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Those are tiny, membranous particles, ranging from 10 microns down to 20 nanometers, that exit cells and dwell in the spaces among them.
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New Atlas, 4 Jan. 2026
Stanford professor Srabanti Chowdhury explained how her team has come up with a way to grow diamonds inside ICs, mere nanometers from heat generating transistors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2025
Inside the smoke cloud, researchers detected aerosols roughly 500 nanometers wide — about twice the size of typical wildfire aerosols at lower altitudes.
—Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 16 Dec. 2025
Important applications in industry This is because the microstructure of the aerogel is something akin to a nanofiber network comprised of fibres around 250 nanometers thick.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 13 Dec. 2025
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New Atlas, 4 Jan. 2026
Stanford professor Srabanti Chowdhury explained how her team has come up with a way to grow diamonds inside ICs, mere nanometers from heat generating transistors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2025
Inside the smoke cloud, researchers detected aerosols roughly 500 nanometers wide — about twice the size of typical wildfire aerosols at lower altitudes.
—Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 16 Dec. 2025
Important applications in industry This is because the microstructure of the aerogel is something akin to a nanofiber network comprised of fibres around 250 nanometers thick.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 13 Dec. 2025
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“Nanometer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nanometer. Accessed 6 Jan. 2026.
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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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