Seniors and Depression: The difference between depression and dementia. Depression is a mood disorder; dementias like Alzheimerâs disease, can have similar symptoms but they are different illnesses and have different treatment plans.
From a synthesis standpoint, nanotechnologies can be classified as variations of bottom-up technologies, such as self-assembly, or top-down technologies, such as lithographic methods (Box 1). Many nanotechnologies combine aspects of both strategies.
As nanotechnology became an accepted concept, the meaning of the word shifted to encompass the simpler kinds of nanometer-scale technology. The U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative was created to fund this kind of nanotech: their definition includes anything smaller than 100 nanometers with novel properties.