Engineering Live Biofilms
June 17, 2014 | Terry Sharrer
Since Roman times, chemists have known that colloidal gold particles in glass have unusual optical features—which became part of Medieval stained glassmaking. Quantum dots—nano-sized silicon crystals—were also discovered in glass-making more recently, but now researchers at MIT have found a way to combine these nanoparticles possessing optical, electronic and molecular recognition properties with biofilms from live bacteria, which may have highly important applications in self healing materials, medical devices and diagnostic sensors. MORE
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