How to Use nanoscale in a Sentence

nanoscale

adjective
  • Those nanoscale hooks, when locked in, can bear loads reaching up to 20 grams.
    — Ars Technica, 27 Nov. 2024
  • But the sandpaper trick picked out nanoscale particles of each of the three.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Data is stored on that film in the form of a series of nanoscale indentations.
    — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Graphene is something of a celebrity in the world of nanoscale materials.
    — Andrew Maynard, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2018
  • But the nanoscale work of chipmaking is monotone only if your ears aren’t sharp enough to hear the symphony.
    — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
  • These layers are stacked together and imprinted, or stamped, with a nanoscale pattern of rods with curved ends.
    — Tomas Weber, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Their technique takes advantage of the bonds that form between atoms in a nanoscale channel of the new transistor.
    — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 3 Jan. 2024
  • In the new study, the researchers developed the first transformable nanoscale electronic devices.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2023
  • For the first time, researchers could actually see the nanoscale drama of influenza invading a cell.
    — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 12 Dec. 2025
  • This technique, called nanoimprint lithography, begins by casting a nanoscale stamp made of a silicon polymer.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2023
  • This special extra layer is a semiconductor sheet stamped with a two-dimensional array of nanoscale holes.
    — Susumu Noda, IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2024
  • The method can be easily scaled while preserving nanoscale optical precision.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Instead, a probe scans the sample and produces a topographical map of its surface with nanoscale resolution.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2018
  • Artificial nanoscale particles might prove a good trucking device.
    — Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2014
  • These single-function motors can generate forces on a surface, shuttle cargo to sensors and power nanoscale devices.
    — Rachel Berkowitz, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Soon, inexpensive tests will read the dense, nanoscale information within our cells, revealing what’s going on in our bodies.
    — Scott Penberthy, Scientific American, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Brinkert’s team created electrodes whose surfaces were bumpy rather than smooth at a nanoscale level and showed that gas bubbles don’t accumulate as much on the bumpier surfaces.
    — Erika K Carlson, Discover Magazine, 10 July 2018
  • The texture comes from nanoscale corrugations that the researches say can manipulate the way light resonates within each pixel.
    — Popular Science, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Careening through hairpin turns and racing down straightaways, light packets called photons travel the distance in this nanoscale photonic circuit.
    — Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2016
  • Even the symbolic stuff is instantiated in some material form or the other, whether as ink on pages or electrical charges in nanoscale pieces of silicon.
    — Scientific American, 13 May 2021
  • The nanoscale technology can be easily controlled—the nanostructures can be tweaked to adjust brightness, hue and the angles of reflection.
    — Tomas Weber, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The challenge for Sattari and his team was to design a nanoscale mechanism to control the coupling process as precisely and reliably as possible.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The defects don’t spread into the nanoscale ridges of III-V material grown on top of the trenches to make the active part of the nanoridge laser.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The spotlight has swept from trains to nanoscale engines, living cells' molecular motors and the smallest possible refrigerators.
    — Nicole Yunger Halpern, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2020
  • So as the material bends or flexes, electrical signals are created and transmitted in the nanoscale graphene, and then this is used to interpret the head position.
    — Alistair Charlton, WIRED, 16 Sep. 2024
  • In research described in the journal Nature Energy, the researchers peered into the nanoscale structure of these crystals with atomic force microcscopy.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 July 2016
  • Even those have only been able to achieve feature sizes on the order of several tens of micrometers, apart from one 2021 study that reported nanoscale resolution.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 July 2023
  • Some require a great deal of precision, such as hooking up quantum emitters—devices that emit single photons—with nanoscale structures capable of affecting their polarization.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Researchers can precisely position the nanoscale objects to ensure that the light that exits the metalens has selected characteristics.
    — Alberto Moscatelli, Scientific American, 1 July 2019
  • This method of temperature control uses nanoscale radiative heat transfer, and is part of a budding effort to apply nanotechnology to global challenges such as climate change.
    — Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2021

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