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Nanowire solar cells

Nanowire solar cells are photovoltaic devices whose light-absorbing semiconductor is shaped as micrometer-long wires or pillars, reducing reflection and material use; III–V designs reached 17.8% efficiency.

Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam (നൻപകൽ നേരത്ത് മയക്കം)

Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam (നൻപകൽ നേരത്ത് മയക്കം), English title Like an Afternoon Dream, is a 2022 Malayalam-Tamil bilingual drama by Lijo Jose Pellissery starring Mammootty as James, who wakes from a nap behaving as the missing villager Sundaram; it won the 53rd Kerala State Film Award for Best Film.

Oct 20, 2026

Nanping, Fujian

Nanping (南平), or Minbei, is Fujian's largest prefecture-level city by area (26,300 km²) at the Fujian–Zhejiang–Jiangxi junction and Min River headwaters; its 2025 GDP was 218.97 billion yuan, and it hosts Wuyishan National Park.

Nanpō Islands

The Nanpō Islands (南方諸島, Nanpō Shotō, "Southern Islands") are the volcanic Japanese island groups stretching about 1,200 km south from Tokyo Bay: the Izu, Ogasawara (Bonin), and Kazan (Volcano) Islands.

Oct 15, 2026

Nanpu power station

Nanpu power station, also known as Nanpu Power Plant (南部发电厂), is a natural-gas-fired combined cycle power station in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, owned by Taiwan Power Company with a capacity of 1,117.8 MW.

Oct 15, 2026

Nanpu Quanzhou power station

Nanpu Quanzhou power station (南埔电厂), also listed as Guoneng Quanzhou, is a 1,940 MW coal-fired combined heat and power station in Quanzhou, Fujian, China, on Meizhou Bay.

Nanqiao

Nanqiao (南桥镇, Nánqiáo Zhèn) is a town of about 361,000 people in Fengxian District, Shanghai, and the district seat. Historic Fengxian county seat (1726 to 1731, again from 1912); core of Fengxian New Town on Metro Line 5.

Sep 23, 2026

Nanquan Puyuan

Nanquan Puyuan (南泉普願, 748–834) was a Tang dynasty Chan Buddhist monk and Dharma heir of Mazudaoyi, known for thirty years of seclusion on Nanquan Mountain and for the case Nanquan kills the cat.

NANS-CDG

NANS-CDG (OMIM#605202), N-acetylneuraminic acid synthase deficiency, is a rare autosomal recessive congenital disorder of glycosylation causing intellectual disability, short limbs, skeletal dysplasia, thrombocytopenia, and elevated urinary ManNAc; experimental oral sialic acid therapy is under study.

Nansana

Nansana is a municipality in Wakiso District, Uganda, 9.6 km from Kampala on the Kampala–Hoima Road; created 9 September 2015 with four divisions and a 2024 census population of 692,478.

Nansen (lunar crater)

Nansen is a 116.90 km old lunar impact crater near the Moon's north pole, named for Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen and IAU-approved in 1964; satellite craters Nansen E and F include a permanently shadowed region.

Nansen (Martian crater)

Nansen is an impact crater in Mars' southern hemisphere, about 74.6-81 km across, centered near 49.9 degrees south, 219.6 degrees east; named for Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen and approved by the IAU in 1967.

Nansen Basin

Nansen Basin: southern abyssal sub-basin of the Eurasia Basin, Arctic Ocean, between the Gakkel Ridge and the Barents-Kara margin; ultra-slow spreading origin, sediments up to 4.5 km, Atlantic Water inflow.

Nansen Island

Nansen Island (Isla Nansen Sur) is the largest island in Wilhelmina Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica, at 64°35'S 62°05'W. Discovered and named Île Nansen by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache (1897-99) for Fridtjof Nansen; distinct from the Nansen Island in Franz Josef Land, Russia.

Oct 15, 2026

Nanshan Aluminum Donghai power station

Nanshan Aluminum Donghai power station (南山铝业东海热电厂), also called the Donghai Thermal Power Plant, is a coal-fired captive power station in Longkou, Shandong, China, supplying Nanshan's aluminum production complex.

Sep 23, 2026

Nanshan Vinaya school

The Nanshan Vinaya school (南山律宗) was a Tang-dynasty school of Buddhist monastic law founded by Daoxuan (596–667), based on the Four-part Vinaya at Zhongnan Mountain near Chang'an.

Nanshe

Nanshe (南社, "Southern Society") was a Chinese literary society founded in 1909 in Suzhou that used classical poetry to advocate the anti-Qing revolution, dissolving in 1923.

Nanshe Catena

Nanshe Catena, a crater chain (catena) on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, IAU-approved 1997, named for the Assyro-Babylonian goddess daughter of Enki; elongated bright-ray crater with six aligned pits from a split projectile.

Nanshe Congke

Nanshe Congke (南社叢刻, Nanshe Congkan) was the official organ of the Nanshe literary society, publishing members' poetry, prose, and ci lyrics in 22 collections from 1910 to 1923.

Nanshi

The Nanshi (南史) is an official Chinese history covering the four southern dynasties from 420 to 589, compiled by Li Yanshou and completed in 659.

Nanshin-ron

Nanshin-ron (南進論, "southward advance theory") was imperial Japan's doctrine advocating expansion toward Southeast Asia and the Pacific rather than the Asian continent, shaping policy until it led Japan into the Pacific War in 1941.

Nansō Satomi Hakkenden

Nansō Satomi Hakkenden (南総里見八犬伝) is a long Japanese romance novel by Kyokutei Bakin, published in 106 booklets between 1814 and 1842 and following the Eight Dog Warriors of the Satomi clan.

Nanstallon

Nanstallon Roman Fort, near Bodmin, Cornwall: a small Roman auxiliary fort occupied about AD 65-79, excavated 1965-69 by Fox and Ravenhill, with rare double gates, built to oversee mineral extraction.

Nansuke

Nansuke (ナンスケ, Number Skeleton) is a Nikoli grid logic puzzle: fit a list of multi-digit numbers into blank cells, reading across or down, once each; harder than Keisuke because it gives no hints.

Nantaisan

Nantaisan (男体山, Mount Nantai) is a 2,486 m conical stratovolcano at Lake Chuzenji, Nikko, Japan, on the NE Japan volcanic front; its largest eruption ~17 ka, latest ~7 ka, sacred Futarasan Shrine mountain.

NantBio

NantBio, also known as NantBioScience, Inc., is a private biopharmaceutical company in Culver City, California, founded in 2013 by Patrick Soon-Shiong to develop molecularly targeted cancer therapies.

NantCell, Inc.

NantCell, Inc. was a Culver City, California cancer immunotherapy biotechnology company formed in 2014 by Patrick Soon-Shiong's NantWorks to develop antibody and cell-based cancer treatments, and was acquired by ImmunityBio in 2020.

Nanterre

Nanterre, prefecture of the Hauts-de-Seine department west of Paris, France; about 97,800 inhabitants, home of Université Paris Nanterre, the Sainte-Geneviève cathedral, and the birthplace of the 1968 movement, bordering La Défense.

Nantes

Nantes, Loire-Atlantique prefecture on the Loire in western France, historical capital of Brittany now in Pays de la Loire; 327,734 inhabitants (2023), former French slave-trade capital, shipbuilding-turned-services economy, tram network and Île de Nantes renewal.