nanostructure

English

From nano- +‎ structure.

nanostructure (plural nanostructures)

Any manufactured or natural structure having a scale between molecular and microscopic.
- 2015 August 28, Tran Thanh Tung et al., “Core-shell nanostructured hybrid composites for volatile organic compound detection”, in International Journal of Nanomedicine‎^[1], volume 10, →DOI:
  We demonstrated a chemiresistive sensor based on core-shell hybridized nanostructures of Fe 3 O 4 and PEDOT for the efficient detection of VOC biomarkers.
- 2016, S. Hamed Shams Mousavi, Sajanlal R. Panikkanvalappil, Mostafa A. El-Sayed, Ali A. Eftekhar, Ali Adibi, “Large Enhancement of Circular Dichroism Using an Embossed Chiral Metamaterial”, in arXiv‎^[2]:
  In the close vicinity of a chiral nanostructure, the circular dichroism of a biomolecule could be greatly enhanced, due to the interaction with the local superchiral fields.