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Harvesting Gold Nanoparticles WIth Alfalfa Plants

Posted by timothy on from the buckwheat's-next dept.

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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  1. First post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You're dumb.

  2. Re:Oops... by Tom7 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Um, nope! I don't think I'm a troll or an asshole, but I do sometimes have unpopular opinions...