structure of nanowires and nanorods (long, free or loosely attached, quantum wires and quantum rods, but not gate-isolated embedded quantum wires) |
| 61.46.Np | Structure of nanotubes (hollow nanowires) |
| 61.48.-c | Structure of fullerenes and related hollow and planar molecular structures |
| 61.48.De | Structure of carbon nanotubes, boron nanotubes, and other related systems |
| 61.48.Gh | Structure of graphene |
| 62. | Mechanical and acoustical properties of condensed matter |
| 62.23.-c | Structural classes of nanoscale systems |
| 62.23.Eg | Nanodots |
| 62.23.Hj | Nanowires |
| 62.23.Kn | Nanosheets |
| 62.23.Pq | Composites (nanosystems embedded in a larger structure) |
| 62.23.St | Complex nanostructures, including patterned or assembled structures |
| 62.25.-g | Mechanical properties of nanoscale systems |
| 62.25.De | Low-frequency properties: response coefficients |
| 62.25.Fg | High-frequency properties, responses to resonant or transient (time-dependent) fields |
| 62.25.Jk | Mechanical modes of vibration |
| 62.25.Mn | Fracture/brittleness |
| 63. | Lattice dynamics |
| 63.22.-m | Phonons or vibrational states in low-dimensional structures and nanoscale materials |
| 63.22.Dc | Free films |
| 63.22.Gh | Nanotubes and nanowires |
| 63.22.Kn | Clusters and nanocrystals |
| 63.22.Np | Layered systems |
| 63.22.Rc | Phonons in graphene |
| 64. | Equations of state, phase equilibria, and phase transitions |
| 64.70.-p | Specific phase transitions |
| 64.70.Nd | Structural transitions in nanoscale materials |
| 64.75.-g | Phase equilibria |
| 64.75.Jk | Phase separation and segregation in nanoscale systems |
| 65. | Thermal properties of condensed matter |
| 65.80.-g | Thermal properties of small particles, nanocrystals, nanotubes, and other related systems |
| 65.80.Ck | Thermal properties of graphene |
| 66. | Nonelectronic transport properties of condensed matter |
| 66.30.-h | Diffusion in solids |
| 66.30.Pa | Diffusion in nanoscale solids |
| 68. | Surfaces and interfaces; thin films and nanosystems (structure and nonelectronic properties) |
| 68.35.-p | Solid surfaces and solid-solid interfaces: structure and energetics |
| 68.35.B- | Structure of clean surfaces (and surface reconstruction) |
| 68.35.bp | Fullerenes |
| 68.37.-d | Microscopy of surfaces, interfaces, and thin films |
| 68.37.Ef | Scanning tunneling microscopy (including chemistry induced with STM) |
| 68.37.Hk | Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) (including EBIC) |
| 68.37.Lp | Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) |
| 68.37.Ma | Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) |
| 68.37.Nq | Low energy electron microscopy (LEEM) |
| 68.37.Og | High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) |
| 68.37.Ps | Atomic force microscopy (AFM) |
| 68.37.Rt | Magnetic force microscopy (MFM) |
| 68.37.Tj | Acoustic force microscopy |
| 68.37.Uv | Near-field scanning microscopy and spectroscopy |
| 68.37.Vj | Field emission and field-ion microscopy |
| 68.37.Xy | Scanning Auger microscopy, photoelectron microscopy |
| 68.37.Yz | X-ray microscopy |
| 68.55.-a | Thin film structure and morphology |
| 68.55.A- | Nucleation and growth |
| 68.55.ap | Fullerenes |
| 68.65.-k | Low-dimensional, mesoscopic, nanoscale and other related systems: structure and nonelectronic properties |
| 68.65.Fg | Quantum wells |
| 68.65.Hb | Quantum dots (patterned in quantum wells) |
| 68.65.La | Quantum wires (patterned in quantum wells) |
| 68.65.Pq | Graphene films |
| 70. | CONDENSED MATTER: ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES |
| 71. | Electronic structure of bulk materials |
| 71.20.-b | Electron density of states and band structure of crystalline solids |
