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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A lattice-shaped arrangement of structures with sizes in the nanometer range, such as quantum dots.
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- noun Any material whose
crystal structure is measured innanometers ; an individual crystal in such a material
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Examples
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In 2002, one company was manufacturing self-cleaning window glass; another made a nanocrystal wound dressing with antibiotic and anti-inflammatory properties.
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A new imaging technique developed by researchers at the University of Illinois overcomes the limit of diffraction and can reveal the atomic structure of a single nanocrystal with a resolution of less than one angstrom (less than one hundred-millionth of a centimeter).
Friday! aaronace 2009
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A couple of weeks ago and again last week, Wired featured a nanocrystal that can absorb carbon dioxide.
New Chernobyl 2008
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We conclude that the vast majority of the nanocrystal magnetites present in the carbonate disks could not have formed by any of the currently proposed thermal decomposition scenarios.
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A couple of weeks ago and again last week, Wired featured a nanocrystal that can absorb carbon dioxide.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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Their findings represent a key step towards the fabrication of functional nanocrystal-based devices and circuits.
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I shouldn't think it would be anything like as effective as the Egyptian nanocrystal dye because the recipe sounds like it would just be a surface pigment like modern hair dye, rather than forming by a chemical reaction right in the hair microstructure.
Ancient Egyptian hair dye - technology finally catches up Carla 2006
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A QCA is an atom or an ion (atom with an electric charge) trapped within a "nanocrystal cage" (a tiny cage made from the atoms of a semiconductor).
Honey, Who Shrank the Circuits? Lakshmi Sandhana 2002
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But at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., windows are the focus of some cutting-edge research in nanocrystal technology.
News 2011
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At the lab's Molecular Foundry, Delia Milliron is developing a smart window that can change based on the weather with the help of nanocrystal technology.
News 2011
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