Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Department of
Gilded bacteria sense moisture
Document Type Article
This news article was published in Chemical& Engineering News, October 24, 2005, Volume 83, Number 43 p. 48.Copyright © 2006 American Chemical Society. Visit Chemical & Engineering News
Abstract
Chemical engineers at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, have designed and fabricated a humidity sensor made from living bacteria and gold nanoparticles (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 6668). Vikas Berry and Ravi F. Saraf prepared the hybrid nanoelectronic device by depositing gram-positive bacteria on a silicon substrate with lines of gold electrodes.
This paper has been withdrawn.