How to Use nanostructure in a Sentence

nanostructure

noun

• Blue, on the other hand, is what is known as a structural color that is created by the interaction of light with tiny nanostructures in the wing.
  — Shaena Montanari, National Geographic, 30 June 2017
• Today, atoms, ions and laser beams are among the key components that create crisp images of the miniature world of cells, molecules and nanostructures.
  — Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2018
• The secret is blasting the exact right kind of nanostructure with the exact right kind of laser beam to cause a magnetizing implosion.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 14 Oct. 2020
• If, for example, light is polarized along the X axis, the nanostructures of the metasurface will direct the light to one section of the image sensor.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 May 2023
• Nanopillars are a type of nanostructure with a unique shape, tapering from a bottom pillar into a pointed top.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2020
• All the butterfly has to do to create its nanostructures is to combine some proteins together.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 18 Oct. 2017
• Here, the spiders rely on arrays of tiny nanostructures that reflect light of particular wavelengths.
  — National Geographic, 9 Aug. 2016
• By looking at frozen samples under an electron microscope, scientists were able to zero in on nanostructures in the alga’s cells that are about 1000 times smaller than a human hair is thick.
  — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 13 Apr. 2018
• Graphene is a super material and an allotrope of carbon that’s made up of a layer of atoms arranged in a two-dimensional honeycomb nanostructure.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
• Instead, Dahn’s team achieved its huge performance boosts through lots and lots of optimizing of those familiar ingredients, and tweaking the nanostructure of the battery’s cathode.
  — Wired, 23 Sep. 2019
• While pigments often fade, structural colors do not: As long as the nanostructure remains intact, the same structural color will shine on indefinitely.
  — Tomas Weber, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2022
• In new research, Johnsen and colleague Karen Osborn discovered how complex nanostructures in the fishes' skin trap incoming photons, absorbing almost all the light that touches them.
  — Sonke Johnsen, National Geographic, 18 Apr. 2018
• Dengue's surface pattern is complex, Wang adds, so DNA nanostructures must be molded into complicated geometric shapes to match.
  — Harini Barath, Scientific American, 14 Apr. 2020
• IBM's minuscule invention is only a little smaller than a more common information-bearing nanostructure: rhinovirus, the cause of the common cold.
  — Larry Smarr, WIRED, 1 June 2003
• Lieber’s strategy opened the door to making pristine nanostructures with simple and inexpensive chemical techniques.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 4 Feb. 2020
• The researchers also prepared their bone samples in an unconventional way aimed at keeping intricate nanostructures intact.
  — Angus Chen, Scientific American, 3 May 2018
• But inner egg layers have a different nanostructure, which has less osteopontin and lower density of mineral packing.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 5 Apr. 2018
• Based on their internal nanostructures, flavobacterium colonies naturally reflect a metallic green color.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 22 Feb. 2018
• Due to chemical interactions, those proteins automatically form into the right nanostructure.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 18 Oct. 2017

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