WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, Sept. 3 -- The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory issued the following news: Researchers at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base are seeking to patent a novel process for manufacturing a type of material called preceramic polymer-grafted nanoparticles, or "hairy nanoparticles" (HNP). An HNP is a hybrid material consisting of a polymer shell bound to a solid nanoparticle core. The polymer - a chain of repeating molecules - forms the "hair" around the nanoparticle, which i  more