Nanotech Gadgets to Be Built by Algae?
March 30, 2005 | Source: National Geographic News
Oregon State University researchers hope to use the diatom algaie’s shell-building process to manufacture nanotech materials, incorporating elements such as silicon, germanium, titanium, and gallium into the diatoms’ silica shells.
Products may include flexible computer screens, cheap and efficient solar cells, filtration devices, and drug delivery vehicles that can target, for example, a single cancer cell.