A close-up of the microbial nanowires that could one day replace synthetic conductors. Any resemblance to a penis is purely coincidental. Image courtesy of UMass Amherst, Anna Klimes, and Ernie Carbone.
Elbert van Putten is a scientist and PhD candidate at the University of Twente in Enschede, Netherlands. The focus of his research is imaging with scattered light, which is a fancy way of saying makin’ pictures. Mark Tuominen is a professor of physics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Recently, he worked with a team of physicists and microbiologists who discovered that the bacterium
has the ability to conduct electricity and one day could replace boring old metal wires and batteries.
Geobacter sulfurrenducens
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