How to Use microstructure in a Sentence

microstructure

noun

• Steel, although hard overall, varies in hardness throughout its microstructure.
  — Meagan Cantwell, Science | AAAS, 12 Aug. 2020
• This method gave further insights into the armor’s microstructure.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Feb. 2025
• There, the microstructures don't have the characteristics of the ultra-black plumage.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2018
• Mantis shrimp have a super tough armor made of an impact-resistant microstructure.
  — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian, 13 July 2019
• All are similar in arrangement and microstructure to modern birds.
  — Ryan C. McKellar, National Geographic, 28 June 2016
• Neither result has been overturned; both are textbook market microstructure.
  — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
• Blue feathers also get their color from microstructures, since digestion destroys blue pigments in birds.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2018
• The researchers suggest the specimen is an adult that had not yet fully matured -- about 19 years old, based on its bone microstructure.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2025
• The dissolving microstructures are able to do the same thing without actually damaging the skin.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 19 July 2018
• Researchers are using specialized x-rays to study the microstructures of the skull in hopes of making better helmets for the military.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2019
• The researchers also found this scattering microstructure in the photon-eating black feathers that surround the patch of color.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 30 Apr. 2021
• The researchers now aim to further optimize the electrode microstructure to speed lithium-ion transport and reduce charging times.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 19 Feb. 2026
• 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
• In the female velvet ant, these microstructures include overlapping stacks of lamellae, or layers of tissue, beneath dense, hair-like setae.
  — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
• Once the feathers began to slide too far apart, tiny microstructures that stick out like hooks on top of one feather meet a set of ridges on the underside of the other feather, locking them into place.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 21 Jan. 2020
• These materials spread impact around and dissipate energy in an ideal way for the microstructure needed in a body armor design.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2022
• These microstructures are composed of overlapping stacks or layers of tissue, resembling the pages of a book, underlying dense, hair-like setae.
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
• That creates a stronger microstructure, which allows lighter, thinner castings with superior crash absorption.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2016
• Bright colors and iridescence in birds, butterflies and some other insects depend on how layers of different microstructures are combined.
  — Tom Siegfried, Discover Magazine, 17 July 2024
• The microstructure of display feathers, especially tail streamers, may also be more finely tuned than previously thought.
  — Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
• Ablation casting uses water to blast sand from molds, quickly cooling the molten aluminum for a stronger microstructure and superior crash performance.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2016
• Based on their bone microstructure and growth patterns, phorusrhacids didn’t possess the physiology of island birds or ecological relics.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
• New fiber designs use novel core microstructures, such as photonic crystals, to constrain the light to follow the same path through cores with up to about twice the cross-sectional area as the standard 9-µm fiber.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Jan. 2016
• Later studies generally kept attributing those bones to dinosaurs but pointed out things like an unusual microstructure that was difficult to explain.
  — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2024
• This hybrid result came from the combination of two conventional methods of microstructure formation.
  — Sylvia Morrow, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2017
• For example, the paper shows that there will be permanent changes in the microstructure of cementum in someone who has suffered systemic illness, and this can be accurately dated.
  — Jack Guy, CNN, 25 Mar. 2020
• Until now, combining such materials with complex 3D microstructures remained out of reach.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026
• Scientists analyzed one of the beads in 2013 and found that its microstructure and composition were very similar to that of an iron meteorite.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2022
• Its outer feathers are waterproof because of an interlocking microstructure that the duck constantly fusses over, tidying the feathers and distributing preen oil from a gland near its tail.
  — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2020
• Put simply, dolphin skin has a flexible microstructure that, combined with mucus excretions, is able to alter itself as Flipper swims at different speeds.
  — David Szondy, New Atlas, 18 July 2024