Research team discovers new conducting properties of bacteria-produced wires
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 that allows electron transport across long distances could revolutionize nanotechnology and bioelectronics, says a team of physicists and microbiologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.