| 71.20.Tx | Fullerenes and related materials; intercalation compounds |
| 72. | Electronic transport in condensed matter |
| 72.25.-b | Spin polarized transport |
| 72.25.Ba | Spin polarized transport in metals |
| 72.25.Dc | Spin polarized transport in semiconductors |
| 72.25.Fe | Optical creation of spin polarized carriers |
| 72.25.Hg | Electrical injection of spin polarized carriers |
| 72.25.Mk | Spin transport through interfaces |
| 72.25.Pn | Current-driven spin pumping |
| 72.25.Rb | Spin relaxation and scattering |
| 72.80.-r | Conductivity of specific materials |
| 72.80.Rj | Fullerenes and related materials |
| 72.80.Vp | Electronic transport in graphene |
| 73. | Electronic structure and electrical properties of surfaces, interfaces, thin films, and low-dimensional structures |
| 73.21.-b | Electron states and collective excitations in multilayers, quantum wells, mesoscopic, and nanoscale systems |
| 73.21.Fg | Quantum wells |
| 73.21.Hb | Quantum wires |
| 73.21.La | Quantum dots |
| 73.22.-f | Electronic structure of nanoscale materials and related systems |
| 73.22.Dj | Single particle states |
| 73.22.Gk | Broken symmetry phases |
| 73.22.Lp | Collective excitations |
| 73.22.Pr | Electronic structure of graphene |
| 73.61.-r | Electrical properties of specific thin films |
| 73.61.Wp | Fullerenes and related materials |
| 73.63.-b | Electronic transport in nanoscale materials and structures |
| 73.63.Bd | Nanocrystalline materials |
| 73.63.Fg | Nanotubes |
| 73.63.Hs | Quantum wells |
| 73.63.Kv | Quantum dots |
| 73.63.Nm | Quantum wires |
| 73.63.Rt | Nanoscale contacts |
| 74. | Superconductivity |
| 74.70.-b | Superconducting materials other than cuprates |
| 74.70.Wz | Carbon-based superconductors |
| 74.78.-w | Superconducting films and low-dimensional structures |
| 74.78.Na | Mesoscopic and nanoscale systems |
| 75. | Magnetic properties and materials |
| 75.50.-y | Studies of specific magnetic materials |
| 75.50.Tt | Fine-particle systems; nanocrystalline materials |
| 75.50.Xx | Molecular magnets |
| 75.75.-c | Magnetic properties of nanostructures |
| 75.75.Cd | Fabrication of magnetic nanostructures |
| 75.75.Fk | Domain structures in nanoparticles |
| 75.75.Jn | Dynamics of magnetic nanoparticles |
| 75.75.Lf | Electronic structure of magnetic nanoparticles |
| 78. | Optical properties, condensed-matter spectroscopy and other interactions of radiation and particles with condensed matter |
| 78.30.-j | Infrared and Raman spectra |
| 78.30.Na | Fullerenes and related materials |
| 78.40.-q | Absorption and reflection spectra: visible and ultraviolet |
| 78.40.Ri | Fullerenes and related materials |
| 78.66.-w | Optical properties of specific thin films |
| 78.66.Tr | Fullerenes and related materials |
| 78.67.-n | Optical properties of low-dimensional, mesoscopic, and nanoscale materials and structures |
| 78.67.Bf | Nanocrystals, nanoparticles, and nanoclusters |
| 78.67.Ch | Nanotubes |
| 78.67.De | Quantum wells |
| 78.67.Hc | Quantum dots |
| 78.67.Lt | Quantum wires |
| 78.67.Pt | Multilayers; superlattices; photonic structures; metamaterials |
| 78.67.Qa | Nanorods |
| 78.67.Rb | Nanoporous materials |
| 78.67.Sc | Nanoaggregates; nanocomposites |
| 78.67.Tf | Nanodroplets |
| 78.67.Uh | Nanowires |
| 78.67.Ve | Nanomicelles |
| 78.67.Wj | Optical properties of graphene |
| 79. | Electron and ion emission by liquids and solids; impact phenomena |
| 79.60.-i | Photoemission and photoelectron spectra |
| 79.60.Jv | Interfaces; heterostructures; nanostructures |
| 80. | INTERDISCIPLINARY PHYSICS AND RELATED AREAS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY |
| 81. | Materials science |
