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Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, also known as Nanny McPhee Returns, is a 2010 family fantasy-comedy film directed by Susanna White, written by and starring Emma Thompson.
Nanny of the Maroons
Nanny of the Maroons (Granny Nanny), Ashante-born 18th-century leader of Jamaica's Windward Maroons at Nanny Town, fought the British in the First Maroon War (1720-1739); Jamaica's only female National Hero (1982), on the $500 note.
nano (musician)
nano (ナノ) is a Japanese-American bilingual singer from New York State who debuted in 2012 with the album nanoir and sings anime theme songs in English and Japanese.
Nano Banana Pro
Nano Banana Pro, officially named Gemini 3 Pro Image, is an image generation and editing model released by Google in November 2025, built on Gemini 3 Pro.
Nano differential scanning fluorimetry
Nano differential scanning fluorimetry (nanoDSF) is a label-free biophysical method that measures protein thermal stability by intrinsic tryptophan or tyrosine fluorescence, without dyes, in microliter capillaries.
Nano letters
Nano Letters (Nano Lett), ACS monthly peer-reviewed journal since 2001 for short communications in nanoscience and nanotechnology; ISSN 1530-6984/1530-6992, editor-in-chief Teri W. Odom, distinct from Micro & Nano Letters and Nano-Micro Letters.
Nano liquid chromatography
Nano liquid chromatography is a miniaturized form of high-performance liquid chromatography that separates tiny samples on 10–150 μm capillary columns at nanoliter-per-minute flow rates, used mainly for bottom-up proteomics.
Nano-
Nano- is the SI prefix for 10⁻⁹, one billionth of a unit, with the symbol n. Adopted in 1947, it entered the SI prefix system in 1960.
Nano-computed tomography
Nano-computed tomography (nano-CT) is a nondestructive X-ray tomography technique that resolves sample interiors at sub-micrometer to nanometer resolution, down to about 50 nm in laboratory instruments, and is used on materials, batteries, bone, and archaeological samples.
Nano-FTIR
Nano-FTIR is a near-field infrared spectroscopy technique combining scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy with FTIR spectroscopy, measuring infrared absorption and chemical composition with nanoscale resolution set by an AFM tip, typically 10–30 nm.
Nano-SQUID on a tip
The nano-SQUID on a tip (SOT) is a superconducting quantum interference device fabricated on a quartz pipette apex, developed at the Weizmann Institute in 2010.
Nanoarchaeota
Nanoarchaeota is a phylum of very small, genome-reduced archaea, established in 2002 after Nanoarchaeum equitans was found attached to an Ignicoccus host at a submarine hot vent off Iceland.
Nanoarchaeum equitans
Nanoarchaeum equitans, type species of the Nanoarchaeota, is a 400 nm hyperthermophilic archaeal parasite of Ignicoccus hospitalis with a 490 kb genome, discovered 2002 at Iceland's Kolbeinsey Ridge.
Nanobe
Nanobes are microscopic filaments 20 to 150 nanometers long, discovered in the 1990s in sandstone deep below the Australian seabed and proposed by University of Queensland researchers as a novel form of life.
Nanobeam electron diffraction
Nanobeam electron diffraction (NBED), also called nanobeam diffraction, is a transmission electron microscopy technique that measures lattice spacing, orientation, and strain from nanometer-sized regions, and underlies 4D-STEM.
Nanobiotechnology
Nanobiotechnology, also called bionanotechnology, applies the tools and principles of nanotechnology to biological systems at scales typically under 100 nanometers, enabling drug delivery, biosensors, and agricultural applications.
Nanocalorimetry
Nanocalorimetry is a calorimetric technique that measures heat capacities and phase transitions in nanogram to microgram samples using micromachined MEMS sensors, with heating rates up to 10⁶ K/s.
Nanocapsules
Nanocapsules are hollow 10-200 nm core-shell nanoparticles with a liquid or gaseous core inside a thin polymer or lipid shell, used for triggered drug delivery, cosmetics, food, and agrochemical encapsulation.
Nanocar
A molecular nanocar is a single synthetic molecule with wheels, axles, and a chassis that rolls across a surface; the first, at Rice University, dates to 2005.
Nanocar Race
The Nanocar Race is an international scientific competition in which teams drive single-molecule nanocars across a gold surface with a microscope tip, first held in 2017.
Nanocellulose
Nanocellulose is a nanomaterial of cellulose fibers with nanometer-scale dimensions, valued for combining low density, high strength, and flexibility, with uses in packaging and drug delivery.
Nanoceria
Nanoceria, also written CNPs, are nanoscale cerium dioxide nanoparticles whose mixed Ce³⁺ and Ce⁴⁺ surface states give reversible redox-cycling ability, used as industrial catalysts and studied as antioxidant enzyme mimics in medicine.
Nanocomposite
A nanocomposite is a solid made of two or more phase-separated materials in which at least one phase, the nanophase, has dimensions in the nanoscale, roughly 1 to 100 nm.
Nanoconjugates
Nanoconjugates are tailored macromolecules with covalently attached biologically active modules such as drugs, antibodies, and oligonucleotides that target specific tissues and cells, distinct from encapsulating nanocarriers like liposomes.
Nanocore
NanoCore is a modular remote access trojan for Windows, built on .NET and first sold in underground forums in 2013, giving operators remote desktop, keylogging, and password recovery.
Nanocrystal drug delivery
Nanocrystal drug delivery is a formulation approach in which poorly water-soluble drug crystals are reduced to nanometer size and stabilized with surfactants or polymers, raising dissolution rate and bioavailability.
Nanocrystal memristor
A nanocrystal memristor is a memristive device whose resistive-switching layer is a thin film of crystalline nanoparticles, such as quantum dots or halide perovskite nanocrystals, between two electrodes.
Nanocrystal thermoelectric materials
Nanocrystal thermoelectric materials are thermoelectric materials built from 1 to 100 nm crystalline grains; nanoscale interfaces scatter heat-carrying phonons, raising the efficiency figure of merit ZT.
Nanocrystalline high-entropy alloys
Nanocrystalline high-entropy alloys (NC HEAs) are high-entropy alloys, metallic materials combining five or more principal elements, whose grains are smaller than about 100 nanometers; their central challenge is thermal stability.
Nanocrystalline metals
Nanocrystalline metals are metals and alloys with grain sizes below 100 nm, first synthesized by Herbert Gleiter in 1981, giving much higher strength than conventional metals.