Nanotube-producing Bacteria Show Manufacturing Promise

Two engineers at the University of California, Riverside are part of a binational team that has found **semiconducting nanotubes** produced by living **bacteria** – a discovery that could help in the creation of a new generation of **nanoelectronic devices**. The research team believes this is the first time nanotubes have been shown to be produced by biological rather than chemical means. It opens the door to the possibility of cheaper and more environmentally friendly manufacture of electronic materials. Study results appear in today's issue of the early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "University of California, Riverside":[ http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=1730]

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