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To accomplish this, experts first create extremely tiny holes only a few nanometers wide in the bacteria’s cell membrane.
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2024
Using their new technique, the scientists fabricated wires 44 nanometers to 1 micron wide, and transistors and diodes nanoscale to microscale in size.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Dec. 2024
CNTs are about a nanometer in diameter, and electrons sail through them.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Dec. 2024
Another way to think about it: if a nanometer were the size of a marble, a micron would be the size of a basketball.
—John Koetsier, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2024
Using their new technique, the scientists fabricated wires 44 nanometers to 1 micron wide, and transistors and diodes nanoscale to microscale in size.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Dec. 2024
CNTs are about a nanometer in diameter, and electrons sail through them.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Dec. 2024
Another way to think about it: if a nanometer were the size of a marble, a micron would be the size of a basketball.
—John Koetsier, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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“Nanometer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nanometer. Accessed 6 Jan. 2025.
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nanometer
noun
nano·me·ter
variants
or chiefly British nanometre
: one billionth of a meter
—abbreviation nm
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