| 81.05.-t | Specific materials: fabrication, treatment, testing, and analysis |
| 81.05.U- | Carbon/carbon-based materials |
| 81.05.ub | Fullerenes and related materials |
| 81.05.ue | Graphene |
| 81.05.uj | Diamond/nanocarbon composites |
| 81.07.-b | Nanoscale materials and structures: fabrication and characterization |
| 81.07.Bc | Nanocrystalline materials |
| 81.07.De | Nanotubes |
| 81.07.Gf | Nanowires |
| 81.07.Lk | Nanocontacts |
| 81.07.Nb | Molecular nanostructures |
| 81.07.Oj | Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) |
| 81.07.Pr | Organic-inorganic hybrid nanostructures |
| 81.07.St | Quantum wells |
| 81.07.Ta | Quantum dots |
| 81.07.Vb | Quantum wires |
| 81.07.Wx | Nanopowders |
| 81.16.-c | Methods of micro- and nanofabrication and processing |
| 81.16.Be | Chemical synthesis methods |
| 81.16.Dn | Self-assembly |
| 81.16.Fg | Supramolecular and biochemical assembly |
| 81.16.Hc | Catalytic methods |
| 81.16.Mk | Laser-assisted deposition |
| 81.16.Nd | Micro- and nanolithography |
| 81.16.Pr | Micro- and nano-oxidation |
| 81.16.Rf | Micro- and nanoscale pattern formation |
| 81.16.Ta | Atom manipulation |
| 82. | Physical chemistry and chemical physics |
| 82.35.-x | Polymers: properties; reactions; polymerization |
| 82.35.Np | Nanoparticles in polymers |
| 82.37.-j | Single molecule kinetics |
| 82.37.Gk | STM and AFM manipulations of a single molecule |
| 82.37.Rs | Single molecule manipulation of proteins and other biological molecules |
| 82.45.-h | Electrochemistry and electrophoresis |
| 82.45.Yz | Nanostructured materials in electrochemistry |
| 82.60.-s | Chemical thermodynamics |
| 82.60.Qr | Thermodynamics of nanoparticles |
| 82.70.-y | Disperse systems; complex fluids |
| 82.70.Dd | Colloids |
| 85. | Electronic and magnetic devices; microelectronics |
| 85.35.-p | Nanoelectronic devices |
| 85.35.Be | Quantum well devices (quantum dots, quantum wires, etc.) |
| 85.35.Ds | Quantum interference devices |
| 85.35.Gv | Single electron devices |
| 85.35.Kt | Nanotube devices |
| 85.65.+h | Molecular electronic devices |
| 85.75.-d | Magnetoelectronics; spintronics: devices exploiting spin polarized transport or integrated magnetic fields |
| 85.75.Bb | Magnetic memory using giant magnetoresistance |
| 85.75.Dd | Magnetic memory using magnetic tunnel junctions |
| 85.75.Ff | Reprogrammable magnetic logic |
| 85.75.Hh | Spin polarized field effect transistors |
| 85.75.Mm | Spin polarized resonant tunnel junctions |
| 85.75.Nn | Hybrid Hall devices |
| 85.75.Ss | Magnetic field sensors using spin polarized transport |
| 85.85.+j | Micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) and devices |
| 87. | Biological and medical physics |
| 87.64.-t | Spectroscopic and microscopic techniques in biophysics and medical physics |
| 87.64.Dz | Scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopy |
| 87.64.Ee | Electron microscopy |
| 87.80.-y | Biophysical techniques (research methods) |
| 87.80.Ek | Mechanical and micromechanical techniques |
| 87.80.Fe | Micromanipulation of biological structures |
| 87.80.Nj | Single-molecule techniques |
| 87.85.-d | Biomedical engineering |
| 87.85.D- | Applied neuroscience |
| 87.85.dh | Cells on a chip |
| 87.85.J- | Biomaterials |
| 87.85.jf | Bio-based materials |
| 87.85.Ox | Biomedical instrumentation and transducers, including micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) |
| 87.85.Qr | Nanotechnologies-design |
| 87.85.Rs | Nanotechnologies-applications |
| 87.85.Uv | Micromanipulators |
| 87.85.Va | Micromachining |
| 88. | Renewable energy resources and applications |
| 88.30.R- | Hydrogen storage |
| 88.30.rh | Carbon nanotubes |