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
  • The color of the glass came from the nanoparticles of copper chloride.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • Lipid nanoparticle is a fancy name for tiny ball of fat.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 18 June 2021
  • The difference is that current gold nanoparticles are 3D and the atoms comprise the bulk.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The reason is that our spines are packed densely on the nanoparticle’s surface.
    Scientific American, 25 Dec. 2019
  • The scientists then put the spikes on top of a very small particle called a nanoparticle.
    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 mRNA is wrapped in a lipid nanoparticle that protects it from breaking down.
    Hal Dardick, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Though the dots’ glow eventually fades, the nanoparticles stick around for good.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Mullin: Their vaccine is known as a spike ferritin nanoparticle, or SpFN for short.
    Emily Mullin, Scientific American, 9 June 2021
  • The ionizable cationic lipid is the linchpin of a nanoparticle.
    Christopher Rowland, Anchorage Daily News, 16 June 2021
  • So Walls went back to work, designing a new and improved nanoparticle.
    Rowan Jacobsen, Scientific American, 27 June 2021
  • Naik says the Japanese team chose the right material and nanoparticle size to achieve this feat.
    IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2022
  • If the expansion is strong enough, the nanoparticle will boil the water around it and create vapor bubbles.
    Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • To get a naked strand of mRNA inside a cell, scientists have learned to encase it in a package called a lipid nanoparticle.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The team created nanoparticles that were 5, 2 and 1.4 nanometers wide.
    Quanta Magazine, 3 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • To this end, the team worked to create especially tiny nanoparticles.
    Quanta Magazine, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The nanoparticles bound to the photoreceptors of the mice's eyes and provided night vision for up to 10 weeks without any ill effects.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 Sep. 2019
  • With a slight dip in temperature, the polymer becomes a liquid, which soaks into the wood and carries the nanoparticles with it.
    Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2018
  • The paint consists of tiny aluminum flakes dotted with even tinier aluminum nanoparticles.
    WIRED, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Some of the iron powder inevitably evaporates to form iron-oxide nanoparticles that cannot be collected and turned back to iron.
    IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2023
  • These are nanoparticles so small that their size controls their many properties, such as their color.
    Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2023
  • One of our favorite features of the Eva NYC flat iron is the nano silk plates, which use negative ions and ceramic nanoparticles to smooth the hair without snagging.
    People Staff, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The goal is to detect cannabinoid molecules in saliva or breath droplets, using light and nanoparticles.
    Carla K. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Gold nanoparticles are safe for the body and chemically stable.
    Angela Chen, The Verge, 18 May 2018
  • Those detailed measurements helped Corr and her team custom design nanoparticles for the task.
    Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2018
  • The spirals keep their shape because the printer injects nanoparticles in with it, which form an extremely thin membrane around the structure.
    Wired, 9 Sep. 2019

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