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'Cooking' Carbon Nanotubes Like Spaghetti

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tastes-like-liquid-polymer dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Scientists from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a technique to force a variety of enzymes to self-assemble layer-by-layer on carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with the help of noodle-like polymer molecules. In 'A biosensor layered like lasagna,' the researchers say that this technique can be applied to a wide range of applications. In particular, it will be possible to build other biosensors "that react specifically with other biological chemicals, environmental agents or even microbes." Read more for additional details and the most spectacular scientific image of the month."

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  1. This kind of reminds me... by Statecraftsman · · Score: 2, Insightful

    of a lint collector. It seems like we're always hearing about technologies that will make better biological sensors. You'd think by now we could pee in a cup to know if we had trace amounts of cancer already. I'm hoping and praying that the next article I read like this says "Nanotube Cancer Bio-sensor Debuts on Amazon" but I'm not holding my breath.

  2. Re:Another money-making scheme by 1u3hr · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Are we really, as a community, this simple-minded to be taken in by pyramid schemes like this?

    It's not the "community" that selects the stories. It's the editorial staff. They don't care that Roland is a parasite. When they deign to notice comments like this on Roland's stories stuffed with his links to his own "blog", they tend to mod them to invisibility.