nanocomposite — Meaning, Usage & Examples

MEANING

A composite material containing a component or structural feature on the nanometer scale.

Use it for

a material strengthened by nanoscale additions; a coating with engineered small-scale structure; advanced composite surfaces; a designed mixture rather than a single substance

Words that belong together

a polymer nanocomposite
a nanocomposite coating
nanocomposite reinforcement

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The nanocomposite coating resisted scratches but failed where the panel had flexed.

Microscopy revealed how the reinforcing particles were distributed through the nanocomposite.

Related words

composite nanostructure reinforcement

Word forms

Base: nanocomposite

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Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular nanocomposite; plural nanocomposites; also uncountable as a material. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.

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