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.

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