nanofibrillar en · ADJ
Etymology
From nano- + fibrillar.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Relating to or composed of nanofibrils.
Within this region, we find a transition from nanofibrillar aggregation to irregular early-nacre layers, to well-ordered mature nacre suggesting the assembly process is driven by aggregation of nanoparticles (~50-80 nm) within an organic matrix that arrange in fiber-like polycrystalline configurations.
2015, Robert Hovden, Stephan E. Wolf, Megan E. Holtz, Frédéric Marin, David A. Muller, Lara A. Estroff, “Nanoscale assembly processes revealed in the nacroprismatic transition zone of Pinna nobilis mollusc shells”, in Nature Communications, volume 6: