How to Use nanoparticle in a Sentence

nanoparticle

noun
  • That nanoparticle with the spikes on top is the first part of the vaccine.
    — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 22 June 2020
  • Holding a nanoparticle this tightly in a single spot is just the start.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The second nanoparticle is clad in bits of proteins that bind to fibrin.
    — Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2011
  • The nanoparticles also seem to have a memory of their past states.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The color of the glass came from the nanoparticles of copper chloride.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The reason is that our spines are packed densely on the nanoparticle’s surface.
    — Scientific American, 25 Dec. 2019
  • Once released, terpenes react with ozone in the air and form nanoparticles.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Any substances near the nanoparticles are exposed to this focused light.
    — Andres B. Sanchez Alvarado, The Conversation, 27 Feb. 2026
  • More than 2,000 nanoparticles could fit inside of a red blood cell.
    — Erika Hayasaki, Newsweek, 21 July 2015
  • Though the dots’ glow eventually fades, the nanoparticles stick around for good.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 18 Dec. 2019
  • To form the nanoparticles, the team turned to advanced electron microscopy.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 3 June 2026
  • The scientists then put the spikes on top of a very small particle called a nanoparticle.
    — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 22 June 2020
  • Hsu and his team analyzed a class of dust nanoparticles in this outermost ring.
    — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 11 Mar. 2015
  • These are nanoparticles so small that their size controls their many properties, such as their color.
    — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2023
  • So Walls went back to work, designing a new and improved nanoparticle.
    — Rowan Jacobsen, Scientific American, 27 June 2021
  • The paint consists of tiny aluminum flakes dotted with even tinier aluminum nanoparticles.
    — WIRED, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Now, a new nanoparticle infusion therapy has been found to break down these plaques safely in tests in pigs.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 14 Oct. 2024
  • To this end, the team worked to create especially tiny nanoparticles.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Sep. 2019
  • According to them, the deepest parts of the lungs get the highest dose of these nanoparticles when inhaled.
    — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The key invention in the case is the arrangement of four lipids that make up the shell of the vaccine’s nanoparticle.
    — Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Magnets are then used to heat the nanoparticles to high temperatures, killing the cancer cells.
    — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The ionizable cationic lipid is the linchpin of a nanoparticle.
    — Christopher Rowland, Anchorage Daily News, 16 June 2021
  • The gold came in the form of either a solution of gold chloride ions or a suspension of gold nanoparticles.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The metal nanoparticles needed just one hundredth of a second.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026
  • To solve this problem, a group of researchers used a nanoparticle that was doped with ytterbium (a rare-earth metal).
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2018
  • Because the nanoparticles don’t enter healthy cells, those cells remain unharmed.
    — New Atlas, 3 Jan. 2026
  • This process occurs only when the pollutant is close to the nanoparticles’ surface.
    — Andres B. Sanchez Alvarado, The Conversation, 27 Feb. 2026
  • When researchers shine near-infrared light onto the skin, the nanoparticles emit visible light.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 25 May 2026
  • If the expansion is strong enough, the nanoparticle will boil the water around it and create vapor bubbles.
    — Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The liquid sits on a microscope slide like a small puddle with a canal running through it, propped up by a nanoparticle membrane.
    — Wired, 9 Sep. 2019

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