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nanomaterial

American  
[na-noh-muh-teer-ee-uhl] / ˈnæ noʊ məˌtɪər i əl /

noun

nanomaterials plural
  1. Engineering. any material that is made using nanotechnology or whose individual units are nanoscale in size.


nanomaterial British  
/ ˈnænəʊməˌtɪərɪəl /

noun

  1. any material that has an average particle size of between 1 and 100 nanometres

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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A newly developed nanomaterial that mimics the behavior of proteins could be an effective tool for treating Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.

From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2024

Noah Stocek, a PhD student collaborating with Western University physicist Giovanni Fanchini, has developed a new nanomaterial that demonstrates the opposite of this phenomenon.

From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2024

The researchers used a fluorescent surfactant, i.e. glowing soap, to tag the nanomaterial samples and render their motion visible.

From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2024

By leveraging a document-retrieval method, Yager's bot is knowledgeable in areas of nanomaterial science that other bots are not.

From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2023

She makes a sharp left into a lab where her nanomaterial collection bags are already stacked on her lab table.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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