Thought for the month
"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen"
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. 1870 – 1924
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Glow worms
Nature can be truly wonderful. A recent paper in Nature Nanotechnology might have the potential to replace
epitaxy with worm excrement. The team at King’s College London put cadmium
chloride and sodium tellurite in the soil eaten by standard, wild earthworms.
Amazingly through processes in their guts the worms created nanometre
diameter-sized luminescence dots of cadmium telluride. Worms excreting quantum
dots could be both a whole new approach to making semiconductors. Probably not
a good idea to try to up-scale this technique with research students.
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