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nanosheet

nanosheet noun: a nanoscale sheet, especially one of many making up a nanostructure.

Noun

nanosheet (plural nanosheets)

  1. A nanoscale sheet, especially one of many making up a nanostructure.
    • The nanosheet of gold forms when a confinement chemical is added to chloroauric acid containing gold and water. […] Because the nanosheets are so thin, just about every gold atom plays a part in the catalysis,” said Stephen Evans, study author and head of the University of Leeds’ Molecular and...2019 August 6, Ashley Strickland, “Scientists just created the world’s thinnest gold and it’s two atoms thick”, in CNN

Forms of nanosheet

pluralnanosheets

Origin of nanosheet

From nano- + sheet.

Questions about nanosheet

What does nanosheet mean?
Nanosheet means a nanoscale sheet, especially one of many making up a nanostructure.
What part of speech is nanosheet?
Nanosheet is a noun.
What is the plural of nanosheet?
The plural of nanosheet is nanosheets.

Words near nanosheet in the dictionary

  1. nanosensors
  2. nanoseparation
  3. nanoseparations
  4. nanosequencing
  5. Nanoses
  6. nanosheet
  7. nanosheets
  8. nanoshell
  9. nanoshells
  10. nanoshuttle
  11. nanoshuttles

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