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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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The new electrodes combine MXene, a highly conductive two-dimensional nanomaterial developed by Drexel researchers in 2011, with silver nanowires.

From Science Daily Jan. 15, 2026

Soon, the Johnsons and Gianneschi were discussing the possibility of the UW-Madison lab providing mouse model brain cells needed to test Gianneschi's protein-like nanomaterial.

From Science Daily Apr. 25, 2024

The nanomaterial alters the interaction between two key proteins in brain cells -- with a potentially powerful therapeutic effect.

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

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

"Electrons are the lightest players in the plasma, but when they become magnetized, they dictate the rules. That simple change can completely alter how nanomaterials form."

From Science Daily Jan. 31, 2026

"When we looked deeper into how our bioactive nanomaterials were helping tissue repair, SerpinB3, a protein originally implicated in cancer, jumped at us as a key factor that correlated with nanomaterial-driven wound healing," Rege said.

From Science Daily Nov. 17, 2025

Hybrid nanostructures between biomolecules and inorganic nanomaterials constitute a largely unexplored field of research, with the potential for novel applications in bioimaging, biosensing, and nanomedicine.

From Science Daily Nov. 18, 2024

But despite its science fiction trappings, the show is often based in real — and complex — scientific concepts, whether string theory or nanomaterials.

From New York Times Mar. 30, 2024

Together they imagined how nanomaterials that don’t yet exist — or exist only in minute quantities in carefully controlled lab conditions — could be deployed.

From New York Times Mar. 29, 2024

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