... tra-jectoryofalacrosseballbasedonitsmassandvelocity,thepullofgravity,andtheresistanceoftheair.Ifthelacrosseballsplashesintoapond,itsnaltrajectoryalsowillreectthebuoyancyofthewater.Otherfactors,however,caninuencethemovementofamoleculeorcertainnanoparticles. ... leastonedimension.Asaresultofthissmallsize,thephysicalandchemicalpropertiesofnanoparticles can differ from those of the same material in bulk form. The smallersize means that the relative surface area of the particle is larger and therefore ... caninteractwiththemincrease.Dependingontheirsize,nanoscalegoldparticlescanbepurple,green,orange,orred[10].Similarly,zincoxide—notoriousforcoatinglifeguards’noseswhiteagenerationago—becomestransparentatthenanoscale.Theseexamplesillustratesomeofthewaysinwhichthesmallsizeofsomenanoparticlescanaffecttheirbehaviorandproperties.Itisthesechangesinpropertiesrelative to those of the corresponding...