Biocamera uses bacteria as film
Filed in archive Materials by george elvin on December 12, 2005

And while you won' t find bacteria-based film at your local camera shop anytime soon, it does have important implications for nanomanufacturing. Principal investigator Chris Voigt says that the same precisely directed light that created the image at left (courtesy Chris Voigt) could also be used to guide the manufacture of nanomaterials in a nano-factory, where, as he says, " the bacteria could weave a complex material. " Harry Kroto, the Nobel prize-winning discoverer of buckminsterfullerene, or buckyballs, concurs, calling Voigt' s biocamera an " extremely exciting advance. "
"I have always thought, " says Kroto, " that the first major nanotechnology advances would involve some sort of chemical modification of biology
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