---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 7509"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "7509"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/7509"
units:
  - "Chapter 101 — Nanotechnology Research and Development"
---

# §7509. Definitions


In this chapter:

- (1) **Advisory Panel—** The term “Advisory Panel” means the President’s National [Nanotechnology](#2) Advisory Panel established or designated under [section 7503 of this title](/usc/15/7503.md).
- (2) **Nanotechnology—** The term “nanotechnology” means the science and technology that will enable one to understand, measure, manipulate, and manufacture at the atomic, molecular, and supramolecular levels, aimed at creating materials, [devices](/usc/15/55.md?p=d), and systems with fundamentally new molecular organization, properties, and functions.
- (3) **Program—** The term “Program” means the National [Nanotechnology](#2) Program established under [section 7501 of this title](/usc/15/7501.md).
- (4) **Council—** The term “Council” means the National Science and Technology Council or an appropriate subgroup designated by the Council under [section 7501(c) of this title](/usc/15/7501.md?p=c).
- (5) **Advanced technology user facility—** The term “advanced technology user facility” means a [nanotechnology](#2) research and development facility supported, in whole or in part, by Federal funds that is open to all United States researchers on a competitive, merit-reviewed basis.
- (6) **Program component area—** The term “program component area” means a major subject area established under [section 7501(c)(2) of this title](/usc/15/7501.md?p=c-2) under which is[^1] grouped related individual projects and activities carried out under the [Program](#3).

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “are”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 108–153, § 10, Dec. 3, 2003, 117 Stat. 1931.)