Sentence examples for larger materials from inspiring English sources

One of these is nanomaterials, which are substances that are made up of tiny (nanoscale) particles, or larger materials that have tiny (nanoscale) features.

Microbeads should be discontinued by 2020, it said, while noting that the "vast majority" of small plastic particles in the sea are produced by the breakdown of larger materials.

Molecules with a size smaller than the mesh size of the hydrogel can diffuse into a gold nanoparticle-encapsulated hydrogel, whereas larger materials are excluded.

NPs are more reactive than larger materials and offer larger sorption surface areas, thus allowing for faster and more efficient adsorption (Waychunas and Zhang 2008).

In top-down approaches, ENM are made from larger materials through milling; in bottom-up approaches, ENM are synthesized from atoms, ions, or molecules in a chemical reaction.

In the focus of the risk discussion about nanotechnology are the engineered nanomaterials (ENM) because they can show - compared to larger materials - different properties and reactivity.

Clastic material over most of a lake basin consists principally of silts and clays, especially away from shores and river mouths, where larger material is deposited.

The exhibition tries to see beer not simply as a beverage but as something that is part of a larger material system.

The ordinarily gentle slope causes the larger material to be dropped nearest the glacier, while the smaller grain sizes are spread over greater distances.

Collisions turn larger material into dust, some of which then rains down on to the white dwarf.

Curiosity then deposited the sample inside of its body and sifted out the larger material using what Grotzinger describes as "tai-chi-like motions that allow the powder to pass through the sieve".