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Growing Wires In Water

Posted by timothy on from the trick-the-whole-swim-team dept.

moooooooo writes: "Australia's ABC is reporting that U.S. researchers have discovered a new way to grow microscopic electrical wires in water, and soon hope to be plugging into living cells. Kevin D. Hermanson and colleagues from the University of Delaware created self-assembling, self- repairing conductive wires -- a micrometre in diameter and 5 mm in length -- by suspending gold particles in water between two electrodes."

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  1. Marketing by Man+of+E · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    It could also detect chemicals, which would be useful in chemical warfare as well as biological analysis.

    They need to market this as technology for personal anthrax detectors. Plenty of coverage there...
    "Yeah, we only need a few more years to develop it. Uh, huh."

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