<I>Geobacter pili</I> (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

<I>Geobacter pili</I>

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UMass Amherst researchers recently provided stronger evidence than ever before to support their claim that the microbe <i>Geobacter</i> produces tiny electrical wires, called microbial nanowires, along which electric charges propagate just as they do in carbon nanotubes, a highly conductive man-made material.

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