ISO/TR TECHNICAL REPORT 14786 First edition 2014-02-01 Nanotechnologies Considerations for the development of chemical nomenclature for selected nano- objects NanotechnologiesConsiderations concernant ledeveloppementde lanomenclaturechimiquedenano-objetschoisis Reference number IS0/TR14786:2014(E) LSO CopyihtInternatinal Organization for Standardization @IS02014 without license from IHS Not for Resale IS0/TR14786:2014(E) COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT @ISO2014 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized otherwise in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, or posting on the internet or an intranet, without prior written permission. Permission can be requested from either ISO at the address below or ISO's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Case postale 56.CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 4122 749 0111 Fax +41 22 749 09 47 E-mail [email protected] Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland @ IS0 2014- All rights reserved No reproduction or networking permited without license from IHS Not for Resale IS0/TR14786:2014(E) Contents Page Foreword ..iv Introduction. ..V 1 Scope. ..1 2 Normative references ..1 3 Terms and definitions .1 4 Abbreviatedterms ..2 5 Nomenclature .3 5.1 Nomenclature defined .3 5.2 Chemical nomenclature .3 5.3 International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) chemical nomenclature 3 5.4 Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) chemical nomenclature 4 6 Chemical nomenclature systemsfor nano-objects and other relevant approaches ..4 7 Survey of nano-objects .5 7.1 General .5 7.2 Selection of public listings ofnano-objects ..6 7.3 Ranking of surveyed nano-objects. .7 7.4 Rankingresults. .8 8 Considerations for a nomenclature system for nano-objects .11 8.1 General .11 8.2 General considerationsforchemical nomenclaturefornano-objects .12 8.3 Features of interest reported throughIS0/TC 229 survey mechanism .12 8.4 Furtheridentificationanddiscussion ofkeyfeaturesof nano-objects 15 8.5 Illustrations of possible chemical nomenclature approaches for selected nano-objects... 15 8.6 Supplemental features of a chemical nomenclature system for nano-objects ..16 9 Coordination and timing ..19 AnnexA (informative)Generalnomenclaturesystems ..21 Annex B (informative) Selected nano-object-specific nomenclature systems .24 AnnexC (informative)Selectedpubliclistingsof nano-objects ..26 Bibliography .36 iii censefromIHS Not for Resale