nanoprobe
Minuscule diagnostic device
A nanoprobe is an extremely small device or instrument designed to examine or manipulate matter at the nanoscale—billionths of a meter.
In science fiction, particularly Star Trek, nanoprobes are microscopic machines injected into organisms to monitor, repair, or assimilate them.
In actual research, nanoprobes are tools for studying cellular structures, delivering drugs, or measuring electrical activity in tissues: Researchers used nanoprobes to map neural pathways.
Instrument for viewing minute objects
- sensorInput-detecting device
- detectorDevice that senses
- instrumentDevice for specific tasks
- STMNanoscale surface scanner
measurement · laboratory · analysis · characterization · surface · electron · scanning · imaging
Identification of illness
- biopsyTissue sample for diagnosis
- imagingProducing visual representations
- drug-deliveryAdministering medicine to body
- biosensorBiological chemical detection device
catheter · endoscopy · cellular · bloodstream · tissue · biocompatible · implant · therapy
Cybernetic collective species
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
- replicatorThing that duplicates
- naniteMolecule-sized autonomous machine
- swarmMass of moving insects
alien · cybernetic · implant · microscopic · invasion · self-replicating · voyager · spacecraft
Ultrasmall engineered matter
- nanofabricationCreating nanometer-scale structures
- nanoparticlesUltrafine material fragments
- nanoelectronicsCircuitry at billionth-meter dimensions
- nanotubeNanoscale carbon cylinder
nanowire · nanocomposite · graphene · fullerene · molecular · atomic · self-assembly · miniaturization
microscope
Instrument for viewing minute objects
- sensorInput-detecting device
- detectorDevice that senses
- instrumentDevice for specific tasks
STM · measurement · laboratory · analysis · characterization · surface · electron · scanning · imaging · spectroscopy
diagnosis
Identification of illness
- biopsyTissue sample for diagnosis
- imagingProducing visual representations
- drug-deliveryAdministering medicine to body
biosensor · catheter · endoscopy · cellular · bloodstream · tissue · biocompatible · implant · therapy · oncology
Borg
Cybernetic collective species
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
- replicatorThing that duplicates
- naniteMolecule-sized autonomous machine
swarm · alien · cybernetic · implant · microscopic · invasion · self-replicating · voyager · spacecraft · extraterrestrial
nanomaterials
Ultrasmall engineered matter
- nanofabricationCreating nanometer-scale structures
- nanoparticlesUltrafine material fragments
- nanoelectronicsCircuitry at billionth-meter dimensions
nanotube · nanowire · nanocomposite · graphene · fullerene · molecular · atomic · self-assembly · miniaturization · microscopy
- Nanotechnanotube, nanowire, nanostructure, nanomaterial, nanotech
- Borgcollective, cube, hive mind, nanoprobes, resistance is futile
- lab reagentsreagent, buffer, buffers, formalin, pyridine
- nanobotsnanobot, nanobots, nanorobot, nanite, nanites
- nanoscience toolsSTM, SEM, scanning electron microscope, electron microscope, cantilever
- Probes
nanoprobetelescope
Instrument magnifying faraway objects
drilling rig · excavator · heavy equipment · heavy machinery · earth mover
nano, probe, nanometer, nanotechnology, nanoparticle, nanoscale, nanosecond, probed, probing