How to Use nanostructure in a Sentence
nanostructure
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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
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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
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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
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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
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All the butterfly has to do to create its nanostructures is to combine some proteins together.
—Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 18 Oct. 2017
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Here, the spiders rely on arrays of tiny nanostructures that reflect light of particular wavelengths.
—National Geographic, 9 Aug. 2016
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Lieber’s strategy opened the door to making pristine nanostructures with simple and inexpensive chemical techniques.
—Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 4 Feb. 2020
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The researchers also prepared their bone samples in an unconventional way aimed at keeping intricate nanostructures intact.
—Angus Chen, Scientific American, 3 May 2018
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But inner egg layers have a different nanostructure, which has less osteopontin and lower density of mineral packing.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 5 Apr. 2018
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Based on their internal nanostructures, flavobacterium colonies naturally reflect a metallic green color.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 22 Feb. 2018
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Due to chemical interactions, those proteins automatically form into the right nanostructure.
—Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 18 Oct. 2017
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