Iran is ranked 120th in the field of chemistry (2018). In 2007, Iranian scientists at the Medical Sciences and Technology Center succeeded in mass-producing an advanced scanning microscope—the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM). By 2017, Iran ranked 4th in ISI indexed nano-articles.StatNano Annual Report 2017, StatNano Publications, http://statnano.com/publications/4679 , March 2018. Iran has designed and mass-produced more than 35 kinds of advanced nanotechnology devices. These include laboratory equipment, antibacterial strings, power station filters and construction related equipment and materials.
