Cloaking Bacteria in MOFs (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Cloaking Bacteria in MOFs

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A 2D MOF wraps around the bacteria to form a soft cloak that expands as the bacteria grow and split. The MOF protects them from oxygen, the reverse of a spacesuit, which protects astronauts from the airlessness of space.

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Peidong Yang lab, UC Berkeley

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