NIST-made 'sun and rain' used to study nanoparticle release from polymers Washington DC (SPX) Oct 05, 2016 - If the 1967 film "The Graduate" were remade today, Mr. McGuire's famous advice to young Benjamin Braddock would probably be updated to "Plastics ... with nanoparticles." These days, the mechanical, electrical and durability properties of polymers - the class of materials that includes plastics - are often enhanced by adding miniature particles (smaller than 100 nanometers or billionths of a mete ... more

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