B82Y SPECIFIC USES OR APPLICATIONS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MEASUREMENT OR ANALYSIS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF NANOSTRUCTURES
Introduced: January 2011
Classification Context
- Section:
- PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- Class:
- NANOTECHNOLOGY
- Subclass:
- SPECIFIC USES OR APPLICATIONS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MEASUREMENT OR ANALYSIS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF NANOSTRUCTURES
Description
B82Y covers the practical application, characterization, and processing of nanostructures across diverse industrial and scientific domains. This subclass encompasses devices and methods utilizing nanoparticles, nanofibers, nanotubes, and other nanoscale materials in electronics, medicine, catalysis, energy storage, and environmental remediation. It includes techniques for measuring nanostructure properties, analyzing their behavior, and manufacturing or treating them through chemical, physical, or mechanical means. Adjacent class B82B addresses foundational nanotechnology principles, while B82Y focuses on the downstream realization of nanostructures in specific functional applications.
Additional Content
Nanocapsules for medicinal preparations Langmuir-Blodgett films Carbon nanostructures, e.g. bucky-balls, nanotubes, nanocoils, nanodoughnuts or nanoonions Scanning probe techniques Optical quantum wells or boxes Nanostructured thin magnetic films Molecular beam epitaxy [MBE] Quantum wire FETs
Related Keywords
9 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- B82Y 10/00 Nanotechnology for information processing, storage or transmission, e.g. quantum computing or single electron logic
- B82Y 15/00 Nanotechnology for interacting, sensing or actuating, e.g. quantum dots as markers in protein assays or molecular motors
- B82Y 20/00 Nanooptics, e.g. quantum optics or photonic crystals
- B82Y 25/00 Nanomagnetism, e.g. magnetoimpedance, anisotropic magnetoresistance, giant magnetoresistance or tunneling magnetoresistance
- B82Y 30/00 Nanotechnology for materials or surface science, e.g. nanocomposites
- B82Y 35/00 Methods or apparatus for measurement or analysis of nanostructures
- B82Y 40/00 Manufacture or treatment of nanostructures
- B82Y 5/00 Nanobiotechnology or nanomedicine, e.g. protein engineering or drug delivery
- B82Y 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class B82, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 3,032
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 711
- ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY 703
- SHAANXI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 641
- IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 620
- TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY 546
- JILIN UNIVERSITY 544
- SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY 525
- TIANJIN UNIVERSITY 524
- UNIVERSITY OF JINAN 521