nanoeskala

Structures with a length scale applicable to nanotechnology, usually cited as 1–100 nanometers. The nanoscale is a lower bound to the mesoscopic scale for most solids.

For technical purposes, the nanoscopic scale is the size at which fluctuations in the averaged properties, due to the motion and behavior of individual particles, begin to have a significant effect (often a few percent) on the behaviour of a system, and must be taken into account in its analysis. Therefore, if these fluctuations affect the behaviour of the system, the solid being studied is said to have a nanometric scale.