How to Use nanostructure in a Sentence

nanostructure

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Here, the spiders rely on arrays of tiny nanostructures that reflect light of particular wavelengths.
  — National Geographic, 9 Aug. 2016
• These nanostructures use a phenomenon called metasurface optics to direct and focus light.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 May 2023
• 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
• Moving forward, the team plans to experiment with carbide ceramic coatings in lieu of glass to make potentially even stronger nanostructures.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 26 July 2023
• 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
• The researchers also prepared their bone samples in an unconventional way aimed at keeping intricate nanostructures intact.
  — Angus Chen, Scientific American, 3 May 2018
• Lieber’s strategy opened the door to making pristine nanostructures with simple and inexpensive chemical techniques.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 4 Feb. 2020
• 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
• The films, inspired by how morpho butterflies create their vivid blue color with reflective scales, circumvent this with nanostructures that reflect light to produce color without heating up.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Due to chemical interactions, those proteins automatically form into the right nanostructure.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 18 Oct. 2017
• 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
• Prior to designing the spiky silicon, researchers studied the structural composition of cicada and dragonfly wings, which have evolved to feature similarly sharp nanostructures capable of skewering fungal spores and bacterial cells.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2024