Many of nanoparticles' unusual properties come from the fact that they have a high surface area to volume ratio. The surface of a nanoparticle is more important than its volume – ultimately it is all surface and no volume – this is a major factor in explaining why these tiny objects behave in strange ways. This large surface area makes them highly reactive and therefore tailorable to different uses. If we humans had a higher surface to volume ratio our skin (an interfacial structure) would be our dominant reactive organ – and the environments we were in would have a profound controlling effect on us, e.g. we might not be able to leave a room of our own free will, we'd have to be pulled out or bundled out at the behest of the objects around us and the intervening medium. Aggregation (grouping tightly together) would be one way of overcoming this problem – it would lower the surface to volume ratio.
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