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Wired by viruses

9 April 2006 No Comment

“We use viruses to synthesize and assemble nanowires of cobalt oxide at room temperature,” the researchers wrote.

The international team of researchers, led by a group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, used the M13 virus, a simple and easily manipulated virus. [source]

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