nanoscience
noun
nano·sci·ence
ˈna-nō-ˌsī-ən(t)s 
: any branch or application of science that investigates objects, processes, and phenomena that operate on the scale of nanometers
Single-particle imaging of structures has become a powerful methodology in nanoscience and molecular and cell biology.—
Aycan Yurtsever et al.
Aycan Yurtsever et al.Nanoscience might well solve problems of scarcity and of environmental degradation.—James Traub
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James TraubExamples of nanoscience in a Sentence
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According to Ronald Hanson, a professor of nanoscience at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, Cisco’s work is a key next step.
—Margo Anderson, IEEE Spectrum, 9 Oct. 2025
Lieber, 64, is a leader in the field of nanoscience and has since retired after three decades at the school.
—Hadriana Lowenkron, Bloomberg.com, 26 Apr. 2023
The researchers in his nanoscience lab at the University of Central Florida had already worked out the kinks in the high-end machinery needed to create a revolutionary new kind of cooling paint.
—WIRED, 22 Mar. 2023
Excitement around carbon nanoscience was cranked still higher when three of the discoverers of buckyballs, Robert Curl, Harold Kroto and Richard Smalley, received the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
—James R. Riordon, Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2022
The Kavli Prize honors scientists for breakthroughs in astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience — transforming our understanding of the big, the small and the complex.
—Scientific American Custom Media, Scientific American, 29 July 2022
The Kavli Prizes, considered Nobel predictors along with the Lasker and Gairdner prizes, are awarded every two years in astrophysics and nanoscience as well as neuroscience.
—Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 3 June 2022
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Margo Anderson, IEEE Spectrum, 9 Oct. 2025
Lieber, 64, is a leader in the field of nanoscience and has since retired after three decades at the school.
—Hadriana Lowenkron, Bloomberg.com, 26 Apr. 2023
The researchers in his nanoscience lab at the University of Central Florida had already worked out the kinks in the high-end machinery needed to create a revolutionary new kind of cooling paint.
—WIRED, 22 Mar. 2023
Excitement around carbon nanoscience was cranked still higher when three of the discoverers of buckyballs, Robert Curl, Harold Kroto and Richard Smalley, received the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
—James R. Riordon, Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2022
The Kavli Prize honors scientists for breakthroughs in astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience — transforming our understanding of the big, the small and the complex.
—Scientific American Custom Media, Scientific American, 29 July 2022
The Kavli Prizes, considered Nobel predictors along with the Lasker and Gairdner prizes, are awarded every two years in astrophysics and nanoscience as well as neuroscience.
—Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 3 June 2022
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“Nanoscience.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nanoscience. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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