Many properties unique to nanoparticles are related specifically to the particles’ size. It is therefore natural that efforts have been made to capture some of those properties by incorporating nanoparticles into composite materials. An example of how the unique properties of nanoparticles have been put to use in a nanocomposite material is the modern rubber tire, which typically is a composite of a rubber (an elastomer) and an inorganic filler (a reinforcing particle), such as carbon black or silica nanoparticles