Harvesting Gold Nanoparticles WIth Alfalfa Plants

Rocky Mudbutt writes: "An international research team from the University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP) and Mexico advanced the work at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL). Ordinary alfalfa plants are being used as miniature gold factories that one day could provide the nanotechnology industry with a continuous harvest of gold nanoparticles. Alfalfa extracts gold from the medium and stores it in the form of nanoparticles -- specks of gold less than a billionth of a meter across according to a press release from Stanford Linear Accelerator Center."

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[Anonymous Coward]

They're not implying that it's amazing that alfalfa can do it. They're doing the research because using plants to acquire gold nanoparticles is a lot cleaner than using chemicals.