Conducting Properties in Bacterial Nanowires Discovered
Sunday, August 7, 2011 - 13:00
in Physics & Chemistry
The discovery of a fundamental, previously unknown property of microbial nanowires in the bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens allowing electron transport across long distances could revolutionize nanotechnology and bioelectronics, say UMass physicists and microbiologists in Nature Nanotechnology.