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June 27, 2012 01:55 pm PDT
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Genetically-evolved semiconductors
Researchers have "evolved" new semiconducting structures in a process that could someday lead to higher-performing computer chips. The UC Santa Barbara bio/nano-engineers amplified the DNA of silicateins, the proteins that guide the formation of marine sponges' silica skeletons. The natural mutations produced by that process resulted in silicateins genetically encoded to produce different templates for [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/7KZs6ECVdsQ/genetically-evolved-semiconduc.html
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