Sentences with phrase «bacterial nanowires»
Structure of the Type IVa Major Pilin from the Electrically Conductive Bacterial Nanowires of Geobacter sulfurreducens, J. Biol.
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Dr. El - Naggar has increased our understanding of electron transfer focusing on bacterial nanowires, and is working to develop new nanomaterials and tools for energy conversion.
At the same time, researchers are studying how to couple these bacterial nanowires to inorganic or organic nonliving things.
«Bacterial nanowires: «Electric bacteria» not what we thought they were.»
Scientists had long suspected that bacterial nanowires were pili — Latin for «hair» — which are hair - like features common on other bacteria, allowing them to adhere to surfaces and even connect to one another.
«There is nothing known that could explain it but bacterial nanowires,» Reguera says.
Not exact matches
Gadgetry out of Rogers» lab has included everything from wireless electronic implants that fight a bacterial infection and then disappear, to stretchable batteries made of tiny nanowires arranged to resemble an accordion's bellows.
And by staining the bacterial membrane, periplasm, cytoplasm, and specific proteins, researchers were able to take video of the nanowires reaching out — confirming that they were based on membrane, and not pili at all.
By combining biocompatible light - capturing nanowire arrays with select bacterial populations, a potentially game - changing new artificial photosynthesis system offers a win / win situation for the environment: solar - powered green chemistry using sequestered carbon dioxide.
By combining biocompatible light - capturing nanowire arrays with select bacterial populations, the new artificial photosynthesis system offers a win / win situation for the environment: solar - powered green chemistry using sequestered carbon dioxide.