How to Use nanoscale in a Sentence

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• But the sandpaper trick picked out nanoscale particles of each of the three.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Jan. 2024
• Graphene is something of a celebrity in the world of nanoscale materials.
  — Andrew Maynard, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2018
• But the nanoscale work of chipmaking is monotone only if your ears aren’t sharp enough to hear the symphony.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
• Their technique takes advantage of the bonds that form between atoms in a nanoscale channel of the new transistor.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 3 Jan. 2024
• In the new study, the researchers developed the first transformable nanoscale electronic devices.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2023
• These layers are stacked together and imprinted, or stamped, with a nanoscale pattern of rods with curved ends.
  — Tomas Weber, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2022
• To condense a complex device into a size that could be installed on a chip, the team had to figure out how to cram a huge amount of directed light into a nanoscale area.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2020
• Knowing the nanoscale structure of the egg could lead to new types of materials, says Lara Estroff, a Cornell engineer who was not involved in the study, Hamers reports.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 5 Apr. 2018
• Instead, a probe scans the sample and produces a topographical map of its surface with nanoscale resolution.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2018
• The challenge for Sattari and his team was to design a nanoscale mechanism to control the coupling process as precisely and reliably as possible.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Jan. 2023
• Enlarge / SEM image of a nanoscale snowflake self-assembled from zinc dissolved in a liquid gallium solvent.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 Dec. 2022
• Brinkert’s team created electrodes whose surfaces were bumpy rather than smooth at a nanoscale level and showed that gas bubbles don’t accumulate as much on the bumpier surfaces.
  — Erika K Carlson, Discover Magazine, 10 July 2018
• The nanoscale technology can be easily controlled—the nanostructures can be tweaked to adjust brightness, hue and the angles of reflection.
  — Tomas Weber, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2022
• This technique, called nanoimprint lithography, begins by casting a nanoscale stamp made of a silicon polymer.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2023
• The latter’s interest stems from the intricate nanoscale protein structures that are layered within the wings: their shapes act like prisms, reflecting a stunning cerulean color.
  — Meg Wilcox, Scientific American, 13 Nov. 2020
• The texture comes from nanoscale corrugations that the researches say can manipulate the way light resonates within each pixel.
  — Popular Science, 26 Oct. 2020
• Even those have only been able to achieve feature sizes on the order of several tens of micrometers, apart from one 2021 study that reported nanoscale resolution.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 July 2023
• Even the symbolic stuff is instantiated in some material form or the other, whether as ink on pages or electrical charges in nanoscale pieces of silicon.
  — Scientific American, 13 May 2021
• Soon, inexpensive tests will read the dense, nanoscale information within our cells, revealing what’s going on in our bodies.
  — Scott Penberthy, Scientific American, 7 Dec. 2022
• In a new study, silkworms were fed nanoscale crystals called quantum dots that gave the insects' bodies, silk, eggs and cocoons a rosy glow under ultraviolet light, reports Alex Wilkins for New Scientist.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2022
• These single-function motors can generate forces on a surface, shuttle cargo to sensors and power nanoscale devices.
  — Rachel Berkowitz, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2022
• Careening through hairpin turns and racing down straightaways, light packets called photons travel the distance in this nanoscale photonic circuit.
  — Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2016
• The Christmas record was simply a fun holiday project for postdoc Nolan Lassaline to demonstrate the capability of shaping a surface with nanoscale precision.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2022
• The method can be easily scaled while preserving nanoscale optical precision.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2022
• By reinforcing the rigid crystalline structures in an elastic polyurethane with thin, flat, nanoscale clay platelets, researchers produced a material that is 20 times as stiff, 4 times as tough, and can handle temperatures more than twice as high.
  — Mark Durham, WIRED, 30 Jan. 2007
• The spotlight has swept from trains to nanoscale engines, living cells' molecular motors and the smallest possible refrigerators.
  — Nicole Yunger Halpern, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2020
• Artificial nanoscale particles might prove a good trucking device.
  — Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2014
• By using different types of electron microscopy along with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry, the researchers determined what they were made of.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2023
• Jihad, who had a cancer scare in 2013, is studying biomolecular science at New York University and has worked in a lab to develop breast cancer treatments using magnetic, nanoscale particles.
  — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2017
• Researchers can precisely position the nanoscale objects to ensure that the light that exits the metalens has selected characteristics.
  — Alberto Moscatelli, Scientific American, 1 July 2019

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024