Exploring the Possibilities and Limitations of a Nanomaterials Genome

The graphic art shows a Word Cloud depiction of the Nano World which considers how the whole human brain creates, stores and transforms concepts of Nanochemistry, assembling concepts of the Nanomaterials Genome in new ways and to useful products. As implied by this image, the letter size in the right brain reflects the frequency of the top 200-400 words presented in this Concept article in Small. Imagine merging these words and the associative images they evoke as cerebral hemispheric specializations are integrated enabling the realization of our intuitions, inventions and innovations. Word Cloud software has been created by wordle.net © IBM Corporation and Jonathan Feinberg. The rapid development of nanomaterials science and technology nowadays calls for a multifunctional data system, namely the Nanomaterials Genome. It is designed for intelligent and convenient categorizing, organizing, sifting, sorting, and integrating pertinent information about the known nanomaterials, and utilizing this information to explore the unknown in scientifically and technologically innovative ways, ultimately to benefit society. Inspired by work on the Human Genome project, which began in 1989 together with motivation from the recent emergence of the Materials Genome project initiated in 2011 and the Nanoinformatics Roadmap 2020 instigated in 2010, we envision the development of a Nanomaterials Genome (NMG) database and possible peripherals with the most advanced data-mining tools that leverage inference engines to help create, connect and interpret patterns of nanomaterials information. The NMG would enable the realization of our intuitions, inventions and innovations to be applied to the development of next generation energy materials for solar cells, fuel cells, batteries and supercapacitors and biomedical materials for diagnostics, therapeutics and imaging, organ, skin and bone replacement and repair.

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