| AZoNano
 What is AZoNano?
Who generates the AZoNano.com articles
and news content?
How is AZoNano.com funded?
Where is AZoNano.com based?
Experts
Who are the AZoNano.com experts?
How do I become an AZoNano.com
expert?
Do I get paid for being an AZoNano.com
expert?
I represent a Supplier of Nanotechnology;
can I become an AZoNano.com Expert?
Suppliers
How do I list my company alongside
AZoNano.com articles?
What are the benefits of listing
as a Key Supplier
Submitting Content
What form of content is suitable?
How do I benefit by submitting
content?
Searching AZoNano
How do I search AZoNano.com?
How does the application search
work?
How does the industry search work?
What is the idea behind the Article
and News check boxes?
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| What is AZoNano? |
| AZoNano.com is a knowledge tool that is
intended to provide the science, engineering and design community
worldwide with a continuously updating source of all the information
they need to make an informed decision on the implementation
or acquisition of nanotechnology.
Either through “static” mediums i.e. the knowledge
base of articles and news items or through “dynamic”
forms i.e. the community of experts.
Due to the collaborative publishing approach that has been
adopted, AZoNano.com is totally free to access and is focused
on the requirements of industrial end-users of Nanotechnology.
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| Who generates the AZoNano.com articles
and news content? |
| Although we have a team of “in
house” content generators and aggregators, our worldwide
network of AZoNano experts and partners also provide large
amounts of AZoNano’s content.
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| How is AZoNano.com funded? |
| AZoNano.com is financed by the site owner AZoM.com
Pty. Ltd. (Sydney, Australia).
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| Where is AZoNano.com based? |
| AZoNano.com operates out of offices in
Sydney Australia.
Please see the contact us page for further details.
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| Who are the AZoNano.com experts? |
| An AZoNano expert is someone with expertise
in a particular sector of Nanotechnology, who has demonstrated
to the AZoNano team that their Expert Status has been recognised
in some form by the wider scientific or industrial community.
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| How do I become an AZoNano.com expert? |
| If you feel you have something to add or
give to the Nanotechnology community then complete the on
line registration form. If at any stage you have any questions
not covered by the on-line form, feel free to contact us at
experts@azonano.com.
Once you have been registered as an AZoNano Expert your profile
will be listed alongside the technical articles that are relevant
to your area of expertise. You will then be one click away
from people who are interested in transferring your technology,
your expertise or services.
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| Do I get paid for being an AZoNano.com
expert? |
| In the true spirit of freedom of information,
openness and collaboration which AZoNano.com endeavours to
represent,
you decide if you get paid for being an AZoNano expert. What
this means is that once you become an AZoM Expert and we have
listed
your expert profile, you decide how you wish to be contacted
in relation to your area of expertise and if you want to be
paid for answering questions.
You can also decide how much or how little you want to charge
for your answers. As it is free for bona fide academic experts
to list with AZoNano.com, all we ask is that if you do charge
fees at the end of every quarter you forward to us 10% of
your gross Expert Fees. Alternatively, you can pay a $200
annual listing fee and then all your fee income is yours.
This is the mechanism that applies to non-academic, full time
consultants or industry experts, i.e. you pay a $200 listing
fee and then you decide if you want to charge anything for
your “expert services”.
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| I represent a Supplier of Nanotechnology;
can I become an AZoNano.com Expert? |
| Employees or the representatives of
Nanotechnology Related companies, consulting organisations
or similar bodies
can become AZoNano.com experts. Simply
complete the on-line registration form. The only cost
to you is the payment of a US$200 listing fee. Contact
us
for further details at experts@azonano.com.
Once you have been registered as an AZoNANO Expert your
profile
will be listed alongside the technical articles (up to three)
that are relevant to your area of expertise. You will then
be one click away from people who are interested in transferring
your technology, your expertise or services.
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| How do I list my company alongside
AZoNano.com articles? |
| It is very simple to list your company as
a key supplier or key service provider.
Conduct a few searches on AZoNano.com to view the types of
articles that relate to your technology, products or services.
Then send us an e-mail at listings@azonano.com
indicating the types of keywords you wish to use to ensure
AZoNano.com visitors find you.
We will then conduct a free of charge analysis for you to
provide you with complete listings of the content that relates
to your organisation and your selected keywords and the costs
involved for listing alongside 10, 20 or a specific number
of articles. Charges start at $85 per month for 10 articles
for a 12 month listing period.
Finally, we need to produce a supplier profile – a
mini-website on your organisation and your activities which
will run alongside all of your selected articles – you
simply provide a word document with this information or we
can build your supplier profile from your web site or company
brochure, again this is a free service.
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| What are the benefits of listing as
a Key Supplier? |
| AZoNano.com is a huge free access knowledge
resource of Nanotech related information, articles, case histories,
news, new product releases and technical briefs. As such it
is a very attractive destination for the millions of engineers,
scientists and designers who are online worldwide.
In addition, the novel search and keyword structure used
by AZoNano.com means that when a visitor is searching for
a solution to a problem they do not need to know anything
about Nanotechnology - they simply type into the applications
search box their application. The search results then reveal
educational and informative content with key suppliers and
service providers listed alongside.
Equally, end users can find Nanotech information that relates
specifically to their industry. For example, assume you are
a designer of medical devices and you wish to find out what
Nanotech related news has an impact on your industry sector.
Simply click the news tick box, input “medical”
in the industries search box and up comes news items which
relate to the medical device industry – as a supplier
you are then one click away from an enquiry.
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| What form of content is suitable? |
| Any form of content that will help to
educate the wider science, engineering and design community
of the benefits of using Nanotechnology is acceptable.
Typically this will be a review article that provides a little
background on a particular sector of Nanotechnology and then
concentrates on examples of typical applications. However,
AZoNano.com also welcomes shorter contributions, news items
or even photographs or graphics, which add to the AZoNano.com
content quality.
Please remember that AZoNano.com is heavily focused on providing
examples of how nanotechnology can be used and not the fundamental
science behind the technology.
To submit content either complete the on-line
submission form or forward it to us direct at editorial@azonano.com.
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| How do I benefit
by submitting content? |
| AZoNano.com has a very wide audience
reach of engineers, designers and scientists who use AZoNano.com
for very specific nanotech information search and retrieval.
Consequently, if you submit content to AZoNano.com you can
guarantee that unlike traditional print media, your article
will be seen by people who are directly interested in you
area of expertise or product. If you are a full time academic,
you can also offer to provide your consulting services by
listing for free as an AZoNano.com Expert alongside your article
or case history.
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| How do I search AZoNano.com? |
| AZoNano.com provides the site visitor
with a range of search options. These options include a global
search, which as the name suggests searches all content for
word matches on the headline text, the article summary, keywords
and tradenames. The search function also includes search boxes
for applications and industries. All of these search functions
can be used in conjunction with each other.
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| How does the application search work? |
| Every article or news story
that is within the AZoNano.com knowledge base is keyworded
in relation to the significant applications. This keywording
can never be exhaustive or complete but it is intended to
provide the site visitor with guidance on the major applications.
The applications search is intended to make it easy for the
non-nanotech specialist to find information on nanotech solutions
for their application or similar applications. To make it
even easier to find your application or an application similar
to the one you seek, we have also included a page that lists
the current real time list of all of the applications
currently covered on the site.
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| How does the industry search work? |
| The industry
search function is intended to allow site visitors to
locate materials information on materials that have a significant
impact in particular industry categories. The industry categorisation
is based on the US
Standard Industry Classification (SIC) system 1987, modified
to suit the nature of the AZoNano.com site. The structure
(detailed on the industry page) is also a hierarchical structure
in that one can search at increasingly detailed industry levels.
For example, two typical industry sectors are:
- Manufacturing, Industrial Machinery, General, Pumps, 3561
- Manufacturing, Industrial Machinery, General, Bearings,
3562
Typing into the industry box, “bearings” would
locate all content that has a significant impact on the “bearings”
industry sector. However, typing in “Industrial Machinery”
would find content in Pumps, Bearings and several other industry
sectors. Equally, the coding number at the end of the classification
can also be used as a short form mechanism for locating the
industry sector material information. A more detailed explanation
is provided on the industry
page.
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| What is the idea behind the Article
and News check boxes? |
| If you check the article box, your chosen
search parameters will focus on the encyclopaedia article
type of material information. Checking the News box only,
will focus the search on News and New Product information.
Obviously, checking both boxes will provide all information
available in Article and News formats.
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